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Estimating the Prevalence of Human Trafficking in the United States: Considerations and Complexities: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
Estimating the Prevalence of Human Trafficking in the United States: Considerations and Complexities: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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She said the conditions to which human trafficking victims are subjected -- such as dangerous work environments, exposure to communicable diseases, lack of access to adequate health care, and physical and mental abuse -- can have profoundly negative implications throughout the victims' lives. Fink called the issue a bipartisan congressional priority, and she highlighted the passing of the Trafficking Victims' Protection Act (2017)
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(Sheldon Zhang, Planning Committee Member) DEFINING HUMAN TRAFFICKING Human trafficking has many names -- pimp control, commercial sex, exploitation, forced labor, modern slavery, child labor, and several others -- and can take many forms: The definitions vary greatly across countries and cultures, as well as among researchers.
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Davina Durgana (Planning Committee Member) said the GSI operates by the understanding that in order for modern slavery to occur, there needs to be a vulnerable victim, a motivated offender, and the absence of a capable guardian.
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asked the workshop participants to consider what it would take to make child labor trafficking a priority in data collection in the same way that agencies have prioritized the commercial sexual exploitation of children. Meredith Dank (John Jay College of Criminal Justice)
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Shively also acknowledged that the method they chose could potentially work against finding people who are currently trafficked because current victims may have less access to care, less mobility, and may still be actively under the control of a trafficker. Surveys and Sampling Dank described some of the labor trafficking and commercial sex trafficking studies she has conducted on grants from federal agencies, including HHS, NIJ, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
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He and his colleagues tested his method on existing datasets in both the United States and abroad, such as empirical datasets based on injection drug users and commercial sex workers, and found it to provide efficient estimates of population size. Multiple Systems Estimation Bernard Silverman (Planning Committee Member)
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Department of Labor designed to examine the state of available human trafficking data, highlight gaps in knowledge, and communicate findings to policy makers. The project, which involves input from IOM and UNU-CPR, is intended to build greater research capacity and interest among researchers across disciplines to study forced labor, child labor, and human trafficking through grants and online educational tools.
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, was formed to promote a fair global playing field for workers in the United States and around the world by enforcing trade commitments, strengthening labor standards, and combating international child labor, forced labor, and human trafficking.7 One of the office's major research products is an annual report of the findings on the worst forms of child labor, authorized by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, which currently includes a list of 148 goods produced by forced labor, child labor, and forced child labor. Damme said impact evaluations conducted in Nepal to measure the effectiveness of mass media campaigns in decreasing vulnerability to child and forced labor found that danger narratives -- ones portraying the victims in hopeless situations -- were much less effective in reducing vulnerability than empowerment narratives that showed victims finding support to get out of trafficking situations.
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LINKING PREVALENCE TO POLICY Sheldon Zhang (Planning Committee Member) said that human-trafficking prevalence estimation essentially boils down to two basic questions: What to count and how to count it?
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reinforced the notion that while human-trafficking prevalence estimation is an important tool for leveraging resources, garnering attention from policy makers, and coordinating law enforcement efforts, it alone will not solve the problem. Preventing human trafficking will require coordination across disciplines and fields.
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Department of Health and Human Services; Davina Durgana, Walk Free Foundation; Megan Price, Human Rights Data Analysis Group; Sir Bernard Silverman, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham; and Sheldon Zhang, School of Criminology and Justice Studies, University of Massachusetts, Lowell. DISCLAIMER: This Proceeding of a Workshop -- in Brief was prepared by Jordyn White, rapporteur, as a factual summary of what occurred at the meeting.
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