Morning Forum: Human-trafficking expert condemns 21st-century enslavement

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Stanford University lecturer Katherine R. Jolluck discussed “Enslavement in the 21st Century” at the Morning Forum of Los Altos Feb. 20, shocking the audience with the statistic that an estimated 40 million people are enslaved today.

Jolluck is a specialist on the history of 20th-

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Published: 07 March 2018

 

Written by Ellen Beaudet - Special to the Town Crier

 

 

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Stanford University lecturer Katherine R. Jolluck discussed “Enslavement in the 21st Century” at the Morning Forum of Los Altos Feb. 20, shocking the audience with the statistic that an estimated 40 million people are enslaved today.

Jolluck is a specialist on the history of 20th-century Eastern Europe and Russia, with a focus on women and war, women in communist societies, the Soviet Gulag, nationalism, anti-Semitism and human trafficking.

“Slavery has existed since at least 6,000 BC,” she said. “In the modern world, the following have led to its increase: the collapse of communism, the global increase in income disparity and the feminization of poverty, globalization, environmental damage and the ballooning of organized crime. State-sponsored forced labor continues in North Korea, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and other countries. In other cases, entire families are held in debt bondage, sometimes for generations.”

According to Jolluck, human traffickers around the globe exploit victims for labor, sex, human organ harvesting, adoption and petty crime.

“Ethnic minorities and females are the most susceptible victims,” she said, with 71 percent of victims women, children and infants, and 29 percent men and boys.

Human trafficking includes all forms of exploitation, Jolluck said, whether victims are taken across borders or used within one country.

“Victims need not be kidnapped, but are often deceived, with false promises, into going willingly,” she said. “Under age 18, it is impossible to give legal consent to be exploited.”

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