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    threats, lies, bondage debt, or other forms of coercion to force people into hard labor in multiple industries. Labor traffickers falsely promise of a high-paying job or exciting education or travel opportunities to trap people into difficult labor. The victims of this ferocious trafficking find that the jobs are much more difficult, and they are forced to work with little to no pay. Their employers exert such physical or psychological control by using physical abuse, debt bondage, confiscation of

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    In 1865, the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution ended the institution of slavery. Eventhough it was abolished, modern day slavery still exists and has evolved under a different appearance and is known as “Human Trafficking” in today’s society. It still harms people all around the world. Slavery has been continueing for centruies and forces humans to work under bad conditions. Each year, thousands of people are trafficked across borders or internally, and exploited for cheap labor or

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    Forced labor and human trafficking are some of the forms of slavery in the modern day. Although the world has made several strides in ending human trafficking, several factors have played a big role in ensuring that trafficking is still carried on. The ILO describes forced labor as the work and services offered by a person unwillingly; on the other hand human trafficking is the transport and recruitment of people through coercion with the aim of exploiting them. The continual practice of human trafficking

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    media. Human trafficking has affected men, woman, and children in varying ways. Human trafficking is not solely sex trafficking it is segmented into various categories. Trafficking includes but is not limited to sexual exploitation, forced labor, debt bondage, involuntary servitude, and trafficking of cells and organs. The way the media frames human trafficking has a rippling effect towards the audience and societies perspective. Positively using the media can influence society and can possibly help

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    mental and physical threat. Someone may be dehumanized and treated as a commodity or may be sold as "property" and some may have restrictions placed on their freedom. The most common form of Slavery is Debt Bondage. Debt Bondage is a form of slavery that holds its victims in an endless cycle of debt and poverty. Extreme poverty often forces parents to offer themselves or their own children as collateral against a loan. Though, they are promised they will only work until their

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    Human Trafficking: Examining the Why of Modern-Day Slavery Abstract The paper focuses on human trafficking which can be considered as modern day slavery. The paper will mainly focus on human trafficking in the United States and globe wise as well as its effects and how this can be prevented. Actual statistics from credible sources and government sources will be used and cited where necessary. The paper will also try which school of thought for crime can best used to describe human trafficking. The

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    Controlling all four social and cultural processes at work in Matewan, the company is able to extract the fear, work, and “loyalty” they desire out of their workers. They are maintaining a feudal environment over their employees, binding them through debt peonage to serve only the Stone Mountain Coal Company, denying them the freedom to search for other employers. The Stone Mountain Coal Company would in fact appear

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    largest number of immigrants, with 35 million, followed by the Russian Federation with 13 million and Germany with 7 million” (3). Human Trafficking is growing around the world, and the most common three types are sex trafficking, forced labor, and debt bondage. Heather Smith, author of the article Sex Trafficking: Trends, Challenges, and the Limitations of International Law, records that human beings are illegally transported from various frontiers. She

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    is human trafficking all around the world, but the rate is higher in impoverished places such as Bangladesh, Brazil and Haiti. Human trafficking occurs because of unstable political climates, families economically disadvantaged, and being stuck in debt that is ever growing which one can not pay with money. Unstable political climates are catalyst for human trafficking. The conditions of the political system are tied to the government and the security in which the country has. In the article "Sex

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    Similar to many successful enterprises, terrorist groups have always diversified their revenue stream by relying on various forms of criminal activities to fund their operations. Terrorist groups are being forced to converge with organized crime to integrate local criminal activities in order to fund international terrorism. According to Steven D 'Alfonso, author of Why Organized Crime and Terror Groups Are Converging, D 'Alfonso notes that there is “evidence of Hezbollah establishing a strong base

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