Ending Human Trafficking

In this episode of the Ending Human Trafficking Podcast, GCWJ Director Dr. Sandra Morgan and Board Member Dave Stachowiak discuss the 2014 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report released in June 2014. Compiled by the US State Department, the TIP Report is a special country study model that evaluates the efforts of each country to pursue prevention and protection for victims, as well as prosecution for traffickers. Each year, the TIP report provides an overview of what is happening globally in the fight against human trafficking. Additionally, the TIP report honors TIP Heroes, individuals who are working to end human trafficking in their countries. Highlights of this year’s report include survivor quotes from our friends Carissa Phelps (Episode 19) and Shyima Hall (Episode 73). Finally, a new feature in this year’s TIP Report is Media Best Practices. This is a very important guide for journalists, filmmakers, non-profits, and any other groups pursuing human trafficking media projects. Tune in to this episode to hear Dr. Morgan’s overview of the Media Best Practices and understand how you can help make a difference!

Resources:

2014 Trafficking in Persons Report

Carissa Phelps’s Podcast Episode

Shyima Hall’s Podcast Episode

OCHTTF Annual Report

Global Center for Women and Justice

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On this episode of the Ending Human Trafficking Podcast, GCWJ Director Sandra Morgan led a conversation with Kim Yim and Shayne Moore, co-authors of Refuse To Do Nothing, at the Women of Vision, Orange County Faces of Change event in May 2014. These two abolitionist mothers seek to share with others how to strive to be global thinkers and advocates no matter the age of your children and busyness of life, in order to break through the thoughts that we cannot make a difference in this global problem. Kim and Shayne share their stories about how we can not only seek to understand but to take the next steps by thinking about what we buy, taking the extra minute to think about what you are purchasing, and making the effort to open your eyes and see what is going on around you, in your neighborhood and in your city. Listen to Kim and Shayne talk about being abolitionists, what slavery looks like in the world today, and how you can truly get engaged and make a difference.

Resources:

Purchase Refuse To Do Nothing on Amazon

Refuse To Do Nothing – Facebook Page

Abolitionist Mama – Kim Yim’s Blog

Shayne Moore’s website

Women of Vision, Orange County

Global Center for Women and Justice

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On this episode of the Ending Human Trafficking Podcast, we are featuring a special presentation by Reverend David L. Myers, Senior Advisor for Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Appointed by President Obama in 2009, Rev. Myers works closely with FEMA to provide disaster relief and builds efforts to partner with local and national faith-based leaders.

Rev. Myers shares with hundreds of Vanguard Students about their role as an “uncommon dataset” in touching the sorrow in our world. He challenges all of us working to end social injustice to take a second look at our passion, commitment and a desire for justice. Rev. Myers shares that “Passion must be transformed into professional discipline” indicating the importance of using skills learned in order to fight the many injustices that drive our personal missions and passions.

Resources:

Department of Homeland Security – Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships

Global Center for Women and Justice

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On November 7-8, 2013, GCWJ hosted a special two-day event called the Frontline Summit: Where is the Frontline in the War Against Child Exploitation? The Summit partnered with Orange County Juvenile Courts and Orange County Department of Education in order to bring together more than 100 professionals working on the frontlines – educators, probation officers, law enforcement, probation department, etc. During the two-day event, participants worked through three main questions in order to identify gaps in identifying and serving exploited children. Tune in for this episode of the Ending Human Trafficking podcast with GCWJ Director Sandra Morgan and Board Member Dave Stachowiak to hear about the key ideas, gaps, and needs in order to better serve child victims of commercial sexual exploitation from the Frontline Summit!

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Special thank you to Orange County Juvenile Courts, Orange County Department of Education, and the many student researchers who assisted with the Summit!

Resources:

 Frontline Summit Final Report

EHT Podcast 16: Laura Lederer Gangs & Human Trafficking

EHT Podcast 46: Knowledge of Harms: Demand Reduction

Global Center for Women and Justice

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GCWJ Director Sandra Morgan spent one week in March 2014 with Assemblies of God World Missionaries Gilbert and Virginia Contreras conducting human trafficking prevention training in Córdoba, Argentina. The Contreras family has served in Argentina for 14 years. After attending an Ensure Justice conference a few years ago, they felt called to address this issue and seek to prevent human trafficking in the country. Virginia sums up the grave need to fight human trafficking in Argentina with what she was told during her studies the definition of a woman is: an object to use and enjoy. Tune in to this episode of the Ending Human Trafficking Podcast to hear more of their great work in Argentina.

Resources:

Report on Child Labor – US Department of Labor

List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor – infographic

News article about child labor in Argentina (Spanish)

News article about Argentina pesticide issues (English)

10/10/10 Escuela Biblica – Facebook Page

Escuela Biblica – Facebook Page

Contacto Universitario Departamento de la UAD – Facebook Page

Live2Free Argentina – Facebook Page

Global Center for Women and Justice

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The latest episode of the Ending Human Trafficking podcast features GCWJ Director Sandra Morgan and Board Member Dave Stachowiak speaking with the Director of Anti-Trafficking for World Hope International, Lisa Thompson. Lisa has a worked in the anti-trafficking movement for many years, including 12 years with The Salvation Army. She transitioned in September 2013 to her role with World Hope where she focuses on building community and victim-centered programming in three countries Azerbaijan, Cambodia, and Sierra Leone. Tune in to hear Lisa’s overview of the assessment and recovery centers World Hope runs in each of these countries, as well as the unique model that the organization is employing in Sierra Leone to build up community support from community leaders in order to prevent and protect those vulnerable to exploitation.

Will you be joining us at Ensure Justice? Register today at ensurejustice.com

**Correction fron Lisa Thompson: While discussing the topic of IDPs (internally displaced persons), I made reference to Syria and the refugee crisis (refugees being those who have fled the country). Unfortunately, I neglected to loop in the fact that there 6.5 million IDPs in Syria—persons who have fled their former homes due to the ongoing civil war to seek sanctuary elsewhere within Syria—making them internally displaced persons.

Resources:

World Hope International

World Hope Trafficking Report

Chab Dai

Ensure Justice 2014 – Why is She a Slave? Global Child Trafficking: Prevention and Early Intervention

Global Center for Women and Justice

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This episode of the Ending Human Trafficking podcast features GCWJ Director Sandra Morgan and Board Member Dave Stachowiak discussing the US Government’s five year strategic action plan on services for human trafficking survivors. Sandie and Dave discuss the overarching themes of Coordination, Collaboration, and Capacity. The strategic report includes ideas about what terms to use and four main goals: Align Efforts, Improve Understanding, Expand Access to services, and Improve Outcomes. Tune in to hear more about a victim-center approach using the 4 P’s to provide services for survivors of human trafficking.

Don’t forget – Register for the Ensure Justice Conference by February 16 to secure the Early Bird Rate!

Resources:

Five Year Strategic Plan

Ensure Justice 2014 – Why is She a Slave? Global Child Trafficking: Prevention and Early Intervention

ORDER Shyima Hall’s Book at Amazon.com

Global Center for Women and Justice

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This episode of the Ending Human Trafficking podcast features Ensure Justice 2014 Speaker Shyima Hall, Survivor Advocate. Shyima was born in Egypt to a very poor family. She was sent to work for a family in Cairo, who later moved to the US, taking 8-year-old Shyima with them to continue her service as a domestic slave. When a neighbor noticed she was not going to school, Shyima was rescued. Listen to Shyima’s story from being a child slave to living in freedom and experiencing justice in this special episode, and don’t miss her at this year’s Ensure Justice Conference! Register today to secure your place!

Shyima released her memoir, Hidden Girl: The True Story of a Modern Slave on January 21, 2014. Purchase it today online, at your bookstore, or on your e-reader!

Resources:

Shyima’s Story

Shyima’s Author Page

Citizenship Video

ORDER Shyima Hall’s Book at Amazon.com

Ensure Justice 2014 – Why is She a Slave? Global Child Trafficking: Prevention and Early Intervention

Global Center for Women and Justice

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Dr. Sandie Morgan, Dave Stachowiak, and Westminster Police Department’s Deputy Chief Derek Marsh discuss the myths and misconceptions of human trafficking. Deputy Chief Marsh has worked on Orange County’s local anti-trafficking efforts since 2003, including co-chairing the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force for nine years. In Part 2, they discuss myths 7 through 12 about human trafficking as outlined by the Polaris Project.

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Transcript

Dave [00:00:00] You’re listening to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. This is episode number 72, A Dozen Myths About Human Trafficking (Part Two). Welcome to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. My name is Dave Stachowiak.

Sandie [00:00:31] And my name is Sandie Morgan.

Dave [00:00:33] And this is the show where we empower you to study the issues, be a voice, and make a difference in ending human trafficking. And we did that in a big way back on last episode, Sandie, number 71, where we began to look at the 12 myths of human trafficking that the Polaris Project has put together. And we were fortunate to have Deputy Chief Derek Marsh from the Westminster Police Department with us on Episode 71. And we talked in detail about those first six myths. And so we’re bringing you now the second half of that conversation, which is now looking at myths 7 through 12 and talking in detail on what are some of the things that are maybe popular myths about trafficking that aren’t necessarily true, or there’s only a piece of them that are true and really looking at the complexity of this issue. Because that is important to us, Sandie, is really looking at the full complexity of this issue and studying the issues so that we can be even more effective at working to end human trafficking. Before we get into that interview, though, speaking of getting more effective at studying the issues, we have the conference coming up to really help all of us to become more effective in just a few months, Sandie.

Sandie [00:01:50] That’s right. So, you want to be an early bird and get the early bird rate to register for Ensure Justice 2014, Why is She a Slave? Our speakers are amazing, Steven Baumann’s CEO of World Relief and Dr. Joanne Bew Trend, Reverend David Myers from the White House faith-based agency in Homeland Security and Shyima Hall. And if I can encourage you, you will love meeting Shyima and hearing her tell her story. Her book is coming out on January 21st, I’d advise you to preorder it. Go on to Amazon.com and order The True Story of a Modern-Day Child Slave Hidden Girl.

Dave [00:02:39] So, Sandie, I think that’s going to give us a good overview of the conference. So, a reminder to go to gcwj.vanguard.edu. That’s a great place to find information. And now let’s go ahead and join our conversation again with Deputy Chief Derek Marsh.

Sandie [00:02:58] Thank you, Deputy Chief Marsh, for coming back to finish 6 more of the 12 myths that we are addressing human trafficking. And we talked about the first six that included the idea that only foreign nationals were victims, that this was a crime of travel and crossing borders. We talked about the difference between trafficking and smuggling, the elements of physical bondage, as well as the idea that victims are asking for help and will self-identify, and finally, we discussed the idea that all victims come from some sort of poverty situation. Now we’re going to roll into the last six myths. The first of which is myth seven, how can the first be number seven? I don’t know. Sorry about that myth seven, sex trafficking is the only form of human trafficking. Tell us the reality.

Derek [00:04:03] Well, again, I think this is also generated, I think probably from a law enforcement focus as far as what we’re able to actually go out and pursue. I know that from a law enforcement area, because that’s my expertise, obviously, that any kind of vice operation is something that law enforcement is very capable of doing that we’ve been doing for decades. As far as finding people who are, you know, performing illicit sex acts for people. And so, moving into sex trafficking was a relatively easy thing to do. But if you look at the numbers across the world, in fact, they’re exactly the reverse. That for the most part, if you look at the ILO, International Labor Organization, they estimate that 60 to 70 percent, if not more of all trafficking is labor trafficking. There’s a study by a Harvard professor that claims that 96 percent of all trafficking is labor trafficking. If you look at the United Nations reports, they claim anywhere from 50 to 70 percent of all trafficking is labor trafficking. It’s only here in the US with our task force and our expertise in vice investigations that we would be able to get what we’re looking for. And I think the reverse is true, except for the world that now we show that sex trafficking is 80 to 90 percent of the trafficking we find in the United States. Whereas I think if we were to have better expertise in finding forms of labor trafficking and following up on those investigations, I think we’re developing them but not we’re not there yet, that we would find that sex trafficking, while predominant and nothing to minimize, may not be the overwhelming type of trafficking that’s occurring in the United States.

Sandie [00:05:43] Well, and one of the things that reflect how we are changing is our legislation because here in California, the California Transparency Act has helped us begin to identify slave labor that’s on the shelves in our stores. And we have a secondary responsibility to that because we drive demand for those cheap products, and which drives demand for labor trafficking. But you all know, that’s one of my pet peeves, and I want to talk about that all the time. But I need to move on to Myth eight while we have the deputy chief with us today, human trafficking only occurs in illegal underground industries. What’s the reality?

Derek [00:06:30] Yeah, that’s another one. I think that it sounds cool. I think we have a lot of media that is posted, movies like Taken, or I can think of any 10 movies off ...