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Human Trafficking In America Is the MOST SIGNIFICANT Social Issue of Our Times Just what is innocentsatrisk.org trafficking? Although the act of human trafficking has been going on for many years, it has only been a couple of years (2000) since the US Trafficking Protocol (the Palermo Protocol of 2000, a global legal agreement attached to the United Nations) was established containing the initial internationally arranged definition of human trafficking with the knowing that it's the force, fraud, and coercion in one person to the next that defines the essence of the crime. People often tell me that they think human trafficking is moving folks from one country to the next, and while that is clearly a part of what the act really is, the heart of the issue is the mental and emotional movement of a person by another. The U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) (created as a result of the UN Protocol) leaves out what things to me is the most important aspect of the definition and therefore makes it more difficult to prove an incident in court against alleged traffickers. The center of the U.N. Trafficking Protocol defines human trafficking as: the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or usage of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a posture of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or advantages to achieve the consent of a person having control over someone else, for the purpose of exploitation. The US-TVPA is weak and should use in it the terminology in keeping with the U.N. Protocol since it further distinguishes that traffickers use deception, and abuse of power, or of a position of vulnerability, when seeking their victims. Traffickers look for the vulnerable focusing on how to deceive and manipulate them - the worst form of abduction - by causing someone to lose rely upon those they ought to trust the most. It requires an eternity to "re-program" someone who has been manipulated in this manner. Human trafficking should be placed near the top of the list of crucial social issues. In current human trafficking advocacy circles, traditional methods of trafficking have already been the focus and prohibit real discovery in to the reality of what is causing modern-day slavery. Poverty, homelessness, runaways, broken families, high school drop-out rates, pornography (mass media): each are stand-alone social conditions that merit our time and attention. Each brings with them a different group of issues that demand attention from those people who are whole in our society. Yet whenever we look at human trafficking, we see these issues wrapped up into the one almost such as a domino effect. Each one of these issues is a contributing factor to those areas fueling human trafficking. And, I dare say, each of these issues are caused by one giant controlling america and manipulating our every move - greed. Traffickers not merely look for vulnerable and at-risk youth, they target the male population to enlist them as buyers.