"White slavery" ( eng. White slavery ) - in English-speaking countries, the term meant the bondage of Europeans and immigrants from Europe , regardless of the nature of slavery, but mainly in relation to forced prostitution.
Content
- 1 History
- 2 Alternative forms
- 3 See also
- 4 notes
- 5 Literature
- 6 References
History
The phrase “white slavery” has been used since the beginning of the 20th century, “when most countries of then Europe signed the International Treaty [1] in Paris in 1904 aimed at combating this phenomenon” [2] :
At that time, particular attention was paid to women from the UK who were forced into prostitution in continental Europe. Later this term extended to the general concept of trade in live goods.
Only in 1985 did the British parliament amend the legislation according to which cohabitation with those under 13 was considered violent (age under the new law is 16 years old) [3] .
At the beginning of the 20th century, the term was used in relation to European girls who worked in Chicago brothels [4] .
Previously, the phrase was used in relation to concubines from Europe in Turkish harems .
According to the CIA , at the beginning of the 21st century there were approximately 27 million slaves in the world [5] :
Several million people are sold every year. Transnational criminal organizations only in illegal business with women and girls received an income of 7 billion US dollars . In an era of globalization, human trafficking develops and spreads as widely as drugs or alcohol smuggling . Human value - a dose of a drug, a bottle of alcohol or the price of a goat ... In the context of today's globalization, in the criminological context, a special and extremely difficult problem - the revival of human trafficking and the resuscitation of slavery, takes on new forms and forms. It is much more complicated than it was in the XVII - XIX centuries . This seems especially terrifying when universal human rights acquire new content and meaning, mechanisms for their protection are improved, and new institutions for the protection of human rights are formed and function (ombudsmen, the European Court of Human Rights , etc.).
Alternative Forms
There is an alternative (forced prostitution) form of slavery [6] :
The slave trade can also take such forms as, for example, the abduction of children and their recruitment into the state armed forces or rebel armies, the use of women and children as domestic servants working under bonded conditions, the use of children as street thieves, etc.
See also
- Human trafficking
- Prostitution in Europe
- Sexual slavery
- Slavery in modern Russia
- Slave Izaura (novel)
- Zvi Migdal
- Alternative (anti-slavery movement)
Notes
- ↑ , 1904
- ↑ Samarkand courts have become more likely to consider cases related to human trafficking (inaccessible link)
- ↑ Cecil Adeams, “The Straight Dope: Was there really such a thing as„ white slavery “? "January 15, 1999.
- ↑ Cecil Adams, op. cit.
- ↑ Trafficking in people and human organs: criminological, political and social problems. . CRIME.VL.RU . www.crime.vl.ru. Date of treatment August 14, 2018.
- ↑ On the issue of criminological characteristics of trafficking in persons.
Literature
- White Cargo: the Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America
Links
- Ex-Prostitutes Say South Korea and US Enabled Sex Trade Near Bases / NYTimes, 2009-01-07
- How Russians Fall Into Sexual Slavery Abroad / Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, 09 August 2006
- White Slavery Was Much More Common Than Believed . OSU , 2004
- Slavery Myths Debunked / Slate, Sept. 29 2015