Hello fumsco-ga,
Your project involves a desperate problem that effects millions of
women and children. You are absolutely correct in identifying the
problem of global economic forces leading to trafficking in women and
the involvement of organized crime. Fortunately, there are many
organizations and research institutions working on research into the
problem and developing possible solutions. I?ve collected a variety of
links to help you delve as deeply as you like into this subject. I?m
sure you will be able to find many different types of information
(statistics, research, anecdotes, etc.) to help you with your project.
Please don?t hesitate to ask for clarification if any of this is
confusing.
All the best.
~ czh ~
http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=11513
UCLA International Institute
The Dark Side of Globalization: Trafficking & Transborder Crime to,
through, and from Eastern Europe
A forum on trafficking of humans and human organs.
Richard Gunde gunde@ucla.edu
Globalization has brought with it opportunities for the weak, poor,
and dispossed -- as well as for criminals. It can be a force for
liberation -- as well as for enslavement. It can be measured by the
flow of goods, services, and capital -- as well as humans and their
organs. Shedding light on the dark side of globalization was the
object of a forum presented on May 14 by the Center for European and
Eurasian Studies and the Burkle Center for International Relations.
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http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0305-06.htm
Published on Monday, March 5, 2001 in the San Francisco Bay Guardian
Women and Children For Sale -- The Globalization of Sexual Slavery
Widespread deprivation in Moldova and other parts of post-Soviet
Eastern European has created golden opportunities for organized
criminal gangs involved in the illegal sexual trafficking of women and
children. "Traffickers turn up in a rural community during a drought
or before a harvest, when food is scarce, and persuade poor couples
[to] sell their daughters for small amounts of money," explains a
recent study ("Lives Together, Worlds Apart") released by the United
Nations Population Fund. Other girls are kidnapped from their homes
and orphanages, while many destitute women are lured to foreign lands
by assurances of work, income, and visas, only to find themselves
forced into prostitution and slave labor.
***** This article makes the point that economic reforms demanded by
the World Bank in the wake of the breakup of the Soviet Union have led
to economic collapse in Moldova and the consequent rise in power of
organized crime and its role in promoting sexual slavery.
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http://www.globalgrn.org/research%20activities/humanrights01.htm
Human Trafficking, Women's Human Rights and Globalization
Project Abstract:
An interdisciplinary intellectual and activist endeavor, this project
views human slavery and trafficking in persons as a phenomenon of
globalization. Human slavery and the commodification of human beings
reveals a particularly cruel downside of globalization - a form of
modern-day slavery in the new global economy. The practice involves
the recruitment, transport, harboring, and often sale, of persons
exploited for their labor, increasingly in the sex sector. Thousands
of individuals a year are trafficked globally, rendering the practice
the fastest-growing and most lucrative criminal enterprise in the
world. In Asia, a recognized supply and demand zone for trafficked
persons, the practice is fed by economic disparity, restrictive
migrant policies, the low status of women and girls in the region, a
lax legal environment, poverty, and official corruption.
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http://www.hawaii.edu/global/projects_activities/trafficking.htm
Globalization Research Center
Human Slavery/Trafficking Project
Trafficking in persons - the illegal but profitable transport and sale
of human beings through coercion and fraud for the purpose of
exploiting their labor-is the fastest-growing criminal enterprise in
Asia -Pacific. To respond to this growing human rights crisis in the
region, GRC links programs of research, education and public policy.
We welcome partnerships with other organizations to combat human
slavery. A major initiative in 2002 was an international conference in
Honolulu, Hawai'i - "The Human Rights Challenge of Globalization in
Asia: The Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children".
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http://www.globalization101.org/issue/woman/6.asp
Women & Globalization
Modern Day Slavery
The U.S. State Department estimated in 2003 that approximately 800,000
? 900,000 people per year are trafficked across international borders
worldwide and between 18,000 ? 20,000 of those are trafficked into the
United States. These numbers include men, women and children who are
trafficked into forced labor or sexual exploitation, and appear to be
on the rise worldwide. Globalization has provided for an easier means
of exploiting those living in poverty who are seeking better lives, it
has also provided for dramatic improvements in transportation and
communications with which to facilitate the physical processing of
persons.
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http://www.atimes.com/c-asia/CH23Ag03.html
Central Asia/Russia
Globalization leads to slavery
GENEVA - Networks of traffickers in humans are increasingly exploiting
women from Central Asia, subjecting them to a modern form of slavery
in a dynamic that is linked to the globalization process and the
transformation of local economies, according to the International
Organization for Migration (IOM).
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http://www.sdnpbd.org/sdi/international_day/women_day/2003/Trafficking-Women.htm
http://www.sdnpbd.org/sdi/international_day/women_day/2004/women_trafficking.htm
Trafficking - Women
***** This is a huge collection of reports about the situation in Bangladesh.
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http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=1448
Yale Global Online
Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
Human Trafficking Casts Shadow on Globalization
Michele A. Clark
YaleGlobal, 23 April 2003
Women and children have been among the biggest losers in this era of
globalization, if we consider the massive increase in human
trafficking in recent years. Cheated or sold into a life of sexual
slavery or indentured servitude, the victims of human trafficking and
their stories reveal the dark underside of increased international
mobility. With the demise of socialist states, in particular, women
and children from impoverished areas have been smuggled or lured to
wealthy industrialized countries where they are exploited for high
profits. Although some steps have been taken by the European Union,
the UN, and individual national governments to prevent these abuses,
precious little has actually been achieved. The continued sale of
human beings as commodities on the world market must be addressed
globally if the practice is to be curbed. - YaleGlobal
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http://www.fpif.org/pdf/vol3/30ifwom.pdf
Trafficking in Women
Volume 3, Number 30
October 1998
by Jyothi Kanics, Global Survival Network
Editors: Tom Barry (IRC) and Martha Honey (IPS)
Increased economic globalization has resulted in an increased
feminization of poverty, forcing greater numbers of women worldwide to
migrate in search of work. Seeking economic opportunities abroad,
women turn to a variety of resources, including newspaper ads,
acquaintances, marriage agencies, labor recruiters, and modeling
agencies. They accept positions as nannies, maids, sex workers,
dancers, factory workers, and hostesses. Many of these migrants end up
as victims of illegal and unscrupulous trafficking networks.
***** This is a 4-page report that addresses your issues.
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http://ipsa-rc19.anu.edu.au/papers/Penttinen.pdf
Globalization, bio-power and trafficking in women
***** This is a 20-page paper to help you develop your thesis.
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http://www.fokuskvinner.no/Nyhetsarkiv/2053/1449
Foredrag: Victim protection and support
What can be done- and how can we cooperate?
Bjørg Skotnes, Director FOKUS ? Forum for women and development
Let me first briefly present my self. I am managing director for FOKUS
(Forum for women and development) in Norway. FOKUS is an organization
with 58 Norwegian women?s organization affiliated. I am not talking on
behalf of these 58 organizations. I am giving you my own analysis
based on what I have learnt after working with the trafficking issue
for some time and from consulting actors in the field in Norway. My
perspective is the Norwegian because that is what I know best.
To answer the question what can be done and how can we co oporate I
will concentrate on some main messages.
***** This is a long article dealing with the situation in the Baltic countries.
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http://sisyphe.org/article.php3?id_article=965
Globalization and the Sex Trade : Trafficking and the Commodification
of Women and Children
The author argues that the sex industry, previously considered
marginal, has come to occupy a strategic and central position in the
development of international capitalism. For this reason the sex trade
is increasingly taking on the guise of an ordinary sector of the
economy. This article examines industrialization of the sex trade and
the mass production of sexual goods and services structured around a
regional and international division of labour which has resulted in
the commodification of women and children.
***** This is a very long article with a very extensive bibliography.
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http://unpac.ca/economy/introglob.html
http://unpac.ca/economy/g_migration.html
Women and Globalization
***** This web site examines the question from the Canadian perspective.
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http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?noframes;read=53882
GLOBALIZATION INCREASES HUMAN TRAFFICKING/SMUGGLING
Posted By: FinancialEdEconomica
Date: Wednesday, 11 August 2004, 3:04 p.m.
Trying to stop illegal immigration without understanding the business
of human trafficking is very futile, I am afraid. Just like the drug
war which wont disappear until we put some fallacies to death,
smuggling/trafficking humans will demand us to address the root cause:
economy and sound money. No world can never perfect but 70% of the
problem could go away if we truly take the bull by the horns once and
for all. As long as it is not done, this is only one more element
added to the mix to promote global dictatorship. More over, who needs
more patrols along the borders right now? In a few months, the
US/World will be broken financially anyway. Likewise those lured
victims who do not have any rational knowledge will too pay a heavy
price.
***** This article also provides an excellent collection of statistics
on the problem.
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http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/factbook.htm
The Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation was compiled from media,
non-governmental organization and government reports. It is an initial
effort to collect facts, statistics and known cases on global sexual
exploitation. Information is organized into four categories:
Trafficking, Prostitution, Pornography, and Organized and
Institutionalized Sexual Exploitation and Violence.
***** Click on the links for the countries you?re interested in.
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