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The Good(s), Bad and the Ugly! Corporate Responsibility and Cultural Roles in Fostering Human Trafficking in North America, Latin America and Asia: How Government Regulations on Corporate Products Might Prevent Human Trafficking?

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The Good(s), Bad and the Ugly! Corporate Responsibility and Cultural Roles in Fostering Human Trafficking in North America, Latin America and Asia: How Government Regulations on Corporate Products Might Prevent Human Trafficking?

Introduction

Human trafficking is a form of slavery (sexual or labor) that involves abduction, deceit or violence. Trafficking victims are often recruited by deception (such as false job or misleading offers that do not clarify the conditions under which it will to do the job offer) and moved to where they can be exploited. In places of exploitation, victims are held by their captors by threats, debt lies, coercion, violence, etc., and forced to prostitution or work in subhuman conditions. The United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially women and children is the instrument containing the definition of trafficking of people agreed internationally.

The main elements of the definition are: -

Uplifting by abduction or deception)

Transfer (within the same country or between countries)

Sexual Exploitation: the purpose of sexual exploitation, mainly working-through threats, violence, coercion, and so on. This means that human trafficking is a process that includes several actions: recruitment or abduction, transfer (whether within a country or between different countries), the reception and accommodation of victims in the destination, and operating in a context of threats, deception, coercion and violence.

The sale of human beings as a working or sex slaves, for adoption or removal of organs is increasing and is at least as lucrative as the drug trade: the gains are estimated to 31 billion dollars per year. It is a market and includes only prices. There is talk of supply and demand, profits, cost reduction and demand matching, division of labor, supplies, and international connections. Perfectly normal, it seems, such as production and trade now work even in a predominantly market economies the world. But - it is not a normal goods, it is about people.

Who pays the Supplied?

People are acting like cars or machines, such as drugs or weapons, in whole or in part, serve as spare parts, no matter: who pays, which will be delivered and the needs of the people to use and exploit his peers seems inexhaustible. In Guatemala deserves a ruthless army of notaries, lawyers and officials in thousands of adoptions in the year and is fighting back against a new law to control the adoption process more intensively. Often the mothers their children are not just buying but actually stolen. "I had taken with Esther to work. Suddenly there were two men and two women, "says Ana Escobar, 26, the staff of the Foundation Sobrevivientes" in Guatemala City. One of the men threatened the young woman with a gun, took her seven-month daughter in her arms and closed them in a room. Since then, Ana has her child ...