Agenda

1. Overview of Human Trafficking
2. Case Study: Thailand
3. North Carolina
4. Judges 19-20
5. Action Steps

Human Trafficking Overview

• 27 million slaves today [1]
• 600,000 - 800,000 people are trafficked across
  international borders each year [2]
• 79% of trafficking is for sexual exploitation [3]
• 80% of victims are female [4]

Contributing Factors of Human Trafficking

• Poverty
• Discrimination and Gender Roles
• Globalization

Denying Citizenship: Thailand

• Nationality Act of 1965
• Hill tribes excluded from 1956 census [5]
• 3 million stateless people [6]

Tourism Promotion: Thailand

photo by Andrea Wilson

• Prostitution is illegal
• Economic disincentive to enforce laws
  • 250,000 sex tourists per year [7]
  • 10% of tourism income [8]

Cultural Norms: Thailand

photo by Duncan Wilson

• mia noi
• Male use of prostitution

Vulnerable Hill Tribe Girls

• Girls are responsible to provide for their parents and siblings
• According to UNHCR, in 1994 ~ 70% of girls eleven years old and up worked in the sex industry [9]
• Often sold by poverty-stricken parents

North Carolina

• Shaniya Davis
• Ranks 8th most likely state in the US for human trafficking to take place
• Interstate highways, agriculture and tourism all contribute to increased likelihood

Judges 19 - 20

• Consider It
• Take Counsel
• Speak Out [10]

Things You Can Do

• Books to read:
  • Half The Sky, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
  • A Crime so Monstrous, E. Benjamin Skinner
• Lifestyle Choices:
  • Chain Store Reaction http://www.chainstorereaction.com/
• Ministries to Support:
  • International Justice Mission
  • Home of New Beginnings (Thailand)
  • Shared Hope International

NC Resources

• NC Stop Human Trafficking http://ncstophumantrafficking.wordpress.com/
• Carolina Women’s Center http://humantrafficking.unc.edu

THANK YOU

References

1. Free the Slaves. “What’s the Story: Modern Slavery.” [updated 15 March 2011; cited 15 March 2011]. Available from: http://www.freetheslaves.net/Page.aspx?pid=375.
2. United States Department of State: Office to Combat and Monitor Trafficking in Persons. “Trafficking in Persons Report, 2006.” [updated 5 June 2006, accessed 15 March 2010]. Available from: http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2006/
3. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. “Global Report on Trafficking in Persons.” [updated February 2009; cited 12 March 2010]. Available from: http://www.unodc.org/documents/Global_Report_on_TIP.pdf.
4. Shorris, Anthony. “Preface.” In Marshaling Every Resource: State and Local Responses to Human Trafficking. ed. Dessi Dimitrova, 1-2. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
5. Hobbes, Necia. “Thailand: Legal Obstacles to Citizenship for Indigenous Groups.” The Jurist Legal News and Research. [updated 31 January 2009; cited 13 March 2010]. Available from: http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/dateline/2009/01/thailand-indigenous-population-faces.php.
6. Calderbank, Daniel. “Plight of the Hill Tribes.” The Bangkok Post. [updated 12 August 2008; cited 13 April 2010]. Available from: http://www.bangkokpost.com/120808_Learningpost/12Aug2008_lern03.php.
7. Nagle, Garrett. Focus on Geography: Tourism, Leisure and Recreation. London: Nelson Thornes, 1999.
8. Martin, Lorna. “Paradise Revealed.” Taipei Times. [updated 25 January 2006; cited 20 October 2010]. Available from: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2006/01/25/2003290710.
9. United Nations Refugee Agency. “Chronology for Northern Hill Tribes in Thailand.” Minorities at Risk. 2004. [updated 19 April 2010, accessed 20 October 2010]. Available from: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/type,CHRON,,THA,469f38e8c,0.html.
10. Rocke, Kris. Geography of Grace. Available from: http://geographyofgrace.com/