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HUMAN
TRAFFICKING
NOT IN MY
NEIGHBORHOOD
Human Trafficking
Around the World
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Spiritual Growth
• Awakening to the reality of human trafficking is
essential for spiritual growth. True awakening breaks
our hearts open. Then love is possible.
• Acting on the loving impulse to eradicate trafficking
can change the world. Knowing the truth can help set
the prisoners free.
• Jesus spent his ministry serving those forgotten by
his culture. We must also serve those the world has
forgotten.
Litany About
United Methodist
Women
United Methodist Women
members are:
• Followers of Jesus Christ who live their faith
through acts of justice and mercy.
United Methodist Women
members are:
• Catalysts for needed change.
United Methodist Women
members are:
• Mobilizers of human and material resources.
United Methodist Women
members are:
• Creators of new areas of participation
throughout the church and the world.
What Is Human Trafficking?
• Modern-day slavery—the process of enslaving a
person.
• The recruiting, transporting, and harboring of
persons by use of threat, force or deception for the
purpose of exploitation.
• Laws vary from country to country regarding human
trafficking. In the United States anyone under 18
practicing prostitution is considered a trafficking
victim.
• 80 percent of trafficked people are women and
children. 50 percent of trafficked people are under
18 years of age.
Types of Modern Slavery
• Bonded labor, forced labor and child labor.
• Chattel slavery—those bought and sold.
• Sexual exploitation—commercial sex and
forced marriage.
Bonded Labor
• Most common form of enslavement today.
• Accounts for 20 million of the world’s slaves.
• Begins when a loan is made and a person is
held as collateral against the loan. The
person’s labor is payback for the loan, and
because the lender determines the loan’s
worth the laborer works indefinitely.
Bonded Labor (continued)
• This system is found mainly in South Asia and
India. A $40 debt can trap a person for life.
• Some migrant workers in the United States
have fallen victim to bonded labor. They
borrow money to come to the United States
for better jobs and acquire H-2 workers visas
only to have their papers taken by their
employers when they arrive.
Bonded Labor (continued)
• Bonded laborers are forced to work to pay
back their expenses. The Florida Panhandle is
another prime area for this.
• Child labor is a form of bonded labor.
• Victims of bonded labor can be found in
sweatshops, commercial agriculture (fields,
processing plants, canneries), domestic
situations (maids, nannies), construction sites,
and restaurant and custodial work.
Chattel
• Persons who are bought and sold. One person
assumes complete legal ownership over
another.
• Chattel slavery exists today primarily in
Mauritania and other parts of Northern Africa,
where slavery is technically illegal but law
enforcement does not prosecute slave
owners.
Sexual Exploitation
• Sexual slavery is the fastest growing and most
hideous form of modern day human bondage.
• Only drug trafficking brings in more illegal
revenue to criminals than human and arms
trafficking.
• The CIA and U.S. State Department estimate
that over 50,000 women and children are
trafficked into the United States each year.
Sexual Exploitation (continued)
• An estimated 40,000 women and young girls
from Burma are forced into the sex industry in
Thailand each year.
• A 2005 UNICEF report estimated that 1.2
million children are sold into sexual slavery
every year. The United Nations International
Labor Organization reports this number as 4
million.
Sexual Exploitation (continued)
• Sexual tourism has increased in countries such
as Thailand, where 7.3 million unaccompanied
men visit the country annually.
• 65 percent of all tourists to Cambodia are
men. According to World Vision, one-fourth of
them travel with the express purpose of
having sex with young girls.
Sexual Exploitation (continued)
• Sexual tourism feeds the beast of sexual
slavery.
• Prostitution is not a victimless crime.
• Victims of sexual exploitation can be found in
massage parlors, escort services, adult
bookstores, modeling studios, and bars and
strip clubs.
• How can men help stop sexual trafficking?
January 11, 2011, is
Human Trafficking
Awareness Day
Slavery Statistics
• An estimated 27 million people live as slaves
today. This is more five times the population
of Ireland.
• In 1850 in Mississippi an agricultural slave cost
the equivalent of $50,000 to $100,000 at
today’s prices. An equivalent slave in India in
1999 cost just $90.
Slavery Statistics (continued)
• In India and Nepal, a person can be trapped
into a lifetime of hard labor just to pay the
interest on as little as $36.
• In one area of southern Sudan, 3,000 children
from the Christian population of 150,000 were
abducted during 1998 to work as laborers.
Slavery Statistics (continued)
• Slavery was legally abolished in the British
Empire in 1838, in the United States in 1865,
in Brazil in 1888, in Burma in 1929, in Saudi
Arabia in 1962 and in Mauritania in 1980;
however, slavery still exists in all of these
areas.
Slavery Statistics (continued)
• In 2005, about 14 percent of Haiti’s under-18
population were used as restaveks, children
working as domestic slaves. These children
often receive only one meal each day. Read
the book Life is Tough: Children in Domestic
Labor in Haiti by Barbara McClatiche Andrews.
Personal Stories
• Take a few minutes and read your personal
trafficking story.
• When everyone at your table is finished
reading, share your stories with one another.
• Each table will select one story to share with
the large group.
Sharing of Stories
• Which example of modern slavery did your
story show: bonded labor, chattel or sexual
exploitation?
• Where is the person in your story from? To
where was he or she trafficked?
• Who recognized the situation as trafficking?
Who shared the person’s story?
• What about the person’s circumstances made
him or her a target for trafficking?
Documentary:
Stolen Childhoods
• View Stolen Childhoods, written, produced
and directed by Len Morris and co-directed by
Robin Romano.
Stolen Childhoods
• What types of slavery were shown in the
video?
• Why does slavery still exist?
• What industries use child labor?
• What is microfinance? How could it help end
bonded labor?
• How do you unknowingly support these forms
of slavery?
How did you support the
slave trade today?
Some Industries
That Support Slavery
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Gold mining
Diamond mining
Mahogany and steel producers
Fireworks
Chocolate
Carpet producers
Sport equipment manufacturers (e.g., soccer balls)
Service industry
Agriculture
Commercial sex industry
Suggested Reading
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The Road of Lost Innocence by Somaly Mam
Free the Children by Craig Kielburger
Not For Sale by David Batstone
The Slave Next Door by Kevin Bales
The True Cost of Low Prices by Vincent A.
Gallagher
Online Resources
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www.unitedmethodistwomen.org
www.faastinternational.org
www.freetheslaves.net
www.polarisproject.org
www.state.gov/g/tip
www.gems-girls.org
www.sharedhope.org
www.traffickingresourcecenter.org
www.womenforpeaceinternational.org
www.endhumantraffickingnow.com
www.protectionproject.org
World Map
• Using the straight pins on your table, place
pins on the world map on locations where you
have traveled or lived.
• View the following two maps and compare the
concentration of pins to the concentration of
trafficking in the same areas.
World Map (continued)
• Foreigners are trafficked into the United States
from at least 35 countries but most often from
China, Mexico and Vietnam.
• What steps can be taken to eliminate human
trafficking to and within the United States?
• Why are undocumented workers easier
victims?
Quiz Review
• Pull out your quizzes from the beginning of
the session.
• Compare your answers as a group and discuss
any differences. Find answers for questions
still unanswered.
Bible Study
• As a table choose one facilitator to lead the
“Human Trafficking Awareness and Action”
Bible study by Glory E. Dharmaraj (provided)
• Together study Judges 19:1-30: Woman From
Bethlehem using the provided guidelines.
Documentary:
Not for Sale
• View Not for Sale, based on the book Not For
Sale by David Batstone, produced and directed
by Robert Marcarelli.
Activity
• Take time to create refrigerator magnets on
which the National Human Trafficking
Resource Center phone number will be
written: 1-888-373-7888.
• Use this time to reflect on what you’ve
learned so far.
Indicators of Trafficking
• Live on or near work premises.
• Large number of occupants for living space.
• Lack of private space, personal possessions
and financial records.
• Kept under surveillance when out in the
community. Trafficker may act as a translator.
• Bouncers, guards or guard dogs present.
Indicators of
Trafficking(continued)
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Signs of torture (e.g., cigarette burns).
Brands or scarring indicating ownership.
Signs of malnourishment.
Signs of rape or sexual abuse.
Sexually transmitted diseases
Posttraumatic stress or poor psychological
health.
• Other untreated medical problems.
Indicators of
Trafficking(continued)
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Large amounts of cash and condoms.
Customer receipt book.
Sparse rooms.
Men come and go frequently.
Barred windows, locked doors, isolated
location, electronic surveillance. Women
never leave unescorted.
What You Can Do
• Join the United Methodist Women Social
Action Network:
www.unitedmethodistwomen.org/act/networ
k.
• Be aware. Ask and act.
• Research, rescue and restore.
• List what you plan to do in your town and
share your plan with others
What You Can Do (continued)
• Buy fair trade.
• Support education and business opportunities
for women and girls.
• Report suspected human trafficking to the
U.S. Department of Justice 1-888-428-7581.
• Host a training session on the topic of sexual
trafficking.
What You Can Do (continued)
• Write articles and Op-Ed pieces for local
papers and church newsletters about the need
to abolish slavery and reaffirm the inherent,
God-given dignity of the human race.
• Arrange a screening of the films Stolen
Childhoods, Girls Are Not for Sale, and The
Dark Side of Chocolate in your church or
community center.
What You Can Do (continued)
• Join the United Methodist Women in their
Intercept the Traffickers campaign
(www.unitedmethodistwomen.org/act) by
printing the downloadable fliers and hanging
them in designated public places and handing
them out at meetings, get-togethers and at
Super Bowl parties. Send the bulletin to your
pastor or church secretary to include in the
bulletin on Super Bowl Sunday.
Call the National Human
Trafficking Resource Center
to report human trafficking:
1-888-373-7888
Closing Worship
• The Starfish Story, adapted from The Star
Thrower by Loren Eiseley (New York: Harcourt,
1978).
Silent Prayer
• Reflecting on your personal story of human
trafficking and other information you’ve
learned, take silent time to pray for the
persons who touched your heart today.
• Pray for the victims of human trafficking and
the strength and knowledge to help end it.
Closing Prayer
Closing prayer based on the crippled woman in
Luke 13:10-13.
May the Lord watch between you and me while
we are absent one from the other. Amen.