What NEW fact did you learn about HT in the USA?
Discussion 7
QUESTIONS:
1. Why do each of the following factors contribute to the rise of HT in Europe?
• Low birth rates in Western Europe?
• Well educated women in Western Europe?
• The Mediterranean Coast?
• The Balkans?
• The Schengen Agreement?
2.Why are well educated women in Western Europe spared from the horrors of HT?
3.How does the Mediterranean Coast contribute to HT?
4.Why are the Balkans (make sure you know what I mean by the Balkans) so susceptible to HT?
5.How does the Schengen Agreement make the transporation of HT victims much more vulnerable? Do you agree with the principles behind this agreeement? How would you change the law to protect HT victims?
Discussion 8
QUESTIONS:
1.Project: http://www.polarisproject.org/state-map
Click on this link; pick a state. On the subject line, write your states name like this as an example: North Carolinas response to HT. Then in your post, summarize your states efforts to interdict, prevent, and prosecute HT.
2. Define white slavery and tell us why this had an impact on todays problems with HT.
3. The author of our textbook claims that our history of slavery laid down the groundwork for our current problems with HT. Do you agree/disagree? Please tell us why.
4. What NEW fact did you learn about HT in the USA?
5. State of the day: Human Trafficking in North Carolina:
Describe how severe you think the problem of HT is in NC after seeing these videos and reading about the case of Shaniya Davis
Shaniya Davis sentence for Mario McNeill: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN3oIdSMvgE
Discussion 9
Questions:
1. Latin America thread: Costa Rica/Panama/Mexico City, please summarize the role that parents play in contributing to the abuse of HT. If you were the president of any of these countries, how would you prosecute the parents who sell their children into HT?
2. African thread: please summarize how voodoo and other practices contributes to the abuse of HT in Africa. If you were the president of any of these countries, how would you prosecute those who used these victims of HT for voodoo and other such purposes