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Post by RabbitWho on Apr 18, 2010 8:05:21 GMT -5
What is human trafficking?
Human trafficking is the coercion or abduction of humans in order to take them from their homes and bring them elsewhere, where they are forced to work without pay. Human trafficking is often referred to as “modern-day slavery.” 
How prevalent is it?More slaves exist today than in any other period in world history. It is estimated that there are currently 27 million slaves in the world, and as many as 800,000 new victims are trafficked each year. Who gets trafficked, and why?
As much as 80% of these slaves, which are mostly women and children, are sex slaves. Girls as young as five-years-old are forced into prostitution, and the average age of victims is 11. Young girls are often desired because it is a common belief in many countries that intercourse with a virgin can cure or ward off AIDS, or has some other sort of healing power. This means that many of the men hiring these girls are infected with AIDS, thus infecting the girls as well. Also, since virginity is so sought after, brothel owners may go as far as to sew and re-sew a young girl’s hymen several times in order to give the illusion of virginity so they can charge more for the girls. What happens to victims of human trafficking?These girls are tortured, raped, and drugged into submission. Disobedience to one’s captor has been known to result in punishments as severe as girls having their eyes gouged out, being shot, and having hot peppers stuffed up their vaginas. Because girls are tortured regularly, few even dream of escaping. Those that do escape often face corrupt police who rape them and return them to their brothels. Even those who do not face this and manage a complete escape from slavery sometimes return of their own free will because they have no skills and do not know how to live outside of a brothel, or they cannot overcome the drug addiction which the brothel owner forced upon them.
Where does it occur?
Many people believe that human trafficking only occurs in developing countries, but this is not true. The United States, German, Italy, Belgium, and other developed countries are some of the most common destinations for victims of human trafficking. For example, there are currently about 10,000 victims of human trafficking in the United States. You can find examples of victims of human trafficking all over the world at slaverymap.org/What can I do? You can learn more about human trafficking, and find ways to help here: www.somaly.org/ www.notforsalecampaign.org/More info: Also, the Nicholas Kristof, the guy in that video ^, wrote a book called “Half The Sky,” which talks a lot about human trafficking, and you should read it if you get the chance. -------------------------------------------- Article written by Chelsea. If I got anything wrong and you can correct me then pm me or post on this thread: here.If you would like to take part in the bi-weekly (or weekly) "What the flip is going on..." project by creating a post on an issue for this thread or would like to suggest a better name then pm me or post here.If you would like to ask any questions or discuss anything about Darfur then go here.Anything else and yeah, go here.The thread you are looking at right now is for the output of the "What the flip is going on" project only and absolutely everything else belongs elsewhere. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS THREAD!
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Post by RabbitWho on May 1, 2010 13:55:38 GMT -5
Darfur Genocide:
(sorry about the U2 song)
Where is Darfur?   What happened before it started?It's extremely complicated. What I can make out is that since 1500 society has been broken into two parts, the ruling Arabs and the remainder. The rulers generally felt superior and subjected the others to slavery. Essay on this: www.sais-jhu.edu/bin/k/q/jennifer-pekkinen-program-paper.pdfWho are the people involved? The Sudaneese Government and leader Al Bashir, their military and their own unofficial militia; the Janjaweed. Who work together to kill civilians and rebel groups.  Some rebel factions including the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) and many many civillians from the non arab class. To me it's worth noteing that now both the Arabs and non arabs are musilm and have the same skin colour.  When and how did it start? It broke out in early 2003 after the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) and Justice and Equality Movement (Jem) began attacking government targets, accusing the government of oppressing black Africans in favor of Arabs. Rights to water and land are key issues. How many people have died? somewhere between 200 000 and 400 000 dead but every website seems to give a different number. and 2.7 million displaced (Most living in camps in Chad) What is happening right now?Though there is officially a truce there are still many places the UN and others are simply not allowed to go. What has been done? There are thousands of peacekeepers in the region in a joint African Union-UN peacekeeping mission. Unicef and other charities are working there and in Chad in some of the camps and the orginisation of Save Darfur are campaigning with governments, spreading awareness and working towards forcing a diplomatic and peacefull solution.
The best way to end genocide and mass atrocities right now is with persistent, high-level diplomacy aimed at creating sustainable peace and laying the groundwork for a more secure future.  What can I do? You can donate to the Save Darfur orginisation here: www.savedarfur.org/You can donate to Doctors without Boarders: www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/allcontent.cfm?id=72You can spread the knowlage and awareness you have. You can write to the leaders of your country and let them know this is an issue for you. If you live in a country where politicians come knocking on your door for votes then you can be sure to ask them about this. You can suggest more ideas on how to help on this thread: (coming soon)
LinksExcellent 2010 FAQ by BBC: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3496731.stmYoutube videos: excellent 2007 documentary with details of life in the camps (upsetting): www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdR9SB4yPOoAnother 2007 "War for water": www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOxbMHsPRIo interesting because it investigates resourses as the root of the problem.
Euronews reports:Opptimisim about the election 2010: www.euronews.net/newswires/217377-elections-spark-new-fears-in-darfur-camps/(The UN later had to leave the polling stations because they said keeping the election fair and protecting the people was impossible) Information about Al-Bashir: www.euronews.net/2008/07/14/darfur-conflict-the-latest-in-al-bashir-s-military-career/Freeing of rebels in Febuary 2010 "War is over": www.euronews.net/2010/02/25/freeing-of-darfur-rebels-begins/
Unicef news from 2009: www.unicef.org/sowc/20297_30568.html
Global post:2009 Is the war over?: www.globalpost.com/dispatch/africa/090827/war-darfur-over-not-------------------------------------------- The biggest problem with this was finding up to date information. If I got anything wrong and you can correct me then pm me or post on this thread: here.If you would like to take part in the bi-weekly (or weekly) "What the flip is going on..." project by creating a post on an issue for this thread or would like to suggest a better name then pm me or post here.If you would like to ask any questions or discuss anything about Darfur then go here.Anything else and yeah, go here.The thread you are looking at right now is for the output of the "What the flip is going on" project only and absolutely everything else belongs elsewhere. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS THREAD!
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Post by chelseeyuh on May 15, 2010 15:02:36 GMT -5
What is human trafficking?
Human trafficking is the coercion or abduction of humans in order to take them from their homes and bring them elsewhere, where they are forced to work without pay. Human trafficking is often referred to as “modern-day slavery.”
How prevalent is it?More slaves exist today than in any other period in world history. It is estimated that there are currently 27 million slaves in the world, and as many as 800,000 new victims are trafficked each year. Who gets trafficked, and why?
As much as 80% of these slaves, which are mostly women and children, are sex slaves. Girls as young as five-years-old are forced into prostitution, and the average age of victims is 11. Young girls are often desired because it is a common belief in many countries that intercourse with a virgin can cure or ward off AIDS, or has some other sort of healing power. This means that many of the men hiring these girls are infected with AIDS, thus infecting the girls as well. Also, since virginity is so sought after, brothel owners may go as far as to sew and re-sew a young girl’s hymen several times in order to give the illusion of virginity so they can charge more for the girls. What happens to victims of human trafficking?These girls are tortured, raped, and drugged into submission. Disobedience to one’s captor has been known to result in punishments as severe as girls having their eyes gouged out, being shot, and having hot peppers stuffed up their vaginas. Because girls are tortured regularly, few even dream of escaping. Those that do escape often face corrupt police who rape them and return them to their brothels. Even those who do not face this and manage a complete escape from slavery sometimes return of their own free will because they have no skills and do not know how to live outside of a brothel, or they cannot overcome the drug addiction which the brothel owner forced upon them.
Where does it occur?
Many people believe that human trafficking only occurs in developing countries, but this is not true. The United States, German, Italy, Belgium, and other developed countries are some of the most common destinations for victims of human trafficking. For example, there are currently about 10,000 victims of human trafficking in the United States. You can find examples of victims of human trafficking all over the world at slaverymap.org/What can I do? You can learn more about human trafficking, and find ways to help here: www.somaly.org/ www.notforsalecampaign.org/More info: Also, the Nicholas Kristof, the guy in that video ^, wrote a book called “Half The Sky,” which talks a lot about human trafficking, and you should read it if you get the chance. -------------------------------------------- If I got anything wrong and you can correct me then pm me or post on this thread: here.If you would like to take part in the bi-weekly (or weekly) "What the flip is going on..." project by creating a post on an issue for this thread or would like to suggest a better name then pm me or post here.If you would like to ask any questions or discuss anything about Darfur then go here.Anything else and yeah, go here.The thread you are looking at right now is for the output of the "What the flip is going on" project only and absolutely everything else belongs elsewhere. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS THREAD!
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Post by RabbitWho on May 15, 2010 15:03:26 GMT -5
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