Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking in Cuba. Authorities report that young people from 13 to 20 years old are most vulnerable to human trafficking in Cuba. Cuba is principally a source of women and children trafficked within the country for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. Some Cuban families push their children into prostitution, exchanging sex for money, food, or gifts. Cuban people voluntary migrate illegally to the United States, and there have been some reports that some are forced to labor and prostitution secretly. The government of Cuba does not fully act in accordance with a wish or command with the minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking, and is not making any efforts to do so. …show more content…
Government authorities are blinded to this exploitation because such thing helps to win hard currency for state-run business. Opponents of the Cuban Government are often arrested under the crime of "certain danger", are forced to carry out state-run construction and agricultural labor that benefits the state. Workers are forced to work on foreign investment or government priority project without a good compensation, which is retained by the state and children are forced to perform agricultural work. The Government of Cuba does not fully accomplish with the minimum standard for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so. The Cuban Government does not acknowledge that its tourism institutions are involved in the sexual trafficking of children; it does not acknowledge that it participates in forced labor trafficking. The Cuban Government does not acknowledge a human trafficking problem, but does acknowledge the existence of prostitution. The Government carries no public awareness to warn of
Haiti decided to take action in 2014 by enacting a law that imprisons human traffickers for up to 15 years. Since the law has been enacted, no human traffickers have be charged. Today, the more successful and productive efforts are a result of organizations across the world fighting against human trafficking. According to the 2014 Global Slavery Index, over 14 million adults and children are caught in the cruel practice of slavery. The way that most people are forced in to slavery in India starts with debt.
Human trafficking is the fastest growing crime in the entire world and is considered modern day slavery. Almost 80% of trafficking is through sexual exploitation, which means that it primarily affects women and girls (UNODC, 2009). Victims are often tricked into the business through promise of work or a better life and sometimes just randomly stolen right from their homes. However, this is not just an issue overseas. Michigan is listed as the state with the second highest rates of human trafficking.
This book discusses the flaws that America has when talking about human trafficking, as well as the shortcomings within the Justice System regarding procedures, policies, and prosecution, and outcomes for human trafficking victims. The book opens with stating the amount of money made within human trafficking and then continues to add on from this topic about the amount of people being trafficked. These two factors then let the author continue to discuss the errors and inequities within the Justice System as well as the overall lack of intervention and support to help people who are being trafficked.
Nickolai Oakley ES 213 Chicano and Latino Studies Cuban Migration Growing up in southern Florida, every child, regardless of heritage, ethnicity, or race is familiar with the sound of Spanish, some schools even require all students to study the language. But, despite Florida’s population of more than 1 million Cubans, and their migrations’ deep ties to Florida’s history, Cuba didn’t exist to my textbooks in elementary school, which instead focused on the Western canon. In other words, those textbooks focused only on the European and North American body of work and history, that they decided is of merit (Ethnic Studies: Critique of Western Canon). Unfortunately, this is only one of the ways the United States attitudes disenfranchise Cuban people
With this being said, it is clear that women and young girls are typically the most at risk when it comes to commercial sexual exploitation. In this category of trafficking, traffickers act as “pimps” and sell these women like prostitutes. These victims are made to perform sexual favors to make their captor or captors a profit. Most of these crimes go unseen and
“According to the most recent of the annual country reports released by the U.S. State Department, “child prostitution and other abuses of children, trafficking in persons are among the criminal and social problems occurring in the Dominican Republic” (Caribbean Events). Prostitution in the Dominican is legal, however child prostitution is illegal as it should be. The same article also states that “The Dominican Republic’s proximity to the United States and Europe, and its inexpensive travel packages, have made it a favored spot for sex tourism” (Caribbean Events). Violence with young children has also been a problem in the Dominican Republic.
In the United States, human trafficking has taken on different forms than what is normally thought of as human trafficking. It can range from a migrant laborer wanting to get a job to be able to support his family to survive who is then forced into manipulative work to a child running away to get away from abuse that is happening at home and the person that is helping the child get away from the abusive situation at home turns out to be exploiting him or her to make a profit (Farrell et al, 2014). According the International Labour Organization has estimated that 20.9 million people are involved in human trafficking in the whole world, with 1.5 million victims are in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe. In 2011, there were 3,969 convictions worldwide, and there were only 151 convictions in the United States.
Cuba right now is the only current country under communism in Latin America. Due to communism, the citizens of Cuba live in economic and political unrest. Many Cubans resort to fleeing from Cuba to escape their living conditions. For some people leaving is the only solution. In the book, Everyone Leaves, Wendy Guerra illustrates how hardships and or situations force people to leave.
It is the world’s fastest growing global crime that people are being bought, sold and smuggled for sexual exploitation, domestic servitude, bonded labour and even organ sacrifice ending up with death. The most tragic fact is 26% of the victims that are sucked into trafficking are children. In this violation of human rights’ grave, where persons have a price tag, anyone can be a victim. Human trafficking doesn’t discriminate on age, gender, race or religion. It is happening to humans, just like
The impact of children trafficking on the Children and their Communities presented “ It is very common that a majority of them quit schooling to work for their family’s survival.” This statement goes for older children. Obviously, the child wanted to support his or her family, but only found a job which he or she most likely did not know what it was about. “ Girls trafficked into prostitution are very unlikely to be provided with enough time and encouraging atmosphere to go to school, to study, or to develop other skills necessary for a career change,” said the Impact of children trafficking on the Children and their Communities. Because the girls do not have enough support or time they will most likely not want to study.
What is a child worth? Is the child aware of being sold into the hands of a trafficker? The United Nations Children 's Fund estimates that about 300,000 children from Haiti are victims of human trafficking. Children are young, naive and become unknowing victims. Using deceit, promises for a better life, and a child’s desperation traffickers can easily exploit.
Children in these countries are also victims to forced labor. Reports have revealed that that a child in Iran can be sold for as little as $150. These children are often sold by their parents because the parents need money Children are subjected to hard labor such as begging, drug trafficking and even organ trafficking. They are also subjected to this labor as young as three years old (“Inside Iran: The industry of child trafficking”
In china trafficking has many forms: purchasing for brides, purchasing male son, selling unwanted girls (female children), and using people for slave labour, prostitution or commercial sex. Mainly in rural areas of china, men are willingly seeking the brides from a country in which women are short in supply. And these men willingly married to trafficked women. Trafficking of boy children and women has become serious human violation in china. As per the report of TIP from U.S department “domestic trafficking is the most signi9ficant problem in china.”
There are relatively few publications and researches that address the nature and extent of human trafficking in the Kingston region. There is a slightly more established group of child protection research studies about prevention, assistance and protection programs that address children trafficking and related exploitation within Caribbean countries. This review of literature focuses on four main questions: What is human trafficking and to what extent does tourism impact human trafficking in Kingston. The steps are being taken to minimize the risk of human trafficking or what can be done to minimize the level of human trafficking among young women and children and whether or not is the openly free access given to visitors into the country without monitored supervision is somehow a contributing factor to human trafficking. Research articles and reports from non-government organizations, advocacy groups, governments and educators were
We are living in a world where one person has an absolute power over another. The groundless trade of human beings in today’s world shows a deteriorated state of affairs which confirms that the greatest moral challenge facing the globe today is human trafficking. It refers to illegal sale or trade of people for sexual abuse or forced labor through coercion or abducting people. Our world is facing from many obstacles created by natural and manmade disasters which further results in problems in every country’s economy and social welfare of every person is jeopardized and one of the problems faced by majority of the nations of this world due to economic downfall is human trafficking. It is one of the most atrocious human rights infringements commonly