Colloquium: Sex Trafficking

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Colloquium: Sex Trafficking Dana Alhariri Sex Trafficking was the lecture that had gotten my attention and a topic not very focused on in many high schools and even colleges. The discussion was filled with much ambition along with the speakers; Dr. Brian Stilner who had a great approach and addressed his audience in a well-respected manner. Dr. Brian Stilne is from the department of Theology from Sacred Heart University. One entity that I learned from lecture was that not many people knew what sex trafficking means and it something that goes on more in third world countries than in the US. Dr. Stilner defines Sex Trafficking as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat…show more content…
How does it violate human rights and dignity? How does it relate to Psychology? Sex trafficking is a complex problem because the victims experience both physical and psychological harm. The traffickers use physical violence as a way to dominate and control their victims. Some of the tactics they employ include starvation, beatings, rape, and gang rape. Also, the traffickers are not the only ones to perpetrate violence. Reading ahead, I noticed we will be learning about Power and Social Justice and this subject fits in perfectly because there is no answer to why people hurt one another. Our previous assignments focused on issues in society such as the one in Enrique’s Journey and Loaves and Fishes and George Orwell’s 1984. Most humans have fear in speaking against something that is unjust and a violation of our dignity because it gives power to the higher authority to control. Sex trafficking has been a violation of our dignity as well because society fails to give it such importance and education. While viewing the colloquium on sex trafficking, Dr. Brian showed a short 5-minute video by Nicholas Kristoff who was a journalist by the NY Times that aired a documentary particularly about a 14-year-old girl who was forced into prosecution in Asia and then was left to be physical abused to an extent that she lost an eye. I could imagine how cruel our society can be. What hope and dignity did this girl have left at such a young age? This topic related to the common core question of: What it means to forge a more just society for the common good. How? Rather than avoid the various convictions that our fellow citizens bring to public life, we should attend to them more directly – sometimes by challenging and contesting them, sometimes by listening to and learning from
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