Resources for Teachers – Topics for Debate: Human Trafficking, including modern day slavery, contemporary slavery, debt bondage, serfdom, forced labor, forced marriage, transferring of wives, inheritance of wives, and transfer of a child for purposes of exploitation. Also forced prostitution, child prostitution, sale of children, and trafficking in children.

Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery

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TOPICS FOR DEBATE

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1. Is commercial surrogacy a benevolent form of Human Trafficking, and should it be permitted? Ukraine is one of the countries in the world that has not outlawed commercial surrogacy, and its clinics saw a surge in demand in 2015, after several countries in Asia banned the practice.

2. Is slavery a necessary evil that allows for survival in parts of the world where unemployment is rampant and poverty is oppressive? Doesn’t it have a proven track record dating back thousands of years? Should we tamper with it?

3. Is the major cause of modern-day slavery desperation on the part of victims who, seeking alternatives, become entrapped?

4. Is human trafficking essential to the stability of the underground economy of many a poor nation? - case study: Nigeria

5. Would decriminalization of prostitution result in a decrease in the trafficking of women and children for purposes of sexual exploitation.

6. Is it true that women and children who work as prostitutes have voluntarily chosen such a life for themselves?