Blog 11- Human Rights and other Random Toughts of Mine

On class on thursday, we sort of reviewed what we talked about the past few class periods.

One of the topics that always interests me is Human Rights. We talked about the value of a human, child workers, education of women and morals surrounding the topic of marrigage (child marrigage, gay rights, etc.)
This topic really got me thinking about this issue, I did not realize how much globalization and human rights go hand in hand. One event happens and the whole world is effected by it.

Since, I have been involved with a human rights group on campus, I know quite a bit about the issue of human and sex trafficking. After the fall of the USSR, Eastern Europe was in chaos. In the contry of Moldova alone, 50% of the adult population left and went to find jobs elsewhere. They left their children behind, leaving them victim to traffickers who promised false jobs in other countires. One source that I read mentioned how spread out Eastern European women are around Europe and the world. The traffickers took and advantage of them and are making a business out of them. The article mentioned that a majorty of women in the red light district in Amsterdam, the Netherlands are Eastern European and they do not know any English or Dutch. Other destinations include Russia, Germany, USA, etc. This is also an issue world wide around 20.9-27 million people are enslaved (forced labor or human trafficking).

There are non-government organizations that are trying to solve this issue. One of them that I know about is IJM. They have offices from all over the world with employess that also come from all over. They employ lawers; helping change laws, aiding a victim in a trial or pushing a government to increase sentances for convicts.
Other non-government and world wide organizations that we have mentioned before in class have been GreenPeace, World Health Organization, the Inernational Monitary Fund, World Wildlife Fund, etc.


I know this is a bit off topic for this blog, but this was sort of my spiral of thoughts after class on Thursday. This unit was really interesting for me.

Here is a small clip from a documentary called Nefarious: Merchant of Souls. I would definately take a look at more videos about this issue. (There are more on their channel.)