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    Sex trafficking is a modern-day form of slavery that involves the illegal trade of human beings for some form of sexual exploitation. Crimes under the umbrella of sex trafficking are defined in three ways: acquisition, movement, and exploitation, and include child sex tourism (CST) and prostitution (Hammond & McGlone, 2014). In a 2014 report, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimated that there are approximately 800,000 people trafficked across international borders annually

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    “Are you serious? Girls are not just objects, they are human beings just like everyone else.” That disgusts me, are the thoughts I was having when I saw that Thailand has a total of around three million sex workers in their country, and the number is increasing. Prostitution is legal but human trafficking is not. How can we make prostitution legal and then not expect is to lead to more human trafficking around the world. Prostitution is the practice or occupation of engaging in sexual activity with

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    gender of the victims, and the percentage of each gender in different trafficking situations. The situations include children, adults, male, and female victims. The situations the victims fall into are pornography, forced labor, sex slaves, prostitution, child sex tourism, and many more. These are the issues and key points made by the authors to persuade the reader to agree with their position. “Combining statistical data with intimate accounts and interviews, journalist Stephanie Hepburn and

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    Introduction This review of the literature will be about the topic of sex trafficking. My research process involved searching for information on sex trafficking and also human trafficking as a whole. I investigated a great deal of different sources and used many websites of organizations dedicated to spreading awareness on sex trafficking and working toward hindering it. I also researched using non-fiction books regarding sex trafficking, including works sharing the experiences of real victims and

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    about in text books during a history lesson. However, today there exists a form of modern day slavery in America called sex trafficking. A startling 14,588 cases in America of Sex Trafficking have been reported since 2007, and these are only the cases that have been reported (Polaris, 2016). There is currently a mass market and financial gain for the selling and purchasing of a Sex Trafficking victim. Our homeless youth, domestic violence victims, and members of the LGBTQ community are among the most

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    women engage themselves in such activities as prostitution by their own choice, forced into it, or because of their own mental health state.”(Chudakov 305) The start of prostitution started centuries. In the beginning many women were obligated to have sex with men. Along with citizens from other countries being forced onto cluttered boats to come to

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    Exploitation in Travel and Tourism. Marilyn was recognized as one of the world’s most influential women leaders; under her leadership, Carlson Company employed over 150,000 people worldwide and achieved over $37 billion in annual sales in 2006 (Lawrence & Weber, 2014). She had a visionary outlook and was always looking for potential issues that could impact relationships with stakeholders. In some parts of the world, the tourism industry was exploiting children and teen girls for sex trafficking. It had

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    Carlson Company is facing serious problems with sex trafficking in the global tourism. The Carlson Company is a global marketing, travel, and hospitality company. In 2004, Marilyn Carlson Nelson, Chief executive officer of the Carlson Company, signed the Code of Conduct for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation in Travel and Tourism. This is a global project that allows Carlson Company and nongovernmental organizations to prevent children sex trafficking and prostitution at a tourist destination

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    By the time you finish reading this paper nearly 23 children around the world will be victims of sex trafficking. Sex trafficking is a huge global health and human rights issue affecting roughly 152 countries around the world (Greenbaum & Crawford-Jakubiak, 2015). The United Nations describes sex trafficking as “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, 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

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    The idea that anyone would have sex with a minor or force a minor to have sex with someone is a sickening thought. But sadly its real and its growing everyday. With the growth of social media and the containing issue of poor and unstable homes, the list for candidates to become child prostitutes is forever

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