The UN 90-page 2018 Global Report on TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS

[johnkarls]

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This item shows how our monthly investigations develop!!!

In making the Original Proposal back on 7/29/2019, it was easy enough to ascertain that “Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery” by Harvard Prof. Siddharth Kara (Columbia U. Press 2009) was universally considered “The Bible” on the subject.

After the attendees at our 7/31/2019 meeting on “Brown Girl Dreaming” by Jacqueline Woodson voted for Prof. Kara’s “Sex Trafficking” as our focus book for our Sep 18 meeting, one of the first things unearthed by a Google search was the 2017 U.N. movie on “Sex Trafficking” entitled “Trafficked” starring Ashley Judd, Anne Archer and Elisabeth Röhm.

And that “Trafficked” was based, according to the U.N. Press Release, on three actual cases described in Prof. Kara’s “Sex Trafficking.” [Surprise, surprise!!!]

And that “Trafficked” was released in the wake of the U.N.’s Dec. 2016 publication of its “Global Report on TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS” [original capitalization].

[The U.N. movie “Trafficked” was the subject of the First “Short Quiz.]

The Second Short Quiz had been intended to cover the U.N. Report [singular] on “Global Report on TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS.”

[For the curious, the Third Short Quiz had been (and still is) intended to cover the U.N.’s 2000 Convention Against Organized Crime and the Convention’s 2 Protocols – the 2003 Protocol “To Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, and the 2004 Protocol “Against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Air and Sea.” And the Fourth Short Quiz had been (and still is) intended to cover Prof Kara’s “Sex Trafficking.”]

The U.N.’s Dec 2016 “Global Report on TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS” was read in preparation for drafting The Second Short Quiz.

And the first paragraph of its preface said that there had been a 2014 “Global Report on TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS”!!!

Which implied that there might also be a 2018 ““Global Report on TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS” – with neither the 2014 report nor the 2018 report being picked up by one of our Google searches regarding Prof. Kara’s “Sex Trafficking”!!!

[Since neither the 2014 report nor the 2018 report referenced Prof. Kara or his book – though, as previously mentioned, the U.N. movie “Trafficked” did (in addition to which it was discovered that the movie was released in the wake of the 2016 report).]

Sorry to be so long-winded!!!

Which is really an apology for why the 2018 report was not previously discovered!!!

Here it is –

RL-f813-United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime - Global Report on Trafficking in Persons - 2018.pdf

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Saboteurs deleted the foregoing document on 2/18/2022 - Here is a restoration -

RESTORATION-RL-f813-United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime - Global Report on Trafficking in Persons - 2018.pdf

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