‘Experience has shown that any major event at which large numbers of people congregate results in a temporary and spectacular increase in the demand for sexual services’ (1) As discussed last week, South Africa at the time of the FIFA World Cup preparations did not have any laws against sex trafficking. However, the country still [...]
For my last blog post, I wanted to examine the ethical practices of the other side of the anti-trafficking initiative: the donors. Although I believe that NGOs should balance their goals with their pursuit for fundraising, I believe that it is equally necessary for donors to have reasonable expectations of organizations working in the field. [...]
For the last blog post, I will focus on the challenges that African migrant women face in Europe. As seen in other regions, migrant women in Europe are vulnerable to lack of access to health care, labor abuse, and sex trafficking. As of 2009 data, 14.9 million immigrant women live in the twenty-seven countries of [...]
As I reflect back on the trajectory of my blog this quarter, I have realized that there is a gaping hole in my discussion of the struggle of women working in the maquilas on the border for labor rights. In my focus on the labor struggles of these women who live along the US-Mexico [...]
For my last blog I have decided to focus on a possible positive intervention and the role that laws can play in sex trafficking. My previous blogs on interventions have been focused on grassroots level, community interventions that are doing great things for trafficking victims every day and are working hard to prevent sex trafficking. [...]
This week, I wanted to continue with the conversation of what is being done in the Philippines, and I thought it would be fitting to find an organization for women by women (and allies) to show what other interventions are being done to help Filipino women. Born Maria Josefa Gabriela Carino Silang (March 19, 1731-September [...]
In preparing my blog entries over the course of the last few weeks, I struggled to find an organization whose work with women in the maquilas on the US-Mexico border seemed truly transformational. I have found numerous organizations doing impressive work to organize female maquila workers, to combat the unhealthy working conditions within the factories, [...]
We did not really have time in class to discuss the “Sugar Daddy” versus prostitution topic, so I wanted to cover something similar in this blog post. One of the downsides of the end of the Cold War and opened borders is an increase in mail order brides. It is a pretty fine line between [...]
This week I have decided to look into the people who are the “pimps” in trafficking. I think that we very rarely look at why traffickers decide to traffic women in the first place. This situation is not unique to traffickers – it happens with those who perpetrate relationship abuse, those who steal, those who [...]
A Long Time Coming &a Long Way To Go
Over the past seven weeks, I have gone into detail of different types of human trafficking in the Philippines and what measures two non-governmental organizations are doing as prevention and interventions for these injustices. I have only given a small glimpse of what the Filipino government is doing for their people such as R.A 9208, the Anti-Trafficking [...]