Katrina Hilton, Noah Parker, Eamonn Powers, Jessica Wen

Guatemalan Sex Trafficking

Population: 13,824,463

Median Age: 20 years38.1% 0-14 years58% 15-643.9% 65+

Literacy rate: 69.1%(indexm)

Background on Guatemala

(map) Country of Guatemala

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75% below poverty line

(casa)43% children under

5=malnourished16% population lives

on <$1 a dayOnly 2% of people

attend Universities(buckner)

Conditions of Guatemalan People

(family) The conditions a typical Guatemalan family undergoes is difficult

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Beginning of Sex Trafficking A brothel, a house where men can visit prostitutes, is a

common form of sex trafficking in Guatemala. Women need money and think that a brothel could bring that

to them. However in many of the stories the little money that they

make can end up going right back into the brothel. Sometimes the owner or boss might make them pay for room and board which would just take the money that they made right out of their hands.

(dictionary)

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Who are the traffickers?PimpsIntimate partners/family membersGangs and criminal networksBrothel and massage parlor owners and managersGrowers and crew leaders in agricultureLabor brokersEmployers of domestic servantsSmall business owners and managersLarge factory owners and corporations(polaris2)

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Minimal help from law to protect victims

Family members sell each other into slavery

Sex traffickers make fake promises

Hard to escapePovertyDebt

(unicef)

Trafficking Trapping

(trapped) Sex trafficking traps victims, by taking advantage of unfortunate predicaments

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Guatemala=4th largest exporter of children worldwide

80% of prostitution population=children

Estimated 15,000 children under 18=victims of child sex trafficking networks

(proproject)

Children in sex trafficking

(girl) Innocent children are being forced into sex trafficking

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Women can earn $4.50+ per timeProstitution=established part of

Guatemalan society58% of people see female prostitution as

common40+% Guatemalan men have paid for sex at

least 1 timeAround 23% of men had 1st sexual

experience with a prostitute(nnews)

Prostitution at a Glance in Guatemala

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(music) Previous victims of sex trafficking that have moved on and become musicians and entrepreneurs after their hardships

Life after trafficking

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(government) The government set up a protocol to help previous victims of sex trafficking back into society as well as homes to make the transition more comfortable

Guatemala Stepping up

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14 Year Old Girl in Brothel With 15 siblings this 14 year old girl thought she was going

to visit her grandpa but ended up in Guatemala City and trapped in sex slavery.

Her fear of starvation and being along if she left is ultimately why she had to put up with sex slavery at her age.

However this girl was saved and taken to a girls’ shelter. Although her name is not revealed because of what she

went through this story is important because for most of us this girls is only a year or two younger.

(nnews2)

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Sex Slavery Begins at age 9 for Little Girl An abandoned child at the age of six in Guatemala she lived on the

streets until she was nine and a half and met a man who took her in. This man owned a night club and this is how this young girl started in

the sex business. She also worked in a brothel which raised her no money as her

profits would just be used to cover her expenses for her room and board.

(unicef2)

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Alba, Age 14 saw Prostitution as a way of Income With her mom demanding that she brings money home she saw

gaining money through sex was how she was going to earn income.

When Alba was working at a bar with a girlfriend she was the only underage girl in the bar and was very popular which was another reason that she joined the industry.

160 dollars is not enough to support Alba’s family so again in Guatemala another younger girl has turned to a brothel as a way of income when really it is not going to help her economically because she must pay for her room and board.

Guatemala’s sexual exploitation of young girls is not a major crime in Guatemala and the highest penalty for corruption of minors is a measely 400 dollar fine.

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A Roman Catholic Nun Tells Stories of Prostitution Of the 79 brothels in Tecun Uman, Guatemala Maria del Refugio Rosas is a

Roman Catholic nun who has information from prostitutes that come to her. She claims that she know at least 15 women in prostitution that have sold

their babies for financial help. This shows the state of need that these women are in.

She also says that some women who work in bars were not able to leave from working because the owners keep their passports or other documents.

Gloria Sanchez came to Guatemala in search of a job from Nicaragua. She was promised a position as a maid.

Although she had the position for a little bit her life was dictated by her boss who turned her into a bar maid which led to her being sold into a brothel. When she escaped one night she realized that she didn’t know any other work which shows that these women in these brothels become dependent on their owners.

(poundp)

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What is human trafficking/sex slavery? Human trafficking is when

people bought, kidnapped, transported, or forced to do labor. Forms of human trafficking

include forced labor, child soldiery, and sex slavery

Sex slavery is often for women to make money by selling themselves to men for sex.

(polaris)

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Guatemala’s Involvement in Sex Trafficking Sex trafficking is not only happens in Guatemala but it is

also a source. Guatemalans can be trafficked into countries such as the

United States or Mexico. Often times they are promised a better life.

Guatemala is also a destination for people to be trafficked coming from other countries.

Countries such as El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua are involved with Guatemala because it is thought that people from these countries have immigrated from their countries and end up becoming trafficked in Guatemala.

(guatemala)NP

Buckner Guatemala:A Christian Missionary organization that

supplies foster care, preventative health care, child care, residential care and social services for countries in need

Offers:Temporary ShelterPsychological, social, familial, education,

religious and physical evaluationA permanency team to help with long term

placement options and follow up planning

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Freedom House

Provides training, technical assistance and advice to local groups in the critical areas of victim identification and service provisions to victims.

Creates a network of civil society organizations working against human trafficking to facilitate exchange of information and strategic collaboration among them

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Freedom AmericaA nonprofit project that works to end sexual

exploitation of all women and children throughout Latin America, including Guatemala

Mainly education basedWorks to educate citizens, government and

defense organizations about the dangers of human trafficking

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Casa AlianzaWorks with the most vulnerable populations

in Guatemala to teach them about trafficking and how to protect themselves from being victims

Trained nearly 1,200 young people and at-risk workers of on the dangers of human trafficking last year

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Who are the traffickers?PimpsIntimate partners/family membersGangs and criminal networksBrothel and massage parlor owners and

managersGrowers and crewleaders in agricultureLabor brokersEmployers of domestic servantsSmall business owners and managersLarge factory owners and corporations

Make posters about human traffickingBring awareness to the public

Volunteer at Civil SocietyHelping out sex trafficking in Minnesota

Find out what’s “Fair Trade” before buying possible human trafficked goods

Donate $ to the Buckner OrganizationRaise money by having a neighborhood bake

saleHelp sex trafficking in Guatemala

Action Plan

KH, NP, JW

http://www.casa-alianza.org.uk/northsouth/CasaWeb.nsf/Street-Children/Guatemala?OpenDocument (casa)

http://www.casa-alianza.org.uk/northsouth/CasaWeb.nsf/Street-Children/Guatemala?OpenDocument (Casa Alianza)

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/brothel (dictionary) http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=66&prog

ram=93 (Freedom House)

http://guatemala.usembassy.gov/tipguate2009.html http://www.indexmundi.com/guatemala/demographics_profi

le.html (indexm)

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35100(inews) (inews)

Works Cited

KH, NP, JW

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2006/jan/30/teenage_prostitution_way_life_guatemala/(nnews)

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2006/jan/30/teenage_prostitution_way_life_guatemala/ (nnews2)

http://www.polarisproject.org/human-trafficking/overview?gclid=CMPbrt78hqwCFYEDQAodwWSu8w (polaris)

http://www.polarisproject.org/human-trafficking/overview/the-traffickers (polaris2)

http://poundpuplegacy.org/node/29348 (poundp)  

http://www.protectionproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Guatemala.pdf (proproject)

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/guatemala_46566.html (unicef) http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/guatemala_46566.html (unicef2) http://weguatemala.org/en/ngo/mujer (We Guatemala)

Works Cited 2

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