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Human Trafficking – it’s horrendous, it’s a big and dangerous business, and it's down your street.

The Open Horizon group was set up to focus primarily on the trafficking of women for sexual exploitation but soon began to realise it wasn’t easy to do so: get the lens in focus on one aspect and another jumps into view, all inter-related and all equally complex. If we focus on trafficking for sexual exploitation we are pulled into moral debates about prostitution; draw back to see the bigger picture and we risk being overwhelmed by the scale of the problem and unable to ‘do anything’. We found that we needed to look beneath the surface and approach everyday life with fresh eyes.

There are many questions and no easy answers:

  • Is human trafficking today similar to or different from the horrific slave trading of previous centuries?
  • What drives some human beings to risk everything for a perceived economically better life elsewhere?
  • Do the media give people false ideals – of themselves and to what they can aspire?
  • When is a person’s attitude or practice acceptable as ‘cultural’ and when is it morally and universally wrong?
  • Can there be a consensual and safe sex industry – for example, could there be a situation when purchasing intimate touching could be a healing experience?
  • Should someone who has been trafficked have rights to stay in the destination country or does that encourage those who are illegal immigrants to claim they have been trafficked?
  • What are we already doing to make a difference? Could we do more? Take action here.

 

 

 

  

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