"Analysis: Southeast Asia's Human Trafficking Conundrum." irinnews.org. 2013. Rpt.

in
Slavery and Human Trafficking. Ed. Noah Berlatsky. Farmington Hills, MI:
Greenhaven Press, 2016. Opposing Viewpoints. Opposing Viewpoints in Context.
Web. 18 Oct. 2016.
In this article the authur discusses the issues in Southeast Asia with trying to put a stop
to human trafficking such as little to no funding, corrupt police officers, and even the
extreme poverty of the nation. Many girls or even men are told they will be given a job
with good pay and are transported away from their homes to these jobs where they
began to get paid but then the pay is slowly withdrawn and they find themselves being
beaten and in some cases even raped, forced to do work for free. There has been in
ASEAN government a antitrafficking legsilation passed in majorty of the areas.
Countries often find themselves wanting to help combat human trafficking but lack the
funding and man power to end it. Although in some areas Jakarta Centre for Law
Enforcement Cooperation in Indonesia has begun educating law enforcement on how
to handle human trafficking and prevent it from occuring.The countries are so poor that
when brothels form around different areas they mostly benefit from the brothels
profits, the police often become so corrupt that they offer to help the brothels by
protecting them in exchange for money, therefore ateempting to shut them down upsets
those around the brothels as well due to it is whats kepping them alive. There are 497
districs and only 88 have anti-trafficking task forces attempting to end the extreme
amount of trafficking occuring. Majority of the people who are saved from human
trafficking end up back in it due to they begin starving and need money, therefore they

feel it is their only option. Police lack of funds to combat human trafficking cause them
to use what little money they do have to help these women and they can barely seem to
do it majority of the time because of their lack of funds.
This article describes the attempts and issues of trying to fight human trafficking in
Southeast Asia. It examines the troubles of each areas and reasons that it is difficult to
get them to coportate with efforts to fight the human trafficking in their areas.
I can use the information provided to help show in research paper how the attempts
being made to combat human trafficking in areas is not enough, we still aren't doing
enough to fight it which is leading to it continuously growing.
"Cindy McCain Talks About Her Work On Combating Sex Trafficking." Weekend Edition
Sunday 24 Apr. 2016. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 26 Oct. 2016.
Cindy McCain and her husband John McCain own the McCain Institute which is a company that
helps put money towards human trafficking. This includes rehabilitating the children and making
sure they can prevent it if possible. It all began when Cindy was in Calcutta India buying some
souvenirs inside a small shop. She heard a noise underneath the floorboard and asked the man
what it was. He simply responded "my family" which is normal in that area. But as she was
leaving she looked down and noticed eyes, dozens of pairs of eyes staring back at her. She didn't
realize it at the the time but these children were being sold as sex slaves, which she learned later
in life which is why the institute was started and still continues to this day.
This source is adequate to helping my research paper due to it offers the point that even Cinday
McCain, wife of Senator John McCain couldn't recognize human trafficking when it was right in
front of their faces. There institute does show now that they are trying to make a dent in
trafficking and a least this is an effort actually being taken in the United States.

I can use this broadcast to make an argument that even our highest people in the U.S. aren't
educated on human trafficking which is why it is continuing to occur. The argument I make
using these facts could also be that if our senators who have a big say in what goes on and they're
people who others actually listen to would educate those listening about human trafficking , we
might be able to make a dent in the trafficking rings.
Craig, Gary. "Human trafficking and the UK Modern Slavery Bill." Social Inclusion 3.1(2015):
136+. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 17 Oct. 2016.
According to Gary Craigs article, in 2007 an organization formed by the name of UK
Human Trafficking Centre, it contained many people gathering data on Human
trafficking occurrence in their area. After beginning the data the UK began to realize that
this was much bigger than expected, people were being smuggled in for multiple reasons,
such as sex, organ harvesting, or even working for no cost. A modern slavery bill draft
was presented in 2013 that focused on those in human trafficking that were women or
children under the age of 18 where as it didn't focus on those being trafficked to work for
little to no pay. The final draft was presented in 2014 to be examined by many parties as
well as giving the chance for people to present their opinions. The bill will present
children under the age of 18 with advocates for them. This bill is claimed to be the start
of putting a stop to human trafficking as other nations examine it and the idea of creating
a bill themselves.
This source comes from a document in an academic journal and is extremely helpful
by it shows that one area of the world is making the effortt to end human trafficking
through creating a bill which could increase the chance of others doing the same. The

article presents specific dates when the bill was created which will help my readers
understand that it is a reliable source I obtained these facts from.
This source will contribute large amounts of facts to my paper as it displays the facts of
what the United Nations is currently doing to end human trafficking as well as specific
facts about the bill. The article provides positives as well as negatives of what the bill
include which will help me show what the United Nations still needs to do to help stop
trafficking.
"Global Recession Boosts Child Prostitution and Trafficking." IRIN: Humanitarian News and
Analysis. 2009. Rpt. in Human Trafficking. Ed. Dedria Bryfonski. Detroit: Greenhaven
Press, 2013. Current Controversies. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 17 Oct.
2016.
In Southeast Asia they have been falling deeper into poverty as the government fails to
do anythingcausing an increase in human trafficking. The increase of those in poverty has
been mostly ignited by stronger imigration laws, a decrease in budgets for social services,
disastrous living situations, which all lead to a need for money creating easily deceived
people. Businesses have been shutting down leaving a extended amount of people
unemployed and desperate for a new job. The mindset of those buying women or men for
sex is often that they are helping them feed their families, therefore to them it isn't wrong.
The girls being trafficked are mainly 12 to 17 years old and often are found in the street
which is why they are so easy to attack. As the amounts of people being trafficked
continuously increases, Obama puts them on the watch list for areas that aren't doing
enough to stop human trafficking therefore if the number don't begin to decrease they
will face a penalty.

This source is extremely contributive to my research paper as it offers statistics based on

human trafficking in Southeast Asia as well as facts about how things work when it
comes to human trafficking. Poverty is the main cause of the increase in human
trafficking in Southeast Asia which will show my readers this is what we need to work
against if we expect a decrease rather than increase.
The article is applicable to my research question as it shows that rather than building
up Southeast Asia the government is destroying it and the people of Southeast Asia all
in the same process. The source gives me statistics to provide my readers with to make
my argument more convincing, which is extremely helpful to my research paper.
Matter, Bridgette. "Sex Trafficking Survivor Opens up to Tell Her Unbelievable Story." WJAX.
Action News Jax, 22 Sept. 2016. Web. 17 Oct. 2016.
In this article, Matter describes a girl by the name of Alyssa Beck, being in sex
trafficking. Beck offers up her story of everything shes been through during her time in
sex trafficking, she entered into sex trafficking when she ran away from home and then
got into a lot of trouble putting her into foster care where she met other girls who were in
sex trafficking. Alyssa believed she didnt know any better because no one ever taught
her another way or took the time to ask her why she was acting this way. The first
trafficker took her to a Jacksonville hotel, then to the Arlington area, followed by taking
her to customers in Town Center as well as the Ponte Vedra beaches. Beck identified that
the customers thought of her as an object rather than a young girl. When she finally had
the chance to run, she was given no help in Jail or anywhere therefore she ended up right
back in sex trafficking. When Beck ended up pregnant she was able to get out and is now
an expecting mother who has gotten help, she survived what many cant.

This article is useful to my argument to show that this is happening every day in our own
backyard and yet many of us dont even know that one simple fact. It shows the areas
many of us go every day, that are very popular among families yet none of us never
noticed the trafficking going on around us.
This source will be a big point in my article to show my reader, my classmates who live
in these areas, that we are ignoring human trafficking rather than doing anything about it.
This story is just one of many.
Miller, John R. "Slave trade: combating human trafficking." Harvard International Review
27.4 (2006): 70+. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 17 Oct. 2016.
In this article by John R. Miller, he claims that human trafficking often occurs when
people are persuaded they will be given what they desire or they are forced. Human
Trafficking occurs in numbers ranging from 600,000 to 800,00 a year just from those
trafficked across borders. These people are used to make a profit, or even to work
them for an extremely low payment. This continuous occurrence in such large
numbers does have consequences all across the world such as it spreads multiple
diseases as well it continues to help a growing crime rate increase. The worst scenario
that has transpired is when those that are supposed to be protecting people who have
been taken into human trafficking instead help it continue to grow by providing
criminals with documents to take other across the border. People are lured into
slavery through various ways such as threats against family and many times through
briberies of a job that pays well, this is mainly those in poverty who are needing this
money that are manipulated into trafficking. They're many covers for human
trafficking such as those who go across the world for school and in exchange do

house work to stay in the home but really it is human trafficking as well as "guest
worker" programs are a cover for human trafficking.
This source is reliable due to it comes from an academic journal and offers multiple facts rather
than claims. It helps show the various ways people end up in human trafficking and the amounts
of people that end up in human trafficking just in once section of the world.
I know this source will help my research paper as it will contribute to me explaining how people
end up in human trafficking. I also believe this article provides many existential facts to my
argument such as that 600,00 to 800,00 people a year are trafficked across international borders,
this will help me provide statics to my readers.
Neubauer, Chuck. "Stricter Laws and More Vigorous Prosecution Are Needed to Combat Sex
Trafficking." Human Trafficking. Ed. Dedria Bryfonski. Detroit: Greenhaven Press,
2013. Current Controversies. Rpt. from "Sex Trafficking in the U.S. Called 'Epidemic,'."
Washington Times23 Apr. 2011. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 19 Oct. 2016.
The author analyzes the current situations of victims after coming out of human
trafficking. He describes the situation of a girl who went into human trafficking at the
age of 14 who goes by the name of Jane. She grew up in a terrible home where she was
abused and when an older man offered her a supposedly better life, she took the offer
but found her self being beaten, forced to have sex with not only that man but 9 other
men a day. Jane was beat every time she didn't bring enough money into the man
controlling her. She felt she had no where to go until she was brought in by the FBI
under prostitution charges which instead turned into them sending her to a place that
would help her get back on her feet. The man who was in control of her was then put
into prison. It has been discovered that just In the United States 1.6 million minors are

trafficked every year. A program called GEMS was formed in 1997 to help girls from
the age of 12 to 24 that have made it out of human trafficking. Many girls are involved
in sex trafficking as it makes $32 billion every year. The women who created GEMS
was a victim of sex trafficking as well. The article has analyzed that between the ages
of 12 to 14 year old women are the most trafficked as well as sex trafficking is the
second largest criminal in the United States. Currently in Maryland it is the attorneys
focus to stop human trafficking but due to the traffickers use of all internet sources it is
difficult to find victims and save them from these horrific situations which is why the
Maryland human trafficking task force was formed in 2007 to help fight against it. To
fight human trafficking Oregon passed a bill to construct harsher punishments on those
conducting sex trafficking which Texas followed as well as Maryland. The state of
Maryland even has been conducting events to educate their officers more about human
trafficking. Eventually, other states continued to follow Oregon's example.
This article is useful in giving information about victims as well the age of what
victims range from and the amount that are trafficked each year. It also offers
information about states correcting bills to fight against human traffickers as well as
what many others are doing in their districts.
This source helps me develop my research paper through the examples of people who
have been involved in human trafficking and how they are being help get through the
after math effects of it. It provides me with information on what states are doing to
help decrease the amount of human trafficking going on.
Renda, Lauren. "The Open Border Between Nepal and India Promotes Human Trafficking."
Slavery and Human Trafficking. Ed. Noah Berlatsky. Farmington Hills, MI:

Greenhaven Press, 2016. Opposing

Viewpoints. Rpt. from "Across the

Border: Nepal's Struggle with Human Trafficking." thewip.net. 2012. Opposing

Viewpoints in Context. Web. 17 Oct. 2016.
This article discusses the issue of the border between India and Nepal being open
which increases the amount of people being trafficked across. The government isn't doing
anything to help where as organizations not associated with the government are
attempting to help reduce the amount of human trafficking occurring. Those coming from
Nepal are being trafficked into other countries with the promise of citizenship as well as
passports but then when they arrive they are kept from them forcing them to work a never
ending attempt to gain them. Nepal's lack of government makes it increasingly harder to
end the human trafficking occurring as well as once people leave it tends to be hard for
them to come back into the society once they have been brutally sexually abused.
Although Nepal's has joined the United Nations in signing the "Protocol to Prevent,
Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons" which has helped in some ways but still
their lack of government is the biggest issue arising to put a stop to human trafficking.
Overall the same situations seems to be happening in both Nepal as well as India to
people all over the world, the lack of poverty continues to make people increasingly
inconsiderate of offers.
This article is extremely useful as it helps me obtain facts about what areas of the world
aren't doing to help people involved in human trafficking get what they deserve. I found
that this offered a chance for me to prove my thesis that nations aren't doing enough.
This source is useful to answering my research paper as it helps me show both sides as to
the government doing nothing but citizens trying to end human trafficking. This article

provides me with examples as to how people are being dragged into human trafficking
through promises or even threats.
Smith, Joy. "Two private member's Bills that made Canadian history." Canadian
Parliamentary ReviewSpring 2013: 4+. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web.
17 Oct. 2016.
The author presents the readers with his personal experience of how he became
involved with putting a stop to human trafficking through his son. Smith talks about it
happening in his own backyard in Canada, young children being trafficked all
throughout Canada. People brought into sex trafficking are often manipulated, taken in
by cruel people, and then physically and mentally abused. The author began working
with parliament to stop human trafficking and to educate others on how to put an end
to it. He followed this advance by fighting to get his motion passed which states that
the house finds a way to began fighting human trafficking, this motion was passed.
smith was also able to help change the criminal code for sex traffickers to give them an
extended amount of time in prison, this is known as Bill C-268. Canada's National
Action Plan to end human trafficking help raise awareness in vulnerable
populations, extended a hand to victims, and educated those about how to identify
human trafficking. The author attacked human trafficking by finding every way
possible to start educating people about it and putting an end by making extreme
punishments.
This article is suitable to my research question as it gives examples of how people are
trying to put an end to human trafficking through laws, educating others, and even a

program to help the people who make it out. This source mainly focuses on Canadian
human trafficking and what that specific country is doing to fight human trafficking.
This source is going to help me educate my readers on what Canada is doing
specifically to stop human trafficking in comparison to where we live. It givesspecific
examples of laws, motions, and even bills passed to help those in human trafficking.
Stancil, Kaitlynn. "Cambodian Human Trafficking." Personal interview. 20 Oct. 2016.
I interviewed Kaitlynn based upon her experience in taking a mission trip to Cambodia,
one of the top human trafficking areas in the world, to help these children at a non-profit
organization known as the Raphahouse. The Rapha house helps girls who have either escaped or
been saved from human trafficking get back on their feet by teaching them English, how to grow
food, and even giving them the medical attention their bodies need after such a horrific event.
Most of these girls are often runaways from the human trafficking due to the police officers are
so corrupt they usually don't ever save the girls. The richest people in Cambodia are the
traffickers which is why its so easy for them to pay off a police officer with a starving family at
home. In this area the biggest issue is the poverty which is what leads to the human trafficking,
as traffickers offer people, girls and boys, a nice job that will pay them good and help them send
money back to their families, well then they take them away to this supposed job and their
families never see them again, as they are thrown into human trafficking. Kaitlynn noted while
she was there a young boy carrying a nearly newborn baby come up to her asking her for money
for milk, she stated "Of course I wanted to give this young boy milk but we were warned he
would take the money back to the traffickers, we were also warned that if he didn't make enough
money in one day then he would be beaten." The girls in the Rapha house range from as young
as 3 years old to 16 years old, it is often found though that most of the girls are the age of 13 year

old. As the Rapha house helps these girls enter back into society through counseling, they often
aren't accepted back into society due to the Buddhism religion which claims that if you have sex
before marriage you are a dog, worthless even if you were raped. Many girls end up going back
into trafficking because their mind set has become that they are already worthless but a least they
can make the choice to go back and help their starving families. I then asked Kaitlynn what is the
best way to put a stop to human trafficking, she told me " We just need to really educate people
about what is going on, what to look for, to be aware that human trafficking exists not just in
Cambodia but in our own backyard. There is a foundation by the name of Myrtle tree that helps
the girls in Cambodia go to college and get degrees so they don't have to go back into human
trafficking, you can donate to that or even just volunteer to help with the fundraisers which
Rapha House does as well." People are not only sex trafficked but they are trafficked to work for
nothing and become beaten every day, many Cambodians attempt to come to the U.S. and are
offered Visas but then they get to the U.S.where the traffickers withhold the visas and force them
to work a never ending attempt for these visas. It is a never ending trafficking ring for btoh men
and women.
This interview is going to help me show the efforts made for the specific area of Cambodia from
a source who has helped specifically in this area and has seen what goes on in that area. I will be
able to offer a solution to my readers to human trafficking that could possibly make a huge
indent in the trafficking ring if we only tried. The information Kaitlynn provided about the
Rapha house as well as the Myrtle Tree foundation will prove to my readers we are doing
something to help those in Cambodia.
My source is extremely reliable as she is a missionary herself and has been to Cambodia to see
all the trafficking that has gone on as well as she has even spoken to women who have made it

out of human trafficking about their experiences. This will help my research paper because its a
source that has been up close and personal with the effects of human trafficking.
Tan, Zhai Yun. "FBI sting shows child sex trafficking still thriving in United States." Christian
Science Monitor 18 Oct. 2016. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 17 Oct. 2016.
The author, Tan, discusses the FBIs most recent operation called "Operation Cross
Country X" which within 3 days saved 82 underage victims while arresting 239 pimps.
The article describes a girl who was abused as a child and went into modeling which
while trying to work her way to the top ended up in sex trafficking without even
knowing it at first till it was to late. She believed she would die either way if she stayed
or if she tried to make a run for it. The trafficking occurs all throughout the U.S. but
everyone pretends it doesn't exist in our own backyard. The FBIs operation helps go into
the areas where human trafficking is occurring the most and break it down. When kids
get arrested for causing trouble they often just see a criminal rather than trying to
understand why they did what they did. Human trafficking isn't often discovered due to
people don't ask troubled kids often enough why they are acting out. Just in this year
3,00 cases have appeared in the U.S. & 'majority of cases in anywhere are U.S. citizens
being trafficked. The Trafficking Protection Acts offers protection to victims and a longer
punishment on the traffickers, it was established in the year 2000. The author believes
increased awareness of human trafficking would help decrease the amount of victims.

This source is helping my research paper by providing information on what we're doing
here in our own country as well as what goes on in our own country with human

trafficking. It gives me statistics based on how many people are trafficked a year in the
U.S. which presents a more appealing argument to my readers.
This article is helpful to my argument as it provides facts about trafficking in the U.S.
which my readers will want to know most about due to its where they live at.
Weissmueller, Zach. "The wrong cure for sex trafficking: prohibition of prostitution does not
make it safer." Reason May 2014: 60+. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 17 Oct.
2016.
In this article the author discusses the Golden State law in California to conduct worse
criminal penalties for those guilty of sex trafficking. The author argues the side that
making prostitution legal will help end human trafficking, as it is legal in Nevada.
According to Nevada the legalization of brothels has helped keep prostitutes from getting
any diseases as they are tested weekly. Nevada believes setting restrictions wont stop
people, they will just do it illegally anyways and it will make it unsafe for those in the
brothels. Overall, the best way to end human trafficking according to the article is to
make prostitution legal.
This source offers a different point of view of legalizing prostitution to help end human
trafficking rather than keep fighting it for a way to stop human trafficking. This offers my
readers a different point of view on what could help human trafficking.
By using this source I can show my readers a side that most people wouldnt look at for a
way to stop human trafficking which will help my readers see that we have to look at all
options.
"Women religious combat human trafficking." America 5 Nov. 2007: 7. Opposing Viewpoints in
Context. Web. 17 Oct. 2016.

In this article is discusses what people are doing to help end Human Trafficking, such as
a group of nuns in 26 different areas were able to began a program called International
Network of Religious Against Trafficking in Persons. This program help those in
Human Trafficking to have a reason to leave due to they provide food and shelter for
them which Is mainly why many people dont try and escape, they dont have anything
to escape to. The U.S funded a conference for these people to be trained to help those
who do escape. The raising awareness of human trafficking is giving more people a
chance to come out of it as many were forced in through their poverty situations. Human
Trafficking has become such a high money making business due to the forced labor of 12
million people. As these networks are forming around the world it is hoped to help put a
stop to Human Trafficking rather than let it continuously increase.
This article helps my research paper show the side of what people are doing to end
Human Trafficking as well as to show how much Human Trafficking is really going on in
todays world. They have examined how the United States has become involved and they
really are making the efforts to help form organizations to end it in more than just their
country,
I can use the amounts give in this article to help show how much Human Trafficking
makes as well as that the United States is making an effort to stop traffickers.