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Every day in the United States, children and adolescents are victims of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking. Despite the serious and long-term consequences for victims as well as their families, communities, and society, efforts to prevent, identify, and respond to these crimes are largely under supported, inefficient, uncoordinated, and unevaluated. Confronting Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States examines commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents of the United States under age 18. According to this report, efforts to prevent, identify, and respond to these crimes require better collaborative approaches that build upon the capabilities of people and entities from a range of sectors. In addition, such efforts need to confront demand and the individuals who commit and benefit from these crimes. The report recommends increased awareness and understanding, strengthening of the law's response, strengthening of research to advance understanding and to support the development of prevention and intervention strategies, support for multi-sector and interagency collaboration, and creation of a digital information-sharing platform. A nation that is unaware of these problems or disengaged from solutions unwittingly contributes to the ongoing abuse of minors. If acted upon in a coordinated and comprehensive manner, the recommendations of Confronting Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States can help advance and strengthen the nation's emerging efforts to prevent, identify, and respond to commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors in the United States.
What does annihilation sound like? Annihilation, as it turns out, is often harrowingly quiet. This dissertation is a longitudinal ethnographic study of how a vast constellation of variegated silences amidst one narcotics dominated public housing community in the Caribbean, Alelí, coalesces to form an almost impenetrable tapestry of both protections and risk. Beneath a cloak of aphonicity, or soundlessness, the dialogues and concomitant silences of youth narco-soldiers, elders, school staff, both transnational and micro-traffickers, civil servants, and grassroots organizers are plumbed in order to glean an eye-level perspective of how life trajectories are impacted by illicit trafficking flows. Almost a tenth of the Island's school deserters leave prior to completing elementary school; attendance is highly--if not entirely--discretionary. Yet to the extent that children are not matriculated, engaged in, and consistently attending the public schools, to that same extent the Island is actively fomenting and fostering its own insecurity internally. This dissertation argues that the children's aphonic, premature exits from state sponsored schooling contribute significantly to the phenomena of truncated life trajectories--wherein the transitions from truant to deserter to youth soldier to premature demise occur in rapid succession. This dissertation sits anchored in the wake of such unspectacular scholastic departures, primarily examining how, through social and institutional networks, Islanders surrounding such young people unwittingly or intentionally participate in or fight against this all too prevalent default mode of desertion and its predictable aftershocks. In Alelí, just as in some of the other impenetrable government housing projects Islandside, artillery is already an integral and not aberrant component of the soundscape. As such, I trace an arc wherein young men's loss of vocality and visibility becomes translanguaged into firearm detonations. During more than eight years immersed in Alelí's soundscape, I observe how the aphonicity of voice lays masterful claim over terrain wherein silence reigns as a deeply embedded form of cultural capital, loquacity is not a skillset but an impediment, and intel swiftly transforms into liability.
Puerto Rico is still reeling from Post Hurricane Maria, drug related violence has risen, and many of the islands politicians are crooked. Garcia Ortiz is born and raised a Nuyorican from Spanish Harlem and the Bronx. After several years in Cayey, Puerto Rico as an artist and tattooist. Garcia Ortiz battled demons in the form of drug addiction and survived to tell this tale of treacheries and murder with drug-trafficking at it 's core. Hoping the educate state-side Puerto Ricans the importance of their role in the islands future and that of her children. Experiencing Puerto Rico's plight the author is convinced Puerto Rico is still paying a "Blood Tax" since 1918- that the island has no natural resources to rely upon and is being held accountable for trillions of dollars by the U.S. Well here the author must ask, "what happens to all the money from the illegal drug trade?" A nasty business that claims Puerto Rican lives daily, young and old, either by incarceration or death. believing the Legalization of Marijuana in Puerto Rico will not only stem the violence but increase revenue badly needed by the island. Drugs are already there and will remain unchecked, diminishing the islands growth, while increasing her debt to the U.S. Legalize 420 Puerto Rico Palante Garcia Ortiz

Combating Human Trafficking

United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights, and International Operations

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 150


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