A trailer we did for the Not For Sale campaign. Focuses on sex trafficking, forced labor, and child soldiers. (February 12, 2007)
What Is Slavery?
Common characteristics distinguish slavery from other human rights violations. A slave is:
* forced to work -- through mental or physical threat; * owned or controlled by an 'employer', usually through mental or physical abuse or threatened abuse; * dehumanized, treated as a commodity or bought and sold as 'property'; * physically constrained or has restrictions placed on his/her freedom of movement.
What Types Of Slavery Exist Today?
Bonded labor affects millions of people around the world. People become bonded laborers by taking or being tricked into taking a loan for as little as the cost of medicine for a sick child. To repay the debt, many are forced to work long hours, seven days a week, up to 365 days a year. They receive basic food and shelter as 'payment' for their work, but may never pay off the loan, which can be passed down for generations.
Early and forced marriage affects women and girls who are married without choice and are forced into lives of servitude often accompanied by physical violence.
Forced labor affects people who are illegally recruited by individuals, governments or political parties and forced to work -- usually under threat of violence or other penalties.
Slavery by descent is where people are either born into a slave class or are from a 'group' that society views as suited to being used as slave labor.
Trafficking is a term that encompasses many types of slavery and is often incorrectly defined. It does not require any movement. The accepted international defiition according to the UN (and agreed upon by the US Government) states that trafficking is recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons by improper means, such as force, abduction, fraud or coercion, for an improper purpose. Trafficking often includes forced labour, servitude, slavery or sexual exploitation.
Sex Trafficking is anyone who is being forced or coerced into having sex for an improper use. The majority of prostitutes in America are or at one point were trafficked. If they have a pimp they being trafficked. Any minor who is being used in the sex trade is automatically considered a trafficking victim.
The worst forms of child labor affects an estimated 126 million children around the world in work that is harmful to their health and welfare.
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