8:35 am on Wednesday May 2, 2012
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Human trafficking in #MYR
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Is Myrtle Beach ripe for human trafficking?
Local media has been reporting on human trafficking in the area; last month over at The Sun News and a write-up about a local group fighting to stop Human trafficking over at The Weekly Surge from last year are two great pieces on the subject.
And now comes a write-up from SCnow.com about the subject and how South Carolina and Myrtle Beach are prime targets due to the transient nature of the area and influx of tourists.
The United Nations characterizes human trafficking as "the enrollment, transportation, exchange, harboring or receipt of people, by method for the danger or utilization of power or different types of pressure, of snatching, of extortion, of trickery, of the misuse of force or of a position of weakness or of the giving or accepting of installments or advantages to accomplish the assent of a man having control over someone else, with the end goal of abuse. Abuse might incorporate, at least, the misuse of the prostitution of others or different types of sexual abuse, constrained work or administrations, bondage or practices like subjugation, subjugation or the expulsion of organs." best custom paper | Chiefpapers