The exhibit will explore the origins and impact of, and/or the routes to change regarding trafficking in humans for sex slavery as it is occurring in present time. “Origins” may mean speculation upon the roots of the phenomenon, including demand, images and expectations of women in popular culture, spiritual factors, sexual mythologies, etc. “Impact” may mean emotional, economic, psychic, physical, spiritual, social, aesthetic or any other consequence the artist perceives. “Routes to change” may mean hope to create a world in which human beings are not bought and sold. Artists are expected to inform themselves on some aspect of the phenomenon (please see the links on this page for resources) in order to create relevant art.
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References
- A New US State Department Article About TEN
- Alabama Brothel Busted for Trafficking in Young Girls
- Article: "Globalization, Militarism and Sex Trafficking"
- Artist Susan Plum's Beautiful Installation for the Tortured and Murdered Women of Juarez
- Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
- Dreams of Freedom
- iAbolish -- American Anti-Slavery Group
- Justice for Children International
- Made by Survivors, from TEN
- NUESTRAS HIJAS DE REGRESO A CASA: Hundreds of Women Killed & Missing in Mexico
- NY Times Magazine Feature Article: "The Girls Next Door"
- Russian orphans extremely vulnerable to trafficking
- The Emancipation Network
- The Feminist Sexual Ethics Project Article: "Debate on Trafficking and Sex-Slavery"
- The MiraMed Institute: Russia's Children In Crisis
- The Polaris Project
- U.S. Department of State Trafficking in Persons Report
- U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services: Campaign to Rescue and Restore Victims of Human Trafficking
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: Trafficking in Human Beings
WHAT IS HUMAN TRAFFICKING FOR SEX SLAVERY?
The U.S. State Department estimates that close to one million women and girls are trafficked into the United States each year, most of them having been promised marriage, legitimate employment as nannies, or other work. Some women are brought in to “dance,” then coerced or forced into prostitution after the fact to pay off the “debt” to their “coyotes.”
Many young girls are kidnapped outright and forced into sexual labor.
Organized crime is highly involved. Internationally, the trafficking in persons has now surpassed the illegal drug and arms trades in moneys exchanged.
The International Labor Organization (ILO)—the United Nations (UN) agency charged with addressing labor standards, employment, and social protection issues—estimates there are 12.3 million people in forced labor, bonded labor, forced child labor, and sexual servitude at any given time; other estimates range from 4 million to 27 million.
This data shows that, of the estimated 600,000 to 800,000 men, women, and children trafficked across international borders each year, approximately 80 percent are women and girls, and up to 50 percent are minors. The data also demonstrates that the majority of transnational victims were trafficked into commercial sexual exploitation.
With a focus on transnational trafficking in persons, however, these numbers do not include millions of victims around the world who are trafficked within their own national borders.
It is important to note that human trafficking for the purpose of sexual slavery is a domestic as well as an international problem, with St. Louis reportedly functioning as a hub within the trafficking networks. Evidence exists that the so-called sex industry in the United States (escort services, brothels, strip clubs, street and message parlor prostitution) is in part fueled by dept bondage and captive persons, the vast majority of these being women and girls.
Many young girls are kidnapped outright and forced into sexual labor.
Organized crime is highly involved. Internationally, the trafficking in persons has now surpassed the illegal drug and arms trades in moneys exchanged.
The International Labor Organization (ILO)—the United Nations (UN) agency charged with addressing labor standards, employment, and social protection issues—estimates there are 12.3 million people in forced labor, bonded labor, forced child labor, and sexual servitude at any given time; other estimates range from 4 million to 27 million.
This data shows that, of the estimated 600,000 to 800,000 men, women, and children trafficked across international borders each year, approximately 80 percent are women and girls, and up to 50 percent are minors. The data also demonstrates that the majority of transnational victims were trafficked into commercial sexual exploitation.
With a focus on transnational trafficking in persons, however, these numbers do not include millions of victims around the world who are trafficked within their own national borders.
It is important to note that human trafficking for the purpose of sexual slavery is a domestic as well as an international problem, with St. Louis reportedly functioning as a hub within the trafficking networks. Evidence exists that the so-called sex industry in the United States (escort services, brothels, strip clubs, street and message parlor prostitution) is in part fueled by dept bondage and captive persons, the vast majority of these being women and girls.
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