Trafficking Quotes - Page 4

• There's this whole problem of trafficking, which has gotten worse in the economic downturn, which disproportionately affects young women, but also affects some young men who are sold into bondage, into basically servitude for indebted work that they can often never escape from.

  William J. Clinton

  Men, Problem, Economic

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The only people benefiting from the status quo in immigration [in the USA] today are the people trafficking human beings across the border, and the people who are hiring illegal labor for cheap purposes.

  Marco Rubio

  Usa, People, Immigration

  Source: alter.newsweek.msnbc.com

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• Throw in neglect and politicization of the judicial system and you see the result: soaring rates of cocaine trafficking through Venezuela and worsening corruption of institutions.

  Rory Carroll

  Venezuela, Corruption, Cocaine

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Drug and human traffic are getting a lot more attention than illicit wildlife trafficking. And just as we need to intensify our efforts to combat drug trade and human trafficking, we also need to intensify our efforts to combat illicit wildlife trafficking...They all need to be addressed through bold and consistent actions by the international community.

  Robert Hormats

  Effort, Community, Drug

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• In the long struggle against sex trafficking, we finally have a breakthrough!

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Sex, Struggle, Long

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• Where do people get off telling people what to do? It's their bodies. If you legalized sex work and legally protected the sex workers, you wouldn't see anything like human trafficking. All of that would be obliterated.

  Margaret Cho

  Sex, People, Would Be

  "The righteous rage of Margaret Cho". Interview with Alli Malone, nytlive.nytimes.com. November 10, 2015.

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• There are people that smuggle drugs, human trafficking, and terrorism but there are throngs and throngs of people that come through that aren't seeking to hurt anyone. They just want to feed their family.

  Myka 9

  Hurt, People, Drug

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• So, whenever you hear or see violence, there is violence on both sides of the border, or it's both country's responsibility. When we talk about trafficking with weapons, with human beings or with drugs, we talk about it on both sides of the border.

  Demian Bichir

  Country, Responsibility, Drug

  Source: collider.com

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• None these organizations [terrorists] could continue operating without the narcotics networks, human-trafficking and oil smuggling. Addressing it requires a truly creative global response similar to that used to stand up against Germany's aggression in World War II.

  Ashraf Ghani

  War, Organization, Oil

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• That which the enemy meant to destroy through trafficking, I will raise up as an unstoppable army in the days ahead, for that generation will be My generation! I call you, 'My Army that is Unstoppable!' I call you, 'My Kingdom Swarm,' and you shall invade the kingdoms of the earth.

  Chuck Pierce

  Army, Enemy, Generations

  "Chuck Pierce: Incredible Prophecy: 'Hear the Clock Ticking! You Have Been Catapulted Into the Three Years Ahead!'". www.elijahlist.com. September 27, 2013.

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• Usually you just use these words: "I give you my, I make this commitment to you, I honor this idea between us." For me, commitment boils down to honor. Because you make a commitment to protect our environment, you make a commitment to species preservation, you make a commitment to stop things like human trafficking. You make a commitment to stop smoking, to eat better. Typically, something that is positive. A positive notion of honor.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Commitment, Ideas, Giving

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• Japan admitted the Imperial Army ordered the building of these brothels and the trafficking of the women. And now that it's been 70 years, there are only 46 remaining comfort women still alive in South Korea. So also in this deal, Japan is going to pay 1 billion yen - that's about 8 million U.S. dollars - to provide social services and health care to the surviving victims.

  Elise Hu

  Army, Japan, Korea

  "South Korea, Japan Reach Major Deal On Wartime Sex Slaves". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. December 28, 2015.

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• Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings, mainly for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. In short, it's modern day slavery.

  Jen Lilley

  Purpose, Slavery, Human Trafficking

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• The initial spark that promoted me to start Not For Sale was human trafficking in the San Francisco Bay Area. This led me to take a journey around the world on how this could exist in the 21st century.

  David Batstone

  Journey, San Francisco, Bay Area

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• I am an entrepreneur and my goal is to create invention to the solution of human trafficking and extreme poverty.

  David Batstone

  Goal, Entrepreneur, Poverty

  Source: forums.juniper.net

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• Enslavement is when one person completely controls another person, uses violence or violent threats to maintain that control, exploits them economically, and pays them effectively nothing. Trafficking in persons is a process of enslaving someone.

  Julia Ormond

  Use, Pay, Violence

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• We are facing an enormous crisis in Africa right now in terms of illegal wildlife trafficking, which is decimating animal populations, destroying local economies, and funding armed insurgencies and terrorist syndicates. If we do not find solutions to this crisis now, there will be little habitat left beyond sparse areas of national parks that will serve as glorified zoos to small pockets of remaining animals.

  David Jeremiah Barron

  Zoos, Animal, Habitat

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• Human trafficking is a globally assisted pandemic that generates billions of dollars of income a year.

  Gillian Anderson

  Years, Pandemics, Dollars

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There's so much more to Colombia than drug trafficking, you have no idea. They're a bit worn out by the association.

  Pedro Pascal

  Ideas, Drug, Association

  Source: gq.com

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• One of our objectives today is very important for many people, for millions of people on our planet - it is joining efforts in the fight against terrorism and other similar challenges: countering drug trafficking and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, fighting famine, preserving environment and biodiversity, taking efforts to make the world more predictable, more stable.

  Vladimir Putin

  Fighting, Mass Destruction, People

  Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• For decades, Colombia has been accused of being the world's principal provider of cocaine. If this comes to an end, it would be a dramatic change for our country - which has been suffering more than any other from the consequences of drug-trafficking.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Country, Drug, Suffering

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Colombia is applauded for the efforts that we continue to make to combat drug trafficking.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Effort, Drug, Colombia

  "Transcript: President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia interviewed on Al Punto". Interview with Felix De Bedout, www.univision.com. September 2016.

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• The fight against drug trafficking by the Colombian government has been present, and the Americans themselves are the first to recognize that.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Fighting, Government, Drug

  "Transcript: President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia interviewed on Al Punto". Interview with Felix De Bedout, www.univision.com. September 2016.

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• Hillary [Clinton] has a resume. What is the story in Hillary's resume? Four dead in Benghazi, illegal emails, trafficking in classified information. The media hasn't gone there on that yet because when covering that aspect of Hillary minus [Donald] Trump, the story is the same.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Media, Email, Covering

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• How many people worldwide are victims of this type of slavery, in which the person is at the service of his or her work, while work should offer a service to people so they may have dignity. I ask my brothers and sisters in faith and all men and women of good will for a decisive choice to combat trafficking in persons, which includes "slave labor."

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Men, Slave Labor

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