Human Trafficking

Question 1

Identify an issue with which a religion interacts

Answer 1

The issue of human trafficking

Question 2

movement borders

Define the term ‘human trafficking’

Answer 2

physical movement of people acorss and within borders through deceptive means, force and coercion

Question 3

What may traffickers use to lure people

Answer 3

Traffickers might use violence, maniupulation, or false promises of well paying jobs or romantic relationships to lure victims into trafficking situations.

Question 4

country crime borders

Compare the terms ‘human traiffcking’ and ‘people smuggling’

Answer 4

People smuggling is a crime against a country by illegally crossing borders, whereas trafficking is an exploitative crime against an individual.

While people consent to being smuggled, trafficking does not involve consent.

Human trafficking involves ongoing exploitation of the person who has been trafficked.

Question 5

Outline one signifcant conclusion about human trafficking

Answer 5

Human trafficking can take place even if the victim initially consented to providing labor, services, or commercial sex acts.

The trafficker’s exploitative scheme is what matters, not a victim’s prior consent or ability to meaningfully consent thereafter.

Question 6

Outline one reason that people are motivated to engage in the trafficking of other people

Answer 6

relatively high profit, low risk crime

Question 7

Statistics about trafficking the money it makes how many people get arrested

Answer 7

Only 1 in 5 victims are detected in Australia.

Considered second largest illegal source of income

estimated 150 billion industry

very few offenders are convicted for trafficking

partly due to different perpetrators involved at different times

Question 8

entrap arrive exist not

What is mean by the term debt bondage.

When they arrive

Answer 8

debt can be used as a way to entrap people.

People can be forced into accpeting precarious job offers and making hazardous migration decisions.

when they arrive in their desired country they find work does not exist.

Become trapped and reliant on their traffickers.

Documents taken away and forced to work until debt is paid off.

Question 9

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exploit victims

Outline the involvement of criminal networks in human trafficking

Answer 9

Traffickers range from small-time, solo operators to loose networks of criminals, to highly sophisticated criminal organizations that operate internationally.

“Traffickers choose to trade in humans … because there are low start-up costs, minimal risks, high profits and large demand. For organized crime groups, human beings have one added advantage over drugs: they can be sold repeatedly.”

Question 10

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Describe one way a religion could interact with the issue of human trafficking

Answer 10

One way could interact is by leveraging its global network of churches and communities to raise awareness and provide support for victims.

The Church can educate its members on the realities of human trafficking through sermons, workshops and educational materials.

Question 11

part of problem corce public benefits

Describe how governments engage in human trafficking

How gov extracts work

Answer 11

some governments part of problem.

From forced labour in local or national public work projects or military operations

extract this work, governments coerce by threatening the withdrawal of public benefits, withholding salaries

Question 12

Different forms of human trafficking

Sex slavery

Answer 12

most prevalent form, accounting for 58% if all trafficking activies. Includes forced prostitution, pornography, child sex rings.

Victims like children and adults face risk or HIV/AIDS

Question 13

Different forms of human trafficking

Domestic servitude

Answer 13

form of slavery that occurs in households, most cases affects women and children.

Many suffer abuse by their employer including sexual assault.

Question 14

Different forms of human trafficking

Forced marrige

Answer 14

Occurs where full and free consent by both parities to a marrige does not exist, often as the result of coercion.

Question 15

Different forms of human trafficking

Organ trafficking

Answer 15

Trafficking for the purpose of organ removal.

Question 16

Example of human trafficking

Karimova

Answer 16

offered a waitressing job

Karimova recalls ‘they held us in an apartment and took away our passports’

put on plane to dubai

“We were to be sex slaves and do whatever the clients wanted.

Question 17

Propose why the offecences of forced marrige were only introduced into the crimnal code in 2013

Answer 17

Due to rise of social media which provided increased awareness and advocacy on issuses like this.

Question 18

Outline what is meant by the term forced marrige

Answer 18

Incapable of understanding nature and effect of a marrige ceremony, for reasons including age or mental capacity

Question 19

Identify five main forms of human trafficking in Australia

Answer 19

Forced marrige, sexual servitude, forced labour, exit trafficking in persons and trafficking in children.

Question 20

AFP 53 victims

Statistic about forced marrige

Answer 20

AFP taken action to protect 53 individuals

More than 75 per cent of the victims removed from harm were women and more than half were children (under the age of 18)

Question 21

Why does the Catholic Church interact with the issue human trafficking

Outline why the Catholic Church has a commitment to the poor in society

Answer 21

Provides an intellectual and practical response to issue of human trafficking inspired by teaching and example of Jesus Christ.

Jesus ministered to financially poor and those on the margins of society, like lepers, tax collectors.

Question 22

Outline Saint Pauls view of slavery

Answer 22

Paul appears to endorse slavery in letter to Colossrians 3:22
“Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not only when their eye is on you”

Question 23

Catholic Social Teaching

What does it consist of

Teaching on what

Answer 23

Consists of interelated body of Catholic social thought and principles that have been developed by the church since this time.

It is the Church’s teaching on how people should relate to one another and how society should be ordered for it to be just.

Question 24

Catholic Social Teaching

Human dignity what is it

Answer 24

Believe that every human being is created in the image and likeness of god. Therefore has an inherent dignity.

Question 25

Catholic Social Teaching

The common good

Answer 25

Believe that the good of each human person is intimately related to the good of the whole community.

Question 26

Catholic Social Teaching

Preferential option for the poor

Answer 26

We believe in prioritising the women, men and children most vulnerable to extreme poverty and injustice.

Question 27

Gaudium et Spes on human trafficking how it is a violation of principle of human dignity

Answer 27

“Whatever insults human dignity, such as, slavery, prostitution, the selling of women and children, where persons are treated as mere tools for profit, rather than as free and responsible persons.

They are a supreme dishounour to the creator.

Question 28

Identify three documents that expresses the Catholic Church’s teaching on human trafficking.

Answer 28

The Catechism, The Gadium Et Spes and the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People. 2007

Question 29

Summarise the teaching of Pope John Paul II in relation to human trafficking.

Answer 29

Pope John Paul II in 21st Century Slavery- the Human rights dimension to trafficking in Human Beings.

human trafficking “constitues a shocking offense against human dignity and a grave violation of fundemental human rights. In particular, sexual explotation of women and children is a particulary repugant aspect of this trade.”

Question 30

Explain what the ‘veil of indifference’ means in relation to human trafficking.

Answer 30

refers to widespread apathy and lack of awareness that allows human trafficking to persist. It represents the societal tendency to ignore or remain uninformed about the suffering of victims.

many people “do not want to understand the problem” and suggests that this indifference contributes to the ongoing explotation of human trafficking.

Question 31

Outline two actions that Pope Francis believes needs to occur for modern slavery to be abolished.

Answer 31

1. Raising awareness

breaking veil of indifference by ensuring ‘greater awareness of the subject’. “no one can wash their hands of it without being in some way, an accomplice to this crime against humanity.”

2. Adressing root causes.

need to tackle the root causes of slavery, such as extreme poverty, violence, and corruption.

He advocates for ‘creating oppurtunities for integral human development,

Question 32

Someone is in slavery if they are

Answer 32

• forced to work - through coercion.
• owned or controlled by an ‘employer’, through mental or physical abuse or the threat of abuse

Question 33

Identify the name of one Catholic organisation that interacts with the issue of human trafficking

Answer 33

Australian Catholic Religious Against Human Trafficking
(ACRATH)

Question 34

List the three ways that this organisation interacts with the issue of human trafficking

Answer 34

1. Advocate for and with victims and survivors of human trafficking and slavery
2. Raise awareness about human trafficking and modern slavery
3. Address and prevent human trafficking, forced labour and forced marrige

Question 35

three ways organisation interacts with the issue of human trafficking

Advocate for and with victims and survivors of human trafficking and modern slavery

Answer 35

They work to influence legislation and policy, such as lobbying for funding and the establishment of support schemes for trafficking survivors, and contributing to laws like the Commonwealth Modern Slavery Act.

In 2023, the Federal Government’s Budget decision to offer victims and survivors of human trafficking the opportunity to access support without involvement of law enforcement, in part due to the advocacy of ACRATH.

Question 36

three ways organisation interacts with the issue of human trafficking

Raise Awareness about human trafficking and modern slavery

Answer 36

Can involve collaborating with schools and parsihes to promote slavery free practices.

For example ACRATH has developed a Resource Kit to help various entities transition to slavery-free environments and provides educational materials and professional learning for teachers to address human trafficking.

Question 37

three ways organisation interacts with the issue of human trafficking

Address and prevent human trafficking, forced labor and forced marrige.

Answer 37

Offers direct support services to individuals affected by trafficking, such as safe accomodation and casework. ACRATH’s companionship program, for example provides long term support and accomodation for young women escaping forced marriges.

Question 38

Outline the relationship between ACRATh and the Modern Slavery Act (2018)

Answer 38

ACRATH played a key role in advocating for the Commonwealth Modern Slavery Act (2018) which requires large businesses to report on modern slavery risks.

Question 39

Outline the purpose of the Australian Catholic Anti Slavery Network

Answer 39

Supports Catholic entities to identify and manage modern slavery risks in their operations and supply chains.

Also assists Catholic entities and senior executives to report on these actions through preparation of annual Modern Slavery Statements.

Question 40

Summarise how Caritas interacts with the issue of human slavery

An example

Answer 40

They advocate for those who experience human trafficking and to be companions to those people who have escaped human trafficking.

In Asia , Caritas Thailand “collaborates with the nation’s Ministry of Labour to identify cases of severe explotation in the fisheries industry.”

Question 41

Identify what the acronym COATnet represents

Answer 41

The Christian Organisation Against Trafficking of Humans

Question 42

Identify the organisation that coordinates COATnet

Answer 42

Caritas International

Question 43

Outline what it means that COATnet is an ecumenincal organisation

Answer 43

Means that it is a coliation that brings together various Christian denominations to work collectively against human trafficking

Question 44

List three examples of how COATnet interacts with the issue of human trafficking

Answer 44

Help survivors of trafficking start a new life and get access to justice

Co-ordinate assistance across borders

Adovocate for policies on safe migration