Various forms of slavery have been a part of the world’s history. In modern society direct forms of slavery are outlawed; however, human trafficking continues to occur within insidious organizations all over the world. While women and children are not the only victims of human trafficking, the lack of mobility, power, or education in their societies make these two groups the biggest victims of human trafficking. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Sheryl Wudunn believes that the greatest injustice of this century is gender inequality. Wudunn is the first Asian American to win a Pulitzer Prize. She was awarded with a Pulitzer Prize in International Journalism for her New York Times 1989 coverage of the Tienanmen Square protests. Wudunn is a business executive who has attended Cornell University, Princeton University, and Harvard Business School. As a senior banker she focuses on growth companies in the technology industry. She also works with female entrepreneurs. In their bestselling novel Half The Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, Sheryl and her husband Nick Kristof chronicle their journey around the world and the amazing women and children that they meet. They chronicle the horror stories as well as the stories of hope and success of women given opportunity. Acknowledging gender inequality and its effects on victims of human trafficking will allow humanitarians to apply the possible solutions and effects educating women will have on blotting out the issue of human trafficking.
Violence against women is an issue that walks in lockstep with society. There is no society that is not struggling to see women as people with an equal ability to have power, or at least financial mobility. Many involved see t...
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National data gives us an indication of the severity of this issue. When 1 in 5-woman report being victims of severe physical violence (NISVS, 2010), we must ask ourselves if enough is being done to prevent this from occurring. From a historical point, there has always almost been a distinction from men on woman violence. Based on the disparity of cases reported, male inflicted violence on females is much higher and prevalent. When the perpetrators of DV, and IPV are predominately males, we can no longer dismissed this issue as a cultural, or
In the past century, America has made great leaps in terms of equality. With the efforts made by the civil rights and suffrage movements, all people gained the right to vote. We are even moving forward with marriage equality, and currently fifteen states recognize same-sex marriage. But regardless of all of our progressive institutional movements forward, we continue to socially oppress women. Men’s violence against women has grown to be an internationally recognized epidemic, and will continue to grow unless measures be made to stop it. Domestic violence continues to be prevalent in the lives of many families, and is the primary cause of homelessness in half of cases for women in children. Many women have been forced to alter their behaviors out of fear of being sexually or physically assaulted. One out of every three women is sexually or physically abused in their lifetimes. The first thing that comes to mind is, there are a lot of people abusing women out there. Many people with opposing ideas may claim that men can be victims of violence perpetrated by women, but in instances not used for self-defense, it is rarely part of a systematic pattern of power and control through force or threat of force. In fact, 99% of rape is perpetrated by men, but when confronting men about the issue of violence against women, it is often combated with denial. Jackson Katz writes in his book, The Macho Paradox, “We take comfort in the idea of the aforementioned child-rapist murderer as a horrible aberration. A monster. We’re nothing like him.”(Katz 30). The sad truth is that most women who are raped are raped by men they know, or even men they love. Many men have a hard time believing that saying that most violence is perpetuated by men does not...
Since 1970, there has been an increasing and alarming rise 138 percent of violent crimes committed by women. Still, while the equivalent percentage compared to male violence is small 15 percent to 85 percent the fact that the numbers have elevated so drastically points to something changing in society.
Kleemans, Edward R. "The Challenges of Fighting Sex Trafficking in the Legalized Prostitution Market of the Netherlands - Springer." The Challenges of Fighting Sex Trafficking in the Legalized Prostitution Market of the Netherlands - Springer. Springer Link, 01 Mar. 2014. Web. 26 Mar. 2014. In 2000, the Dutch legislation made brothels legal in the Netherlands. The logic behind their legislation was to control prostitution. Given a legal age, people could now willingly sell and purchase sexual services. This paper evaluates a position that argues that human trafficking is reduced when people in the legalized prostitution area are made responsible for what happens on their premises. This idea is challenged with observed evidence about the Netherlands in general and the city of Amsterdam. Also, the paper addresses two questions. What consequences of the legalization of prostitution and prosecution are of sex trafficking? How do law enforcements collaborate with people in these sectors? The main conclusion is that the transmission of brothel owners does not create levels of clearness that enable sex trafficking to be exposed. The prostitution business shows many characteristics of an illegal business and the legalization and regulation of the prostitution area has not eliminated organized crime. This article is vital evidence for the argument of my paper. Each point of my argument is summed up with the two main topics of this article. This will be the main article used for research in my paper because the idea that it is harder to fight sex trafficking in legalized prostitution sectors.
It is stated that human trafficking is the present day form of slavery. It is said that once the thirteenth amendment was put into place, trafficking began to arise due to the increasing needs of workers. The workers had to be smuggled over and were also taken without choice occasionally. In the Global Hotspot: Democratic Republic of Congo it states that human trafficking is occurring due to the need for mine workers and people to make jewelry and electronics. In the International Voices the writer speaks about how women have become a toy of war in Liberian civil war.
Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn is an acclaimed book about the oppression of women and described in detail as the couple traveled to developing countries such as Cambodia, China, Afghanistan, and Congo. Kristof and WuDunn explored the inadequate women’s rights by meeting and interviewing various women around the world. From brothels to hospitals, the couple heard stories about the mistreatment of women that is unheard of in the Western society. At the end of the novel, some solutions are provided that range from the individual level to globally. Today, many organizations exist to try to correct some of these inequalities. Some of the most effective nongovernmental organizations in fighting women’s inequality issues such
Women for decades have been oppressed by male dominance and superiority. Throughout the Women’s Movement, oppression has slowly been challenged by women of all types in the battle for their own rights as human beings, such as day care, abortion rights, equal pay, violence, etc.... ... middle of paper ... ... A. 1997.
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"We live in a misogynist, machista society … with prejudices about how a woman should behave and the punishment she should receive for not fulfilling those expectations. There is no presumption of innocence” (Wilkinson). This shows that women have always been struggling to have their own rights and don’t have a strong
There is an extensive variety of crimes occurring internationally, and human trafficking is one of many severe crimes that cannot be stopped. Human trafficking is the form of modern day slavery, and is one of the largest and most crucial crimes on the globe. Without having an actual date of when it started, human trafficking has been going on for centuries. This crime involves sex exploitation, which exposes the victim to diseases such as HIV or STD’s, and in some cases unwanted pregnancies. Human trafficking also entails forced labor such as work in factories, agriculture, and at restaurants. The forced labor that is being involved in this crime is one of the main concept that ties in with slavery. Human trafficking also includes the
In part because of the feminist critique of masculine warlike actions, males are considered to be the more violent and aggressive. Constantly, during courses of violence, society is constantly asked: where are the women and what are they doing? This in turn naturally directs us to a domestic analysis while looking into the lens of conflict in gender. The framing has made females the victims in that context, which has being challenged by the acts of violence committed by females. This paper will examine whether or not males are more violent and aggressive than the females and depict whether or not violence is determined by the nature of biology and the nurture of the environment that the violence may or not foster from.
Manuh, T., & Bekoe, A. A. (2010). Confronting violence. In S. Shaw & J. Lee, Women's Voices Feminist Visions (5 ed., pp. 537-540). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
“According to the National Violence Against Women Survey (1998), 15% of women will be the victim of a completed rape in their lifetimes and 2.1% of men. According to the Department of Justice, 99% of all people arrested for rape are men. While some men are rape victims, men are almost always the perpetrator. That is not to say that all or even most men are violent, or that women cannot perpetrate such violence. “Gender violence highlights a male-patterned violence a prevalent violence committed most often, but not always by men, often motivated by aggression, revenge, competition, and entitlement, and includes sexual and other violence against women, partners and children.”
Violence against women (VAW) is now considered and recognized as a public health predicament and a human rights infringement of a worldwide scale and force (Ono, 2013; Raj & Silverman, 2002). Research evidence exists for it serving as a crucial social determinant of health and its resulting vast and damaging impact on physical and mental health for women in Canada (Sharma, 2001). Violence as a concept includes diverse forms of abuse that are directed at women and girls across their lifetime. One critical category or form of violence against women is domestic violence. For the purpose of this paper terms violence against women and domestic violence will be used interchangeably. Domestic violence has been recognized as a critical social problem