When Congress passed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act in 2000, it found that even as the 21st century began, the degrading institution of slavery continued throughout the wor
The research focused on the connections between the supply of women trafficked from abroad and within the United States to the demand created by sex industries and the involvement
Nearly everybody would agree that slavery is wrong; and I can say this perhaps with greater feeling than most, having in a manner of speaking been a slave. However, there are dange
Markets in sexually-explicit materials (pornography) and sexual services (prostitution) raise numerous worries for philosophers and feminists. The main concern is that such markets
Human trafficking is profit-driven exploitation of men, women, or children facilitated by force, fraud, or coercion. Human trafficking exists in numerous job sectors and industries
Slavery is an institution that has been present within nearly every human society (Patterson 1982: vii). Although it is now widely seen as a paradigmatic case of injustice (see Jus
Certainly there is a lot of ignorance on the topic of trafficking. But sometimes there also seems to be little will to understand the scope of the issue. Why? Because it touches cl
“Spe salvi facti sumus”—in hope we were saved, says Saint Paul to the Romans, and likewise to us (Rom 8:24). According to the Christian faith, “redemption”—salvation—is not simply
Slavery is used to cover a range of practices from treating individuals as property which may be utilised and exchanged without their consent (chattel), to using them with their consent in payment of a loan or debt (debt bondage); it may also take the form of domestic servitude (working as servants) or of productive slavery (forced labour in mining, farming, or manufacture). As well as the holding of slaves there is the practice of exchanging them for money or services, with human trafficking being defined by the United Nations as “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of people through force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them for profit.”. The moral objections to slavery and trafficking are many and obvious. Apart from the physical and psychological suffering and harm inflicted on victims, there is the breaking of family relationships, the denial of rights of freedom & opportunity, and most fundamentally the violation of human dignity and autonomy.