Suggested Answers to the Second Short Quiz

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Suggested Answers to the Second Short Quiz - The United Nations’ Global Reports on Trafficking in Persons

Question 1

Did the United Nations publish in 2016 a 126-page “Global Report on TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS” (original capitalization)?

Answer 1

Yes.

Question 2

In the wake of the 2016 report, did the United Nations release its movie “Trafficked” starring Ashley Judd, Anne Archer and Elisabeth Röhm -- which was the focus of The First Short Quiz?

Answer 2

Yes.

Question 3

HOWEVER, does the U.N. appear to release every 2 years a “Global Report on TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS” with the most recent in 2018?

Answer 3

Yes.

Question 4

Does the 2016 report say (p. 1) that 79% of all detected trafficking victims worldwide are women and children?

Answer 4

Yes.

Question 5

Does the 2016 report say (p. 89) that 60% of detected trafficking victims in North America are women?

Answer 5

Yes.

Question 6

Does the 2016 report also say (p. 89) the most frequent form of exploitation in North America is sexual exploitation (vs. such things as organ removal, pornography, sham marriages and benefit fraud)?

Answer 6

Yes.

Question 7

Does the 2016 report also say (p. 91) that in addition to the 55% sexual exploitation in North America, approximately 40% of the remaining victims are exploited for forced labor?

Answer 7

Yes.

Question 8

Do such clear-cut categories seem realistic? After all, if you have a sex slave, are you likely to permit her/him to just lie around all day, or would you require her/him to do your housework, mow the lawn, etc.?

Answer 8

Re 8(a), what do you think???

Re 8(b), if you are so morally bankrupt as to have a slave, wouldn’t you try to get the most out of her/him???

Question 9

And if you are the foreman for a farm, vineyard, etc., are you likely to sexually exploit the workers knowing that they can’t complain for fear of being reported to I.C.E.?

Answer 9

Do you really think you wouldn’t be tempted???

Question 10

Although the 2016 report says (p. 93) that a large number of victims in North America have been trafficked domestically (e.g., U.S. citizens trafficked within the U.S.), does it go on to say that 25% of the victims detected in North America come from origins farther away than 3,500 kilometers (2,176 miles) and 7% of the total come from origins farther away than 7,000 kilometers (4,352 miles)? And that they came from more than 90 different countries all over the world?

Answer 10

Yes. Yes.

Question 11

Is the 2016 report frustrating because it deals primarily with percentages?

Answer 11

What do you think???

Question 12

Is the 2016 report also frustrating because of its focus on prosecutions, while of necessity failing to focus on all the miscreants who have not been apprehended?

Answer 12

What do you think???

Question 13

Is one of the few non-percentage statistics in the 2016 report that (p. 96) trafficker convictions range between 150 and 200 per year in the United States?

Answer 13

Yes.

Question 14

Does the 2016 report then admit (p. 96) that there is no information about the number of persons investigated?

Answer 14

Yes.

Question 15

And without addressing the question, does the U.N. appear to have no idea regarding the NUMBER OF VICTIMS of the 150-200/year of U.S. traffickers who are convicted even though the court records might well reveal how long a particular trafficker was in business and what her/his normal annual volume of victims was?

Answer 15

Unfortunately!!!

Question 16

And does the U.N. appear to have no idea regarding the NUMBER OF VICTIMS of the U.S. traffickers who are not apprehended, much less any idea of how many U.S. traffickers are not apprehended?

Answer 16

Unfortunately!!!

Question 17

Does the 2018 report present a much different picture?

Answer 17

Not really.

Question 18

Is the most tragic aspect of the Jeffrey Epstein case that his death last Saturday while in federal custody breeds all the salacious speculation dominating the media over who would benefit the most from his death?

Answer 18

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!

Question 19

Or is the most tragic aspect of the Jeffrey Epstein case the omnipresent media stories about a multi-billionaire pedophile – leaving the public misimpression that sexual exploitation only involves a few billionaires?

[In this regard, please see Q&A-8 thru Q&A-12 of The First Short Quiz about whether the United Nations’ bête noire -- “organized crime” targeted in its 2000 Convention and 2003/2004 Protocols -- has made a sex slave affordable for “the pedophile next door.”]

Answer 19

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!