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Global estimates of human trafficking range from 600,000 to four
million victims each year with the majority being victims of sex
trafficking. This strikingly large range belies the difficulty in
gathering, defining, and accountability of sex-trafficking data.
Victims of sex trafficking may be forced into pornography,
prostitution for the military or militia, spousal prostitution, and
prostitution for the sex-tourism industry. In response to the
problem of sex trafficking, many nations have either misunderstood
the definition or failed to comprehend the magnitude that have
occurs within their borders. The United Nations has defined 'human
trafficking' as 'the recruitment, transfer, harboring or receipt of
persons by threat or use of force.' Similarly, the U.S. State
Department's Trafficking Victims Protection Act 2000 describes
severe forms of trafficking as: (a) sex trafficking in which a
commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in
which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18
years of age; or (b) the recruitment, harboring, transportation,
provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through
the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection
to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery. In Sex
Trafficking: A Global Perspective, sex trafficking is discussed in
terms of its multiple purposes and its victims. The essays provide
information to build upon the limited knowledge-base on the subject
of sex trafficking and the legislative responses to human
trafficking by the various highlighted countries. This collection
is unique because it serves the needs of those studying human
trafficking from a global perspective by targeting the issue within
every geographic region, it provides a general profile of
geographic regions in terms of demographic characteristics and
political conditions that may support the growth of sex
trafficking, and it is written on a basic information-supply-level
to provide readers with a foundation on human trafficking
throughout the world.
Global estimates of human trafficking range from 600,000 to four
million victims each year with the majority being victims of sex
trafficking. This strikingly large range belies the difficulty in
gathering, defining, and accountability of sex-trafficking data.
Victims of sex trafficking may be forced into pornography,
prostitution for the military or militia, spousal prostitution, and
prostitution for the sex-tourism industry. In response to the
problem of sex trafficking, many nations have either misunderstood
the definition or failed to comprehend the magnitude that have
occurs within their borders. The United Nations has defined "human
trafficking" as "the recruitment, transfer, harboring or receipt of
persons by threat or use of force." Similarly, the U.S. State
Department's Trafficking Victims Protection Act 2000 describes
severe forms of trafficking as: (a) sex trafficking in which a
commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in
which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18
years of age; or (b) the recruitment, harboring, transportation,
provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through
the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection
to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery. In Sex
Trafficking: A Global Perspective, sex trafficking is discussed in
terms of its multiple purposes and its victims. The essays provide
information to build upon the limited knowledge-base on the subject
of sex trafficking and the legislative responses to human
trafficking by the various highlighted countries. This collection
is unique because it serves the needs of those studying human
trafficking from a global perspective by targeting the issue within
every geographic region, it provides a general profile of
geographic regions in terms of demographic characteristics and
political conditions that may support the growth of sex
trafficking, and it is written on a basic information-supply-level
to provide readers with a fo
Founded in a perspective that speaks to the diversity of contexts
and processes used across Canada, this work is nevertheless firmly
grounded in theory, offering an in-depth analysis geared toward
advanced study in community practice. This depth is further
strengthened by the diversity of topics represented in this
collective work: community work in various regions of the country
exploring issues of poverty and environmental activism; community
work with immigrants and refugees, and with trans communities;
feminist community organizing as well as organizing with persons
with disabilities and with members of linguistic communities; and,
finally, artsbased community work with the elderly. This book is
published in English. - S'il reflete une diversite de contextes et
de processus mis en oeuvre partout au Canada, cet ouvrage est
toutefois fermement ancre dans la theorie, convenant aux etudes
avancees en pratique communautaire. La diversite des sujets que
propose cet ouvrage collectif est d'un interet particulier, qu'il
s'agisse du travail communautaire dans diverses regions du pays
explorant les questions de la pauvrete et de l'activisme
environnemental; le travail communautaire aupres des immigrants et
des refugies et avec les communautes de personnes trans;
l'organisation de la communaute feministe ainsi que celle des
personnes handicapees ou celle des membres de communautes
linguistiques, et enfin, le travail communautaire axe sur les arts
aupres des personnes agees. Ce livre est publie en anglais.
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