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1 results foundAuthor: Operation Broken Silence Title: Memphis Area Backpage.com Report: An Analysis of the Online Memphis Sex Industry and Human Trafficking Summary: Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings for the purpose of entering them into the commercial sex trade or using them for forced labor. The United Nations created the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, also known as the Palermo Protocol or the Trafficking Protocol, in 2000. The document defines human trafficking as: “[T]he recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.” Within the same year, the United States Congress passed the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act (VTVPA), which includes federal statutes that exist to protect victims of human trafficking as well as deter and punish criminals that traffic victims domestically. For the purposes of this report, two clarifications must be made regarding a functional definition of human trafficking. Firstly, human trafficking is not the same as smuggling. There is often a fine line between the two trades, yet human trafficking is slavery and smuggling is not. A victim may begin her journey to the United States thinking that she is being smuggled into the country and come to find herself in dirty and demeaning conditions where she is forced to be a prostitute. Here, the victim has been trafficked even though she originally intended to be smuggled into the U.S. The second clarification is perhaps the more important of the two, additionally it is more relevant to the report. A minor that is a victim is never a prostitute and is always a trafficking victim. Anyone who is under 18 years of age and is soliciting prostitution cannot legally be a prostitute and is always a slave. Even though he or she may appear willing to be on the street or seem to be soliciting themselves online, a minor will always have a pimp or a trafficker forcing them into the trade. Sometimes minors are arrested on prostitution charges and the trafficker or pimp will go free because he is able to protect himself behind his victim. The minor now has a criminal record and it will be more difficult for her to acquire a legitimate job. While the VTVPA and the Palermo Protocol are landmark documents both domestically and internationally, there is still much work to be done. Modern abolition is only ten years old, in its infancy, and very often far behind the sophisticated networks of traffickers that have been recruiting, hiding, and selling people for years. The good news is that the world is catching up and pushing trafficking into the fringes of society and dismantling it. Unfortunately, a casual computer user can still find slavery at the reach of his fingertips, and it is here that we begin. Details: Memphis, TN: Operation Broken Silence, 2011. 38p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 24, 2012 at http://www.operationbrokensilence.org/downloads/OBS-Backpage-Report.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United States URL: http://www.operationbrokensilence.org/downloads/OBS-Backpage-Report.pdf Shelf Number: 125047 Keywords: Human Trafficking (Tennessee)Prostitution (Tennessee)Sex Work (Tennessee) |