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Jan 1, 1400
1400s
Human trafficking has a long history dating back to the 1400s. During this time, human trafficking existed as what we know to be slavery. This time was the beginning of slave trading from Africa, with European countries taking people from Africa and bringing them back to sell as slaves. -
1619
"Historians normally date the start of slavery in the North American colonies to 1619. That year, a Dutch ship carrying African slaves docked at Point Comfort, which served as Jamestown's checkpoint for ships wanting to trade with the colonists. The crew of the Dutch ship was starving, and as John Rolfe noted in a letter to the Virginia Company's treasurer Edwin Sandys, the Dutch traded 20 African slaves for food and supplies." (Vox, Lisa. "When Did Slavery Begin in North America?" AboutThe St -
1807
British were the first to make law against slavery. Made the Transatlantic slave trade illegal -
1820
U.S. followed, making the slave trade illegal a crime punishable by death. -
1864
"The Long Walk of the Navajo, also called the Long Walk to Bosque Redondo, refers to the 1864 deportation of the Navajo people by the government of the United States of America Navajos were forced to walk up to thirteen miles a day at gunpoint from their reservation in what is now Arizona to eastern New Mexico Some 53 different forced marches occurred between August 1864 and the end of 1866. -
1865
The passage of the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution. -
1899-1902
International cenferences to talk about white slavery in Paris, France -
1945
Sex trafficking greatly increased in the 19th century along with trafficking as a whole. During the time of World War II, a quarter million women were enslaved in sex camps to service the soldiers. These enslaved women came from a variety of countries in Asia. -
1956
In 1956, India initiated the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, which persecutes the third parties involved in trafficking. These activities included running brothels, living on earnings from sex work, capturing and imprisoning people into prostitution, etc. It can be argued, however, that this Act failed to protect the women who may have been forced into prostitution. Many of the arrests that were made were for sex workers due to soliciting, and they ultimately lost everything. Furthermore, many -
1995
In 1995, the United Nations held the fourth World Conference to address the issue of trafficking of women. In this meeting, a major accomplishment was the fact that trafficking was actually recognized as an act of violence against women, and the concept of trafficking was further defined.Most importantly, actions to be taken were also developed. These included enforcing international conventions on trafficking and human slavery, -
2009
In 2009, a large human trafficking ring was busted in Taipei, Taiwan. The case involved several young females who were brought to the U.S. illegally with fake passports. They then used these fake passports to obtain visas. They were discovered by the National Immigration Agency and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. A total of 74 suspects from the trafficking ring were brought in for investigation ("Largest"). -
2010
Senate Bill 1059 changes the legal definition of sex and human trafficking to include a person taking another for transport by deception, coercion, or force. SB 1059 is sponsored by Tucson state Senator Jonathan Paton. No other member of the Senate signed on to co-sponsor the bill. -
2011
According to the Department of State 2011 report, the U.S. was identified as a Tier 1 country with unspecified federal agencies charging 181 individuals with trafficking other humans and obtaining 141 convictions in 103 human trafficking prosecutions. Of the prosecutions reported by the Department of State, 32 were labor trafficking cases and 71 were sex trafficking cases. -
2012
"Portland—which has the ninth-largest Native American population in the country and is close to numerous reservations—has been repeatedly called one of the country’s most livable cities. But that city’s prestige took a hit when journalist Dan Rather renamed it “Pornland” in a report last year on his HDNet news program Dan Rather Reports. “Eighty-year-old men paying a premium to violate teenage girls, sometimes supplied by former drug gangs now into child sex trafficking big time? -
2002
The polaris project became a human trafficking.
