Plan of investigation

The theme of this project is Human Trafficking. The sub-topic of such theme is “How Did

Human Trafficking Come About.” This research is being carried out in the community of

Irwindale for there are a number of 5 Human Trafficking survivors in this community.

Approximately 300 persons live in such community. The persons living in this area a mostly

returning retired residents. The researcher has chosen three main reasons for choosing such topic.

Firstly, the topic was chosen to focus on the reasons that led to human trafficking. Furthermore,

the researcher yearns to learn about the different types of human trafficking and what they

represent. Finally, researcher wants to understand how human traffic originated and what are the

group of people who originated it.

Human Trafficking can be defined as Human trafficking involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion

to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act. Therefore, human Trafficking can also be referred to

as slavery. The Researcher will benefit from researching this topic by gaining experiences improving

reading abilities and gaining knowledge. The Researcher plans to collect data by surfing the internet for

appropriate articles. The visiting of the library for book and magazines and also, the researcher plans to

consult with the 5 persons in the community of Irwindale that has survived human trafficking.
 Artefacts
Article
Responsible Business 18 Human trafficking, the slavery of our times
By Myria Vassiliadou was appointed EU Anti-Trafficking Coordinator Trafficking in human
beings is the slavery of our times. Its patterns evolve along with the changing socioeconomic
circumstances, while Europe commits to working together for its eradication. Especially, in times
of economic and financial turbulence, traffickers continue targeting the most vulnerable of our
societies, rendering them into slaves for forced labor, sexual exploitation, domestic servitude,
organ removals, illegal activities, such as drug trafficking. These people are building our homes,
cleaning our houses, pick our fruits or tailor our clothes. And the responsibility for addressing
this heinous violation of everything humanity stands for is upon society as a whole. In general, it
is difficult to gauge the full extent of trafficking in human beings due to its criminal aspect. While
women do represent a majority of the victims, traffickers do not discriminate; men are forced
into hard labour, children are coerced into begging and stealing, girls and boys are forced into
sexual exploitation. According to preliminary data of the European Commission most of the
registered victims in Member States are used for sexual exploitation (76% in 2010). The
remaining is forced into labour (14% in 2010), begging (3%) and domestic servitude (1%). In
terms of gender, preliminary data available shows that women and girls are the main victims of
trafficking in human beings; female victims accounted for 79% (of whom 12% were girls) and
men for 21% (of which 3% were boys) of victims between 2008-2010. Victims come from
countries within and outside of the EU. More and more we see victims that are trafficked in their
own countries. It is now even more pertinent to have a harmonized EU approach to trafficking in
human beings. The Commission’s policy and legislative framework is characterized by a
comprehensive approach in addressing trafficking in human beings. The focus is on human
rights, victims are central and policy should be gender-specific. This is reflected in Directive
2011/36, to which the UK opted-in. It is expected to have considerable impact, once fully
transposed by the member states by 6th April 2013. The Directive focuses not only on law
enforcement but also on prevention, protection and building partnerships in addressing
trafficking in human beings. To follow up on the Directive, on 19th June 2012 the Commission
adopted a new and integrated Strategy. The EU Strategy towards the eradication of trafficking in
human beings identifies five priority areas; a) identifying, protecting and assisting victims of
trafficking; b) prevention of human trafficking including the reduction of demand; c) increased
prosecution of traffickers; d) enhanced coordination and cooperation and policy coherence; e)
increase knowledge and better response to trafficking in human beings. My main task as the EU
Anti-Trafficking Coordinator is to improve coordination and coherence between EU institutions,
EU agencies, member states and international actors, and to provide strategic policy guidance
in this respect. The private sector should play a special and key role in reducing demand and
supply for trafficking in human beings and I see it as my task to encourage the private sector to
do this. This is reflected in the Strategy that includes actions aimed at the involvement of the
private sector, in particular in the areas of the reduction of demand and supply. The complexity
of demand reduction stems also from the fact that it touches upon several and diverse levels,
targeting consumers, employer demand for cheap and pliable labor, and demand from parties
involved in human trafficking, such as recruiters, facilitators and brokers. Businesses should
have supply chains free from human trafficking. Therefore, one of the actions included in the
Strategy is that of launching a study on demand and supply, which would also contribute to
better understanding of the root causes of trafficking. The Commission will establish a European
Business Coalition against trafficking in human beings by 2014, a purpose to which I am
personally committed. This responds to the requests of many stakeholders who emphasized the
need to create partnerships with all actors, including the private sector. This coalition would
have the main functions of raising awareness and promoting practices reducing demand. In
particular, the Commission intends to work together with the Coalition to develop models and
guidelines on reducing the demand for services provided by victims of trafficking in human
beings, in particular in high-risk areas, including the sex industry, agriculture, construction and
tourism. In this respect, I am extending an invitation to all stakeholders who are committed to
the purpose of eradicating trafficking to join the Commission and strategically contribute.
Demand for services by victims of trafficking plays a strong role as a root cause as one of the
pull factors. In fact, the Directive 2011/36 sets the frame by obliging member states to take
effective and practical measures to curb demand and raise awareness on the phenomenon. It
further urges member states to consider measures for criminalizing the use of services with the
knowledge that the person is a victim of trafficking. To this end, the Commission is mandated by
the Directive to submit a report to the European Parliament and the Council, assessing the
impact of existing national law, accompanied by adequate proposals. This will be a crucial
development and a momentum in further forming relevant policies, and a demanding task I am
committed to. Working in partnership towards the eradication of trafficking in human beings is
our joint goal, and the private sector has a crucial role to play. I look forward to continuing
working on this issue and to increase cooperation with COBCOE and all those interested in
addressing this phenomenon. Myria Vassiliadouwas appointed EU Anti-Trafficking Coordinator
in March 2011. She has served as Secretary General of the European Women’s Lobby in the
EU and a founding member of the Think Tank, Mediterranean Institute of Gender. An Assistant
Professor of Sociology at the University of Nicosia, Myria has taught undergraduate and
graduate classes in Sociology. Myria has worked in the European Commission as a Detached
National Expert in the Directorate General for Research. She has served as a member of
various Advisory Boards, Expert Groups and acted as a consultant at the national and
international level. She has worked extensively in the area of fundamental rights related to
areas of trafficking in human beings, gender, migration, ethno-political conflict, and the media.
tHuman trafficking is one of the most lucrative illicit businesses in Europe, with criminal groups
making about $3bn from it per year. In Europe, over 140,000 victims are trapped in a situation of
violence and degradation. Up to 1 in 7 sex workers in Europe may have been enslaved into
prostitution through trafficking. Source: United Nations Once on Drugs and Crime, 2012
Parliamentarians Against Human Trafficking project is trying to do something about this by
bringing parliamentarians together in their own EU national parliaments to speak with one united
voice. In Wilberforce’s times of slavery, the problem was transparent; today it is hidden and
difficult to detect. Together with COBCOE, this important project, funded by the European
Commission, has persuaded 19 EU country parliaments to develop a proper strategy. On 16th
and 17th October 2012 some 100 parliamentarians will be meeting in London to review the 1st
year of operations and to consider what new initiatives are needed to maintain momentum. The
Speaker of the House of Commons is organizing an evening reception to give credence to the
conference and to mark Anti-Slavery Day which is on 18th October. Amongst many, the project
would aim to work with businesses through COBCOE during the coming year; small or large
#rms could other opportunities to help trafficked people, both men and women, with training,
internships and work experience, to help them by way of a transition experience. We already
 Poem
Girl alone or full on piled
As they slipped through blood,
“Oh this girl’s wild”
She didn’t know her breaths could be swallowed
Oh no, she was just a child
 
4, 5, who loses count?
“Where is my rescue,
What’s this about?”
 
Men on rotation
Hearing the bed shudder
Her soul-emptied isolation
Was their new world order
 
Orgasms of screams
Remembering the memes
Rape 1 in 5
But gangs sing 4 and he’s number 5
 
Definitely no lotion
Toilet paper wipes peel skin if you let them
The shush was supposedly potion
But their shakes just ripped her open
 
Her soul surrendering to the knives
Stomach hurls as the bones curl
“These men will surely give me hives”
All this time, still she never cries
Why? Why, God why?
 
My heart was pinned down in my stomach
No voice, nowhere to run, nowhere to hide
I would never lie. No never cry.
Too terrified of their clutch to ever do such
 
These men held my soul and took my dignity
Stole me, in and out, without a penny
They say working girl, but I just want to hurl
Now words swallowed in wails because pimps only want sales
 
Afterward, stripped bare, I struggled to do my hair
Pulled tight, who even cares about their height?
Not the cops, it’s not their fight
In the shower they loosed their power
Then the door opened and I flew from the night
This poem is about: 
Me
My community
Our world
Image Depicting Human Trafficking
 Reflection 1

The first artefact which is an article entitled” Human trafficking, the slavery of our times”
highlights the practices of modern-day human trafficking, and explains how hard it is to point out
that they are being trafficked in plain sight. The writer also used statistical evidence that shows
that number of women children and surprising even men who are in the human trafficking
system. The writer also illustrates in the article how European government continues to be
corrupt and insensitive to the problem of human Trafficking which is a very important issue not
only in Europe but also in the Caribbean for the entire Caribbean’s fore parents were human
trafficked as they were labored and abused both mentally and physically intensively for over 400
years by Europeans.

The second artefact a poem which the persona is speaking of an experience of girl being human
trafficked in more ways than one. The poem speaks about the fact that the girl was afraid and
helpless that she even had to asked god why all these horrid things were happening to her. The
persona also speaks about the fact that with hear being used and abused for so long that she even
become numb to the pain but it still affected her mentally more than anything. She even spoke
about the fact that her captures raped her and orgasmed which could allude to the fact they were
also mentally affected by something and that something in their past experience are making them
the horrible creatures they are today.

The Third piece of material was a picture showing a helpless girl being chained beacuase of
human trafficking her being chained up physically can also allude to the fact that she was also
caged mentally. The chain could also represent that she had no control over anything at all not
even her mind. The chains could also mean that she was being completely controlled. The
darkeness in the background could represent her mind has gone dark that she no longer has the
right to think feel or exist.
 Reflection 2
English Language was used profusely

https://powerpoetry.org/poems/diary-working-girl
https://ec.europa.eu/anti-trafficking/citizens-corner-clips-media-outreach/%E2%80%9Chuman-
trafficking-slavery-our-times%E2%80%9D_en