Noy Thrupkaew: Human trafficking is all around you. This is how it works
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- čas přidán 12. 07. 2015
- Behind the everyday bargains we all love - the $10 manicure, the unlimited shrimp buffet - is a hidden world of people bought and sold to keep those prices at rock bottom. Noy Thrupkaew investigates the human trafficking industry - which flourishes in the US and Europe, as well as developing countries - and shows us the human faces behind the illegal labor that feeds global consumers.
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My sociology teacher told us to watch this and make notes but what struck me the most was that this was my first time, a teacher told us to watch something like this...
If we educate the younger generation, our generation there will be change.
We also have to think about the folks in poverty at the consumer level. The single mother with two kids who doesn't have enough money to feed herself, so she goes to Wal-Mart or Dollar General to purchase $5 worth of food to last her one week to feed her children. She and people in similar situations don't have the luxury of protesting billion dollar companies by buying locally grown food. They have to worry about barely surviving before they can worry about the sources their food comes from.
@sbasireddy19 You think that's going to happen? I'm 64 years old and I know that the bottom line is more important to the companies. It will not change.
Protect yourself and stop having these damn children if you can't afford to even feed yourself! It's so easy. Birth control is easily and readily available there is zero excuse! You're a negligent person and are guilt tripping no one! Nobody forced you to have these kids.
Yeah, I don't have kids. Nice try though. It was just an example
@@southernstar6385 They're the same people who say abortion should be illegal across the board. They're only pro-life until the baby breathes his/her first breath, then you're fucked. The mother and baby could live off the street for all they care.
They're not very smart. 😂
It's a tragic circle
In Game of Thrones, there's a character named Littlefinger who has a quote: " There's no justice unless you make it" . What he said struck me hard. How true. In this world, if one is poor, lack education and lack powerful social connections, that person may become an easy target of injustice, exploitation and oppression. Sad world we are living in. If only conscience prevails.
@OneOFThese NotLikeTheOther Yes, GOT is a fictional drama series. We all know that. However, that harrowing aforementioned statement of Littlefinger's ring true in many places and occasions. You just need to watch documentaries , read articles or just observe one's surroundings about the various injustices in the world and you will find out. Not everything in Hollywood is fake. Some of the film materials are merely reflections of the real world.
This is a sobering video to watch when you need to be reminded about how good you really have it. Really sad stuff, here.
If it's too cheap to be true it probably is.
I think that was almost Walmart's tagline, but it got scrapped at the final phase.
Probably
Thank you for such an impassioned speech. Human trafficking is a huge, systemic problem, but too few people seem to recognize it as an issue at all. The first step to change is becoming informed, and I hope your talk has opened many minds.
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Someone tell me how we can have corporate personhood, but no individual accountability.
If I, as a person, unknowingly breaks a law I am still liable to be punished under the law.
But if apple "unknowingly" works with a slave op for their phones they get plausible deniability??
William Arnold The law must be publicly announced for you to know about it. If Apple breaks a law that is made public it should be punished accordingly. The economic punishment would have to be set according to income for you and for Apple so both will feel it the same.
William Arnold The legislators are owned by the corporations and so the laws are written such as not to ensnare them.
***** Fair point, I guess. At some level the end of the line consumer would have accountability too, therefor liable to similar punishment, however demand (in this case) is secondary to the factors of production.
We might want cheap iPhones/shrimp/labor and predictably purchase whoever offers the best value, but in an idealized system that I don't reasonably expect humans to achieve (but will still get disappointed when they don't), this margin set by demand would be restricted by some ethos, IE, price and the factors of production would be set by a base line factor of law if not a morality. Now I don't want this to be a debate on what is morality or moral relativism because that's a can of worms that will only lead to splitting hairs and sophism, but I think we can agree that exploitation and profiteering is an immoral action sic: exploiting economic depravity to profiteer off of human labor (this of coarse says nothing of the extortion or abuse necessary to maintain such racket).
to stick with iPhones, both the production line and the consumer become an equal component to Apple profits with the phone itself being a veritable MacGuffin. The demand for cheep goods is secondary to a willingness to meet said demand in the same way that a public desire for a lynch mob would still place accountability on the actual lynchers.
All that said, is there really no publicly announced law against human trafficking or the use of its labor?
William Arnold That was a long one. I would disagree on accountability regarding the iPone consumer. The law is the ruler and places it on the producer. The iPhone isn't that cheap is a side note, pointing even more on the responsible producer.
For a lynch mob an incitement for violence might fly legally. The lynchers could be half stupid idiots themselves. That would be for the court judge to decide. The common sense reason is that very often evil people want someone else to do their killing. In such a case both go to jail.
a consumer, a relative to the killed rich uncle, also benefitting from a death for example does not face any prosecution. Only the plotter and the perpetrator. Goebbels would have faced death penalty had he lived to stand trial and he knew it.
***** This is a fun subject to talk about, but In the interest of avoiding an endless comment chain that punishes everybody that posts here I'm gonna cut out for now. Either way, good food for thought, thanks.
Keep up the good legalese ^^d
I hate the fact schools don't teach about his stuff smh
Think about it. If schools taught about this the younger generations of people would try stopping it in the future. But since we aren't taught about this in schools, we won't try to stop it in the future. That's why I hate school.
I agree, our honor society at my college is actually hosting a huge fundraiser for OURrescue tho with multiple raffle prizes, including a grand prize of a 3 month membership to any LA fitness in the world!
My school is now
I agree and am really frustrated 6 years of education and I was taught about human trafficking only once in one lesson. That is outrageous
She has such a nice voice
Dear Ted, stop putting ads for the other Ted Talks during the end of the vid I'm watching. It cavers the screen. It degrades the focus of the Ted talk. It cheapens the experience with distractions and enticements. It's a bad habit common to You Tube.
A talk about Human Trafficking is no place for a commercial.
Thanks.
What a great and powerful talk. Thank you for sharing this knowledge.
It's hard to figure out what changes needed to be made to my everyday life to help stop human traficking. I mean, it's such a hidden layer.
Excellent talk!
Thank you so much, Noy, for this enlightening talk about human trafficking and exploitation in the most "regular" places.
This makes me think about the possible sufferings hidden behind bargain deals that I might have blindly and greedily consumed. Yet, to the average Joe, I find it challenging to unearth the truth about whether or not a foreign worker providing me a very pocket-friendly service has been trafficked reluctantly or not. E.g Manicurist providing manicure services on her own friendly accord. Ultimately, this talk has been useful in raising awareness of widespread human trafficking.
If not for an off duty police officer, then my 14 year old cousin would have been kidnapped by two traffickers. They used social media to stalk her. We all should be cautious when allowing underage family members to be on social media so long as human trafficking is a problem.
"Our prosperity is no longer our prosperity when it is pinned to other peoples' pain" ~ Noy Thrupkaew
Bravo!! I hope the world will a better place in the future because of people like her.
I was really amazed while I was watching the video, as others kind of problems around the world but never concern about human trafficking. People have to face about what's going on. In this case, unbelievable how police or justice system can be part of it and doing nothing instead helping, just because they are from different countries, or they are poor, different color or race they will be assaulted and even abused because they are in U.S???
As persons, they have right, voice, feeling. They are person who come to US for a better life and better economic status, better future.
We people have to learn everything what we can, and about companies, we need to be conscious how products are brought to our hands so easily without knowing the background, I mean, there are people who wastes lots of food making potluck , parties or another sort of activities, and sometimes activities that even make sense.
Thank you for this ted talk.
I grew up on a small family farm and I know firsthand the hard work it takes to plant, grow, and harvest food from garden food to animal food. I have always thought of where my food came from once I left home. I don't throw it in the trash because to me, that is someone's hard labor. But I see this a lot. Like, take it home and eat it later. People in this country are so disconnected from where their food comes from, so it's nice to see this. *** Clothing is the same. I had to opportunity to meet with women who worked sewing factories. I only buy things from resale shops now. If people only knew that the person who worked to make the item are treated like slaves, then they would stop supporting it.
This speaker is amazing.
A brilliant talk, but I still don't understand exactly what I'm meant to do about it? Apart from being more aware and sharing with others, how am I meant to make a difference?
Charlie Howard boycott these companies
It's interesting that in the talk, she mentions us just buying a fair trade product isn't enough. That's a start - supporting organizations that fight for equal rights. But also, I think there is a call to push our society and government and local organizations to really try to fight against human trafficking. You could be a part of protests, you could purchase items from companies that strive for equal rights, you could email or call your senator demanding that laws be changed to support people vulnerable to exploitation so that they can fight themselves as well. In general, really helping contribute to the global conversation that this is unacceptable and we as society are responsible for standing alongside victims and fighting human trafficking.
This speech is realistic and convincing. So much truth in it!
Let’s take Costco for instance, a USA company that sells - among many items - inexpensive food such as shrimps.
The fun fact is that among the buyers there are the Costco stakeholders who claim to be benefactors. Surely, they know that the cheap shrimps come more likely from Costa Ricans or Thailandese shrimp farms where cheap labor and pollution by chemicals are ordinary practices.
An excess in consumption of those farmed shrimps might have negative health consequences.
this was very powerful
its not that hard to abuse the law if you know what you are doing and they DONT, and thats why the victims of human trafficking is mostly poor and uneduacted person.
"our prosperity is no longer prosperity as long as it is pinned to other people's pain" - ending recruitment fees for migrant workers, stop supporting companies that won't eliminate exploitation labor from their supply chains, then demanding laws that call for the same. Got it!
Congrats on a well educated speech.
She is pretty - like Gina Rodriguez. More importantly - thank you, THANK YOU NOY, for this amazing information. I never knew what "human trafficking" actually meant. It was too difficult for my mind to process, so I never looked into it. But I have finally become curious and your talk has been SO educational. Thank you!
Does anyone have a list of companies to avoid which use human trafficking?
The US Department of Labor has an app, Sweat & Toil that identifies products from countries that include labor trafficking. www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/apps.
This is how I use it: when I shop, I check where the product was made/grown. Let's say I was buying clothing. I click on garments in the app, and it shows me the countries where Forced Labor (Labor Trafficking) occurs when making garments. Right now, the app says that this is known to occur in China, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Argentina, and Brazil. Then if the piece of clothing is made in of these countries, I don't buy it unless the company selling it specifically certified it fair trade or some other equivalent certification.
They have all kinds of things listed, electronics, clothing, fireworks, bricks, gemstones, food, cigarettes, tea, etc.
The only bad thing is they haven't done research countries like the USA, or many European countries even though human trafficking exists there as well.
It’s happening in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
#BasicIncome for all!
well explained with facts
It sad a video like this barely has any likes and yet you can watch mindless videos that have over 100,000. These are conversations that we should be having. In this life you might not be affected but in the next that might be different.
God Bless you! Keep fighting! This is all so heart breaking to hear. I hear the wealthy say they are ok with illegal immigration, and now I see why.
And this is all the dirt you don't hear about.
Just wow
Brava
it feels like her speech does not justify the content of her work. I didn't like her speech but many things she said was really interesting and important.
I can’t find the speaker online to message her. Anyone have her information?
Whats going on with he voice in this? Like at 9:55 it sounds like it was edited together...
She stood in the grocery store for weeks?!
Isn't it Interpol's jurisdiction to crack down on international human trafficking?
The LA-to-world ratio is so off at 9:50, the ratio of 20mil/50k is nowhere near equivalent to 7.5bil/4mil. Still though that difference is staggering and really sad
Her comments about prostitution convictions highlights to me that it shouldn't be illegal in the first place. In most parts of Australia it's legal, but pimping is not. The reality is that regulating industries that will exist regardless of them being legal or not will fix some of the problems.
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People could run somewhere but they refuse it-A person cant just go and help someone-They need to know international numbers that are just a global line with all languages-You speak into the phone-a world help line-Artificial Intellegence-call it, it knows you location-Someone will come to investigate-People cant get away from their nonsense-Its probably not easy!
How do you say her name
Yet no one seems to Care about Kony.
why doesn’t this have more veiws
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Food is cheap... at what cost?
radash suffering in every aspect of food production and harvest. From the farmers growing the food in either abject poverty, exposure to toxins and crushing debt, the animals raised & slaughtered in inhumane & unnatural conditions, to the workers grossly underpaid & horribly treated to harvest it. Start to finish tragic with many victims
The consumer is made a unknowing accomplice to all this suffering. The consumer suffers too. Cheap food is often toxic and unhealthy. The only ones who benefit from this are those who sell these products the large corporations.
Decent talk for raising awareness with stats and anecdotes, but no tangible solutions.
Hi Senk! Love ya mate! You look hillarious with your eyes gouged out like that ... No bloke I've met can do that. You're the one!
Except for when she addresses the relationships between trafficking and immigration law, not enough labour inspectors, and the screen of plausible deniability that protects corporate entities from acknowledging the true source of their wealth
Anyone found to be trafficking in any way.... seize all assets... immediate execution upon conviction....
WALMART found to be selling that shrimp...?? seize all walmart assets...life in prison no parole for all Walmart Officers, Directors and Senior Leadership.... prison to be served on one of those fishing boats.
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wow,a good public interaction.the same thing is happening in kinsale ROAD accomodation centreCORK IRELAND,run by ARAMAK IRELAND WITH R.I.A, RESIDECES ITEEGRATION AUTHORITY,UNDER THE (INIS) IRISH NATURALISATION AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES.CONCIECE AND FAIR AND RESPECT FOR THE RULE OF LAW IS NOT APPLICABLE TO ALL STAFF AND THE OPERATOR.WITH THEIR ATTITUDES TO THE RESIDENCE MIGRANTS.
wdym if desired to go out of prostitution at your own will.. who would want to be one if that was a chosen career. wow just wow
CNN and Rolling Stones will need to watch this now
...and conventional medicine,poisening kids and adults, and parents traumatizing kids..
So her parents are in jail right? Because she reported them to the police for the assault on her nanny? Right? RIGHT???
Her parents weren't taking her of her during that time, just her auntie, she didn't specify who the person beating was, she said it for just another 'relative'.
11:14
reason? money money money money money....
"Behind the everyday bargains we all love - the $10 manicure, the unlimited shrimp buffet - is a hidden world of people bought and sold to keep those prices at rock bottom"
But even the expensive !bargains like Apple and other leading brands have shady production line workforce practices ?
Thought journalist where suppose to be balanced and unbiased ...
David Stevens 🙈 speechless
She focused on some things, not all things; the talk would have lasted all day. I don't have Apple. Do you?
Apples taste good
You cannot effectively deal with any types of problem if you don't understand them in their entirety or at the very least call them out for what they truly are. An example a predator does not hunt to demonstrate power a predator is not hunting in hopes of gaining a false sense of control over others the situation. Those desperate anxious impulsive emotions perfectly coincide with those who are feebleminded physically inadequate submissive subservient. These points have been scientifically classified religiously verified in layman's terms call them what they are which is romantic failures that are constantly consistently aligning and surrounding themselves with those who commit the weakest form of criminal conduct which is a sexual crime how's that for locker room talk.
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I work in south texas minutes from the border i need to pay my lot 28,000 if you can cover that i would like to join your organization and live in my car anywhere i will go and work the fields. Around here they have busted like 6 houses with women that are sent to bars to make money
unrelated: does anybody else hear that awful frequency in her voice that is resonating profusely?? It's driving me mad
i just want to know the answer i can' t be bothered to listen to the story
So she’s really just gunna glaze over the fact that her parents bought and beat her nanny regularly?? She doesn’t think she needs to address that further?
Wow, a social justice talk about actual injustice and actual oppression and not some BS about how women are treated in vidja.
So a woman dying or having to endure pain because aborting a dead fetus is illegal is BS to you??? Wow, please stick to your tiny man cave
@@papasfritas6071 keyword "not"
Tedx Talks: claims to be against human trafficking
Also Tedx: admits to having a stalking program...
If only this was what the social justice movement was about, I could get behind it
Oneness vs the 1% by Vandana Shiva is a good book regarding becoming more involved in healing the life on Earth.
You can't have it all ways to the middle. If you want local police not to involve themselves with immigrant populations, they can do that. If you want police to arrest and prosecute trafficers, they can do that. But, you can't say human trafficing is illegal and then ask one component be prosecuted but not another. Society needs to decide what the narrative is regarding immigration, legal or otherwise.
Waltham1892 umm, I think "being charged" is about cases like people (of any gender) being kidnapped, kept locked up and forced to get raped for money. would you charge them with prostitution if they're discovered by police?
but if it's crime in general - of course there should be equal rules for everybody
KilluaXIII There are those who are pure victims, people told they were being sent to jobs and rather found themselves horribly abused and exploited. Then there are those who came just to find work. In the end both are here illegally (as little as some like to use the term), and both would face deportation. You can't ask law enforcement to ignore this crime but prosecute that crime when both are linked. Its been my personal experience that 90% of "illegals" are just folks who came to this country for the same reason my Great Grandfather did. They just came at a different time and are a different color.
Waltham1892 You can have the police treat prostitutes like victims rather than criminals instead of gang raping the prostitutes and sending them to jail.
Mastikator Its been a long time since I was in uniform, but I don't remember gang rape as a standard booking practice in the US.
In fact, I don't remember any uniformed officers arresting prostitutes.
I have head stories about the cops in Mexico, especially in the border states.
Are you asking me to make apologies for law enforcement agencies in other countries? Cause that would seem to exceed my authority.
Waltham1892
What am I supposed to do with you anecdotes and apologies?
I agree with what she is saying...but after living in Thailand for 15 years, Tokyo for three years and Hong Kong for three years I never met a woman that was a prostitute that did not do their trade out of their own choice. I wanted to write a book about this and one day maybe I will. Most make the choice and they do have to pay a hefty fee to their coyote/mama san/pimp. The women never get rich but their trackers do. But they do make the choice.
Do you actually think someone that is a victim will openly tell you that they're being forced to do this? They're being threatened constantly. So no the choice is NOT always theirs.
Prohibit animal trafficking, makes it impossible to traffic human's/children. Bro
So are the victims brainwashed into joining human traffickers? Or is it just that they were that desperate and simply had no choice but to cooperate to be able to survive?
Both.
Happening in China too - Chinese guys traffick North Korean defector women for forced marrages or forced labor. Often children are forcefully seperated from their mothers when they are sold. The north Korean children are simply abanded on the street or sold elsewhere. Young sisters also sold seperately. When the women escape to south Korea later, children born between Chinese fathers usually left behind in China. Not all chidren reunite with their moms in south Korea. More than 80% of the defectors to south Korea are female.
If you agree with her, which I do, we all need to be prepared to pay $200 for a pair of Nikes. I have no problem with this.
Takes away societal context
People don't remember things from birth to 3 years
They remember.
They can remember notable events, especially traumatic ones.
Military toys and sales
Wouldn't it be better to get deported?
This is awkward... I have a pineapple plantation phone case from Hawaii.. Whoops
Human trafficking : A small price for salvation
A "Small Price"? The lives of thousands are a small price for you? And salvation? Whose salvation? What salvation? It's disturbing how unmoved by oppression and exploitation you are. Disgusting
73 pimps
와ㅅㅂ저 미국ㄱ가서 일하게 해준다하고 납치하는거 일제강점기때 위안부 소녀들 일본군이 납치했던 수법이랑 똑같네...ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
As long as she left out she was a journalist I would have believed her... That fact killed everything för me ...
000mcm Why? What does that change?
Why?
000mcm Nah, this is one of the few issues where it's perfectly fine for journalists to adress it.
Journalist usually exaggerate the truth, or so is the stereotype.
Cyrus A. Because journalists make a lot of things up about their lives to make themselves more interesting and give them something to write about. Its more common than you think.
So, don't want to be abused in these ways in the United States? Don't come here without legal status. Our Criminal Justice system has been designed to protect children and adults who have been registered and who are known as students and as taxpaying, legal workers. How does this lady stand there with this criticism of our system, when her topic is people who do not want to be discovered as illegals?
Question for this speaker: Why should our criminal justice system, along with our social services system be burdened with discovery of these cases, and with rehabilitation of victims? We are burdened in this way. As these victims are discovered, rehabilitation begins, at US taxpayer expense.
Don't want to be treated as a slave in some Asian owned motel or oriental restaurant? Don't come here as an illegal. Respect our laws and stay in Thailand, or whatever country you belong in.
Final point: The greatest percentage of shrimp consumed by US citizens comes from the Gulf of Mexico. Look it up, since you are so fond of research.
Unfortunately this is only the tip of the iceberg! Go Trump! He’s trying to stop this horrible atrocity.
She just strikes me as the type of person who starts with their conclusion and works back to the "facts". Obviously an important message but a poor messenger.
How so?
human trafficking?! social justice warriors have more important issues to care about!
JustCause:Reason Do you have a list? Maybe a top ten of what we're supposed to care about in order of importance?
Julia Allen
Well for starters, man-spreading, banning the word bossy, shamming a scientists for wearing shirts, shamming exercise products for marketing to their target audience, getting "sexism" out of video games, affirmative consent laws, attacking the "wage-gap", the rape culture, Racism and Sexism that doesn't allow people to enter colleges and "safe spaces" for "discriminated people".
Jarb2104 so what you're saying, is unless we can solve every single problem, we shouldn't try at all?
susan blue No, what I am saying is that there are more pressuring problems than others. I would even say some of the mentioned in the list are not even problems at all.
I think the last 6 on that list are very important. Clearly you are not discriminated against based on gender, race, or sexuality, otherwise you would see the need for them.
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This Ted Talk is so long... Why you pick dis teacher;;; TT_TT
She is just all jaw. Wtf is your neck 😂
Interesting. Where is the proof?
Human trafficking is a horrible crime however it is needed in todays world, it is needed to keep supplies high and prices low, without human trafficking there would be high prices for technology, and it wouldn't take long for the consumers to start to cry again with the high prices, Human Trafficking is a loop, and it cant end until there is massive change to wages, even that would upset the economy and make the world crash. Yes it is bad, but unfortunately we cannot live without it.
when no one can afford your prices, prices tend to go down. These corporations that send their manufacturing to other (third world) countries, do so to gain even higher profits. Trust me, the majority of us can live without corrupt capitalism. the problem is the 1% can't, and they're the ones who control everything.
ironically exploitation has been shown time and time again troughout history to be the main way of eliminating itself.
eliminating it for the sake of eliminating it only ends up creating more.
also...that speaker is so bad.
she keeps making appeals to emotions and cant finish 2 sentences without stopping for effect or looking like shes about to fake cry.
my ear is bleeding from that lisp
How could anyone put a thumbs down on this video? Democrats