Human Trafficking

Today we had english all day at school. The main topic of todays content was human trafficking, who is a strong and touching theme. We saw the movie called "taken" who showed how humans are trafficked and how their basic human rights are taken away from them. Sadly human trafficking happens worldwide and can happen to anyone. Humans can be trafficked for domestic labor, forced prostitution and so on. The following questions is the task that we did after seeing the movie. We worked in pairs and found the answers together. The day was very educational, interesting and full of impressions. I learned a lot that I had no idea of from before.

Questions to human trafficking

TASK 1 asking and answering

1. How was the woman persuaded to go to the US?

   - She was told that her children could go to a boarding school, who is a big thing for girls in africa. She was also told that she would clean a house and be well paid.

   
   
2. What kind of work did she do?
   

   
   

   - She was a domestic slave. She took care of the children, a two year old and a baby. She cooked every meal, worked 100 hours a week and only got 70$ a month. She also did gardening and cleaning.
   

   
   

   Under what conditions did she work?
3. -She worked alot, and didn't get the money that she should have earned and promised. She was told to not talk to anyone and was responsible for everything in the household.
   

   
   

   How did she get out?
4. -She contacted immigration attorney and got her rights back. There was put up charges against the couple she worked for.  
   

   
   

   Where is Edwin Canilang from?
   

   
   
5. -Edwin Canilang was from the Philippines.
   

   
   

   Why did he come to canada?
   
   
6. He came to Canada he thought he got the opportunity to work with welding and plumbing. He also came to Canada because he was promised good wages and a steady job
   

   
   

   What kind of work was he put to?
   
   
7. He was put to picking garbage and digging ditches, which was not the job he was promised.   
   

   
   

   How did he get away?
   
   
8. - One of the men escaped and called the Philippine embassy, which came to rescue them.

   
   

   How many people are smuggled into canada?
   
   
9. - Around 800 workers are trafficked into Canada yearly, and another 1000 or more pass through Canada.

TASK 5 vocabulary 

In the text there was a lot of difficult words, and the fifth task asked us to translate them, in this way we learned a lot of new words to expand our vocabulary.

Forpliktelser - duties

Advokat - attorney

Forlatt - abandoned

Kroppsarbeid - Labor
Årlig - yearly

Påskudd - pretense

Rykte - rumor

TASK 6 quick research

A brief summary about Human trafficking

Human trafficking is a way to exploit people. Persons are sold bought and traded much like modern-day slaves. It's estimated to be a five-to-nine billion dollar a year industry. Trafficking victims are typically recruited by being forced or because they are deceived or tricked. Fraud and power abuse are also methods commonly used. The victim can slo simply be kidnapped. Different types of abuse such as for example threats,

violence and economic problems can often make a victim consent to exploitation. Exploitation includes forcing people into prostitution or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs. For children, exploitation may also include forced prostitution, illegal international adoption, trafficking for early marriage or recruitment of child soldiers, beggars, for sports or for religious cults. The norms based on international human rights law, such as Vienna Declaration and Yogyakarta Principles prohibit human trafficking. The act is illegal but growing fast.

Countries of origin are shown in red, destination countries are shown in blue; Data is from the UN, in 2006

If you wish to educate yourself more on Human trafficking I recommend you to see the movie "Taken" or go to this website,  watch this short clip, or read up on some statistics or donate to help victims here.
-Eivor 

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