Human Trafficking and Pornography: Familiar Bedfellows Using the Trafficking Victims Protection Act to Prosecute Trafficking for the Production of Internet Pornography

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison June Luzwick
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Trafficking Victims Protection Act ◽  
Internet Pornography ◽  
Trafficking Victims

scholarly journals Taxation Of Mandatory Restitution Received By Victims Of Human Trafficking

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Christine Haynes ◽  
Bruce M. Bird ◽  
Mark Wills ◽  
Adam Cleek
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Internal Revenue Service ◽  
Trafficking Victims Protection Act ◽  
Internal Revenue ◽  
Gross Income ◽  
Trafficking Victims ◽  
Available Resources

<p>In Notice 2012-12, the Internal Revenue Service announced that awards of mandatory restitution received by victims of human trafficking under 18 U.S.C. 1593 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 are excluded from gross income. This article examines the basic provisions of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, the calculation of mandatory restitution, publicly available resources involving human trafficking, and the taxability of damages involving physical versus nonphysical injury under civil law.</p>

Human Trafficking Efforts to Protect Connecticut's Vulnerable Children and Youth: Incorporating the Voices of Community Practitioners

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 382-399
Author(s):  
Miriam G. Valdovinos ◽  
Rebecca L. Thomas ◽  
Lorin N. Tredinnick ◽  
Maritza Vasquez Reyes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
The United States ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Child Victims ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Vulnerable Children ◽  
Trafficking Victims Protection Act ◽  
Trafficking Victims

Research demonstrates a growing number of exploited and trafficked children in the United States, but few studies address how practitioners continue to respond to these issues. Multiple efforts identify victims of human trafficking and provide services since the passing of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) in 2000 and its reauthorization. However, the TVPA oftentimes failed to protect the most vulnerable. This qualitative study included four focus group sessions with 28 practitioners from various disciplines (e.g., social work, healthcare, legal) to examine how the state of Connecticut has expanded services and programs for children and youth trafficking victims. The findings describe current statewide partnerships along with challenges and successes when working with child victims of human trafficking, offering practice and policy recommendations.

The Importance of Ethnic Competency: Labor Trafficking, Thai Migrations, and the Thai Community Development Center

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-74
Author(s):  
Sudarat Musikawong ◽  
Chanchanit Martorell
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Immigrant Community ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Labor Trafficking ◽  
Trafficking Victims Protection Act ◽  
Ethnic Organizations ◽  
American Citizenship ◽  
Trafficking Victims ◽  
Development Center

The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (2000, 2011) created new conditional residency visas and new avenues for American citizenship for the victims of human trafficking. Thai migrants have benefited from its provisions, but their disproportionate presence in this category has indicated the depths of this problem within the Thai immigrant community. This paper examines anti-trafficking advocacy, and it begins by criticizing existing Asian American pan-ethnic organizations. It addresses the limits of their approaches, and argues that ethnic-specific organizations still play an important role in helping victims as well as the ethnic communities in which they will settle.

Measuring the Hidden Numbers of Human Trafficking Through Multiple Systems Estimation: Lessons Learned and Challenges Outstanding

2021 ◽  
pp. 001112872098719
Author(s):  
Davina Durgana ◽  
Jan van Dijk
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Multiple Systems ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Prevalence Estimates ◽  
Trafficking Victims ◽  
Developed Nations ◽  
Further Development

This article takes stock of studies conducted in eight countries to estimate the prevalence of human trafficking by employing the technique of Multiple Systems Estimation on data on victims of human trafficking recorded by state and non-state institutions. It presents an overview of MSE-based prevalence estimates of human trafficking victims per 100,000 inhabitants of these countries, disaggregated by type of exploitation, gender, and age. For some countries it also presents the different likelihoods of various sub-categories of trafficking victims, such as minors and migrant workers, to be detected by authorities and/or NGOs. Next, the article recounts what these studies have taught us about the suitability of applying MSE on existing multi-source databases to estimate the prevalence of trafficking victimization. The article concludes with a discussion on the promises and limitations of MSE and its prospects for further development, especially among developed nations.

scholarly journals "You Are Never Truly Free" Social Stigma in India and its Impact Upon Rehabilitation, Reintegration and Advocacy for Survivors of Sex Trafficking

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Sumu Diya Mukesh
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Sex Trafficking ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Trafficking Victims

<p>This research examines how social stigmas related to sex work and sexual activity in India contribute to the creation of environments conducive to gender discrimination and the erosion of female rights. It seeks to understand, through the work of anti-trafficking staff and the lived experience of sex trafficking survivors in Kolkata, how this subsequently impacts survivors' ability to be successfully rehabilitated and reintegrated into their communities. Human trafficking directly limits the human rights and freedoms which development aims to facilitate and realise; it is fundamentally a development concern. Violations of human rights are a cause and a consequence of trafficking in persons, making their universal promotion and protection relevant to anti-trafficking. Females constitute 80 per cent of all sex trafficking victims, demonstrating that it is a significantly gendered crime. India is home to 40 per cent of the estimated global slave population, and operates as a destination, transit and origin country for all forms of human trafficking.   This research involved semi-structured interviews focused on experiences and understandings of social stigma with eight staff of the anti-trafficking NGO Sanlaap, one staff member of a partnering Government-run shelter home, and one focus group with eight sex trafficking survivors. Data were analysed thematically through concepts of human rights, social stigma, gender discrimination and vulnerability.  The results indicated that prioritising the protection and promotion of their human rights was integral to Sanlaap's success in rehabilitating and reintegrating survivors. This research, therefore, reinforces conceptual links between human rights violations and sex trafficking, and argues that preventative action needs to have a more central role in current anti-trafficking efforts. The results demonstrate that stigma is a manifestation of power, which enables the subordination and displacement of vulnerable groups, reinforces inequality and power imbalances, and continues to undermine survivor rights to reintegration. This study also highlights where there is a need to advance discourse about cultural rights and sexuality within anti-trafficking work in India, and to implement broader approaches to women's development as part of sex trafficking prevention strategies.</p>

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