Human Trafficking

Today we saw movie about human trafficking. The movie was called Trade. After the movie, we read some texts about human trafficking and answered questions on p. 189 from our english textbook:Access to international english, Cappelen damm.  I worked in pair with one of my fellow students and together we came up with these answers. At the very end i also put in a picture that shows a little bit about trafficking in the world.

TASK 1 asking and answering

She was told that her children could go to a boarding school, who is a big thing for girls in africa. She was also told that she would clean a house and be well paid. She was a domestic slave. She took care of the children, a two year old and a baby. She cooked every meal, worked 100 hours a week and only got 70$ a month. She also did gardening and cleaning .She worked alot, and didn't get the money that she should have earned and promised. She was told to not talk to anyone and was responsible for everything in the household.She contacted immigration attorney and got her rights back. There was put up charges against the couple she worked for.  Edwin Canilang was from the Philippines. He came to Canada he thought he got the opportunity to work with welding and plumbing. He also came to Canada because he was promised good wages and a steady jobHe was put to picking garbage and digging ditches, which was not the job he was promised.   One of the men escaped and called the Philippine embassy, which came to rescue them. Around 800 workers are trafficked into Canada yearly, and another 1000 or more pass through Canada.

TASK 5 vocabulary

Forpliktelser - duties, Advokat - attorney, Forlatt - abandoned, Kroppsarbeid - Labor, Årlig - yearly, Påskudd - pretense, Rykte - rumor

TASK 6 quick research

Human trafficking is a way to exploit people. Persons are sold bought and traded much like slaves. It's estimated to be a five-to-nine billion dollar a year industry. Trafficking victims typically are recruited by using forced or because they are deceived or fraud is used, and power is abused or their simply abducted. Threats, violence and economic problems can often make a victim consent to exploitation. 
Exploitation includes forcing people into prostitution or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs. 
For children, exploitation may also include forced prostitution, illegal international adoption, trafficking for early marriage or recruitment of child soldiers, beggars, for sports or for religious cults. 
The norms based on international human rights law, such as vienna declaration and yogyakarta principles prohibit human trafficking and council of europe. Charter of fundamental rights also prohibit them and do effort to save the victims. 

Countries of origin are shown in red, destination countries are shown in blue; Data is from the UN, in 2006

Source of picture : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking