STUDENT REPLIES
STUDENT REPLY #1 Jamie Archer
The international sex trade is still a major issue around the world. The most widespread kind of modern-day slavery is human sex trafficking. The number of domestic and foreign victims, largely women and children exploited in the commercial sex industry for little or no money, is estimated to be in the millions. Human trafficking and sex slavery bring up pictures of young girls being beaten and exploited in far-off locations such as Eastern Europe, Asia, or Africa. While in reality human sex trafficking and sex slavery occur on a local level in both large and small cities and towns across the United States (Walker-Rodriguez & Hill, 2011). Human sex trafficking is not only enslavement, but also a significant industry. It is the world’s third-largest criminal enterprise and the fastest-growing organized crime operation. The bulk of sex trafficking victims are transported from less developed locations such as South and Southeast Asia, the former Soviet Union, Central and South America, and transported to more developed areas such as Asia, the Middle East, Western Europe, and North America. Unfortunately, sex trafficking occurs in the United States as well. The United States is not only dealing with an influx of overseas victims, but it also has its own domestic problem of kids being trafficked across state lines.
The US has made stopping human traffickers, protecting victims, and preventing this crime a high priority. Combating human trafficking necessitates a holistic approach. Within the government, this entails collaboration and coordination between agencies with a variety of responsibilities, such as criminal justice, labor enforcement, victim outreach and services, public awareness, education, trade policy and promotion, international development and programs, customs and immigration, intelligence, and diplomacy. An integrated response to human trafficking that leverages resources and amplifies results requires coordinated federal activities that include state, local, and tribal agencies, the private sector, civil society, survivors, religious communities, and academics (U.S. Department of State, 2021).
Reference
U.S. Department of State. (2021, December 3). Federal response on human trafficking – united states department of state. U.S. Department of State. Retrieved May 5, 2022, from https://www.state.gov/humantrafficking/
Walker-Rodriguez, A., & Hill, R. (2011, March 1). Human sex trafficking. FBI. Retrieved May 5, 2022, from https://leb.fbi.gov/articles/featured-articles/human-sex-trafficking
STUDENT REPIY #2 John DeLuca
The human rights violation I chose for this week’s discussion was the violation against the Japanese in 1942 in the United States during the start of World War II. According to the Map of International Human Rights Violations around the World, The United States had just been attacked by Japan in Pearl Harbor and responded by removing all Humans of Japanese descent from the West Coast which included California, Oregon, and Washington into internment camps. On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed an executive order that all Japanese descendants from the Pacific Coast be relocated into Internment camps for the remainder of World War II.
O May 9, 1942, Japanese descendants were scheduled for removal from assembly centers to internment camps. Of those people 62% were American-born United States citizens. There were approximately 120,000 Japanese people detained for the duration of the war.
Of the 120,000 Japanese people all of them lost their homes and valuables and were left with only the clothes on their back once they were released at the end of the war.
Explain how one community internationally, nationally, of locally might or did respond to this violation.
During the time of the internment camps there was little to no response on the level of protests or human rights groups. I believe that at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor Americans were outraged by the killings on their own American soil where they overlooked the fact that these Japanese people who in many cases were American born citizens were being violated by these so-called war camps.
The Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) was established in 1959, the commission operates independently, and its members include all the independent states of the Western Hemisphere (Donnelly, 2013). I believe that if this violation would have occurred in later years the IACHR would have created fact finding missions and issued factual reports of liability for the human rights violation that occurred.
References
Donnelly, J. (2013). Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice (3rd ed.). United States: Cornell University Press.
Map of the International Human Rights Violations aroun
PROFESSOR REPLY#3
What do you think? Will these proposed solutions help or is this a cycle that keeps repeating itself?
