Question

Human and Sex Trafficking Global Issue

Who are your stakeholders? Identify at least four specific stakeholders or stakeholder groups. What are their values? Why do they think this issue is important? What do they have to gain or lose? What is their goal regarding your topic? How are their positions similar or different from one another? Look at this topic from their various perspectives and examine what these voices have to say.

Answer 1

According to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center, human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery in which traffickers use force, fraud, or coercion to control victims for the purpose of engaging in commercial sex acts or labor services against his/her will.

Sex trafficking has been found in a wide variety of venues within the sex industry, including residential brothels, escort services, fake massage businesses, strip clubs, and street prostitution.

Stakeholders/Stakeholder groups:

1. ATEST : Alliance To end Slavery and Trafficking :

It is a U.S. based coalition that advocates for solutions to prevent and end all forms of human trafficking and modern slavery around the world.

They advocate for lasting solutions to prevent labor and sex trafficking, hold perpetrators accountable, ensure justice for victims and empower survivors with tools for recovery.

Their collective experience implementing programs at home and abroad provides their coalition an unparalleled breadth and depth of expertise.

ATEST member organizations include: Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (CAST), Free the Slaves, National Network for Youth (NN4Y), Polaris, Safe Horizon, Solidarity Center, Verité, and Vital Voices Global Partnership.

2. Foundation Scelles:

Is a UK group that campaigns against the exploitation of prostituted people, notably in the category of human trafficking.

''Procurers, supporters and traffickers, the mediators, the procuresses, the hotel procurers and owners of both hourly motels and screen businesses for the exploitation of prostitution, all have a responsibility as professional slave drivers. However, they would be forced to carry on their activities in a different manner if they were not at the service of "His Majesty, the Client" of prostitution'', says Jean Scelles

Fondation Scelles is endowed by CRIDES (Center for International Research and Documentation on Sexual Exploitation) – which collects and analyses information on prostitution worldwide due to its network of reporters.

3. International Justice Mission:

It is a global human rights organization that protects the poor from violence in the developing world. Their global team includes hundreds of lawyers, investigators, social workers, community activists, and other professionals at work in nearly 20 communities.

International Justice Mission (IJM) is a global organisation that protects the most vulnerable from violence and oppression irrespective of their gender, community, caste, race, and ethnicity.

4. Truckers against Trafficking:

This is a US non-profit organization exists to educate, equip, empower and mobilize members of the trucking and travel plaza industry to combat domestic sex trafficking.

All of their programs work to create entry points to train drivers and truck stop employees so that more calls will be made, and more victims recovered.

With over three million truck drivers across America, spreading ideas and new practices to scale the industry is no small task . To do this, TAT offers a number of ways for organizations across the entire industry to engage —e.g., trucking companies train their drivers, state trucking associations advocate amongst their member companies, and law enforcement partner with travel plazas and trucking companies to form local coalitions.

In so doing, they are engaging organizations and individuals across the trucking community and law enforcement as a network of “truckers against trafficking”.

Critical to their uptake is helping people understand the reality of the issue, providing simple actions people can take, and communicating positively about the potential and real impact the trucking industry is having in ending slavery.