What We Did in Class Today Friday December 3, 2010 and India Paragraph Homework

Today in class, we continued to watch the movie Slumdog Millionaire. We still haven't finished watching the movie, so we will continue to watch it on Monday. For homework, we had to write a paragraph about some problems that India is facing. Here is my paragraph:

The people of India are facing many problems right now. They are struggling with things such as child exploitation, human trafficking, and forced labor.  These issues are related to each other and violate the basic human rights of millions of adults and children in India.   Child exploitation is a term used when children are abused or taken advantage of through forced labor, child trafficking, child prostitution, or any other way that involves physical, verbal, or sexual mistreatment.  Children are often forced to do hard and dangerous labor in unacceptable working conditions.  Often, they are forced to work because they were trafficked into slave labor.  The trafficking happens within their country and throughout the international community. Human trafficking is when people are recruited, transported, transferred, and harbored against their will by force or threat.  They are generally forced to work at extremely dangerous jobs in places that put a person’s health and safety at risk, such as underwater, underground, and in cramped spaces.  Sometimes they are forced into prostitution or the drug trade.    It isn’t just children that are the victims of human trafficking.  Men and women are also forced to work in harsh and dangerous conditions.  Unfortunately, India participates in human trafficking by allowing the country to be a source of labor and a destination for those being trafficked from other countries.   India greatly contributes to the problem because it allows men, women and children to be held against their will and forced into labor.   They are made to work in brick kilns, rice mills, embroidery factories, and agriculture.  Women and girls are trafficked for the purpose of forced marriages and are sexually violated. Children are forced to work in factories, agriculture, as household servants, beggars, and forced to serve in the military.  The Indian government does not seem to be doing enough to stop these injustices.  Traffickers are not punished when caught, so there is nothing to make them stop. 

Sources that I used:

http://www.ache.org.uk/what_is_child_exploitation.html

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html