Major Sporting Events= Sex

Major Sporting Events Become Breeding Grounds For Business

During the NFL Super Bowl and The FIFA World Cup big business is a major part of the success of these sporting events.

Millions of fans come and partake in the experience, preparing months in advance by purchasing tickets, paraphernalia, securing hotels, car rentals, etc.

However, many fail to realize that these huge sporting events become breeding grounds for the business of human trafficking.

               Women, and children, young boys and girls are abducted during these events.

Held every four years, the World Cup is seen as a way to strengthen the market of human trafficking. Along with the prices of entertainment, alcohol, drugs, women and children are sold at a higher price to increase profit.

Some studies estimated that during the 2010 World Cup 100,000 people would fall prey to the schemes of human trafficking. Most of these individuals would be women and children.

Here is a scenario quoted in “Sex Trafficking- Big Business During the World Cup.”

“They’ll go up to a group of kids and say, ‘Oh, I see you’re playing soccer, would you like to go to a soccer camp?’ There may be a few games that come out of it, but it’s all a plan to later abduct them and force children into sex slavery,” asserts Schneider.

Even the NFL Super Bowl creates a buzz. According to the  Florida Coalition Against Human Trafficking, tens of thousands of sex trafficking victims were brought to Florida to service the increased demand for commercial sex around the games.

With the 2011 Super Bowl game in Texas slowly approaching, law makers are getting prepared now. The task force will train law enforcement to recognize the signs of trafficking and see individuals as victims rather than criminals. Also, american airlines are training flight attendants to spot signs of trafficking along with others precautions in place.

Source: msnbc.msn.com, sports.espen.go.com, newamericamedia.org

Human Trafficking @ the Super Bowl

The A21 Campaign is team with a mission to abolish world slavery in the 21st century, yes human slavery still exists, its known as human trafficking. With more than 4 campuses world wide the A21 campaign has shared what goes on behind the scenes during Super Bowl Sunday.

The PROBLEM is in the NUMBERS

 

 

                       

 

This information from “STOP THE TRAFFIK”, an independent international charity calls attention to questioning the worldwide scale of human trafficking.

Due to the hidden and illegal nature of human trafficking, gathering statistics on the scale of the problem is difficult. The following statistics may represent an underestimation of trafficking, but are the most credible and frequently quoted.

• People trafficking is the fastest growing means by which people are enslaved, the fastest growing international crime, and one of the largest sources of income for organised crime
  The UN Office on Drugs and Crime
• 1.2 million children are trafficked every year
  Estimate by UNICEF
• At least 12.3 million people are victims of forced labour worldwide.  Of these 2.4 million are as a result of human trafficking.
  A global alliance against forced labor, International Labour Organisation, 2005
• 600,000-800,000 men, women and children are trafficked across international borders each year. Approximately 80 per cent are women and girls. Up to 50% are minors.
  US Department of State Trafficking in Persons Report 2005
• The majority of trafficked victims arguably come from the poorest countries and poorest strata of the national population.
  A global alliance against forced labor, International Labour Organisation, 2005
• Human trafficking in the second largest source of illegal income worldwide exceeded only by drugs trafficking.
  (belser 2005)
• There are even reports that some trafficking groups are switching their cargo from drugs to human beings, in a search of high profits at lower risk.
  Un office on drugs and crime

• People are trafficked into prostitution, begging, forced labour, military service, domestic service, forced illegal adoption, forced marriage etc.
• Types of recruitment; include abduction, false agreement with parents, sold by parents, runaways, travel with family, orphans sold from street or institutions.

Source: stopthetraffik.org

Snap shots of truth

The photos taken by Jonathan Taylor, allows us to witness the horrific truth of Human Trafficking.

My Heart For Human Trafficking

 

Human Trafficking was a topic that crossed my path in 2010. Since then, it has become an issue that will not escape me.

I was first informed about the topic at my church here in Gainesville, Fl.

The Sunday sermon on human trafficking began to generate questions of why…

     -Why would men sell women and children as if they were packaged store market meat?

                -Why would the innocence of a child be exploited for profit?

                                  -Why would someone do this?

Then the pastor went on to expressed that a child whose life that is confined to a brothel or the sex industry, has no way out unless they are rescued.

From there he tells the story of a missionary whose purpose is to rescue children from this industry. He poses as a pimp in Asia and buys these children and places them in his orphanage. 

                                                                         An orphanage of rehabilitation and hope.

From there, the children are treated and tested for all diseases and given the opportunity to become kids again. This is the hard part because it take time for the children to trust again.

As he is telling this story, my heart begins to break.

I began to think of how little boys and girls are being abuse, while their bodies take on sexual blow after sexual blow.

                                                            The REASON: temporary sexual pleasure.

They are snatched out of childhood and forced into a life of sexual slavery.

I was disgusted and felt the call to do some! As a college student my call to action became this blog as well as covering this issue in prayer.

Therefore, every chance I get to inform someone of this horrible reality, I take full advantage because if I were in their place, I’d hope someone would open up there month to make a difference for me.

Introducing Human Trafficking

Holly Burkhalter,

IJM Vice President of government and advocacy stated: “The TIP Report is an international treasure. Its honest accounting of slavery and trafficking in the U.S. and around the world is a tool that benefits government reformers, anti-trafficking activists, and most of all, enslaved children, women and men.”

Human Trafficking is estimated to be a seven billion dollar industry that consumes the lives of innocent little boys and girls, abroad and in the United States.

Children are sold off to whom they believe are self established businessmen by their families. The families of these children are told that their child will be offered better opportunities in the United States. In reality, after laving their country, these children are stripped of their visas and placed in the industry of human trafficking.

This type of modern-day slavery takes many forms including child forced labor. For instance, many children in Central and South America, Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia, and even America are sold and forced to work in sweatshops, cocoa fields and the commercial industry (pornography).

 The health and living conditions of these children are outrageous. Many of them live in crowded, dirt brothels to satisfy the pleasures of sex tourist.

The owners, known as dealers, sell children as young as two years old and as old as 14. They are often referred to as meat. It is known among buyers and sellers, the younger the child, the more expensive.

The Children suffer from HIV and AIDS, Tuberculosis, Cholera, and Hepatitis while being sold to potential buyers.

As readers, you may ask, why would an individual take part in such corrupt activity?

My response is this, the same question has fueled the purpose of this blog and through my postings I hope to answer this question.

Source:

International Justice Mission (ijm.org)