September 16, 2019
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 In 2024-Human Trafficking

Topic: 2024-Human Trafficking
Country: Republic of Korea
Delegate Name: Lydia Harlan The prevalence of human trafficking all over the world is incredibly disheartening. To become trafficked the trafficker might use violence, force, fraudulent employment agencies, fake promises–education or jobs–, or blackmail. There are five main types of human trafficking including forced labor, sex, forced marriage, domestic servitude, and child soldiers. Over 46 million people are currently in modern slavery 12 million of them only children, and over 50% women or girls–while 74% of women or girls in general are trafficked–. There were 88 million cases filed for child sexual abuse alone, an overwhelming amount, sex trafficking is 61% of the trafficking in general making it the most common type. While human trafficking was a problem before the advancements in technology, it has gotten so much worse with the spread and advancements of social media, and other forms of the internet. The Republic of Korea is on the top tier list along with 33 other countries and territories. The report includes noting increased trafficking investigations, the prosecution and conviction of a higher number of traffickers, implementation of the victim identification index, identification of 55 trafficking victims, initiation of the trial of an alleged complicit official, and increased cooperation with civil society organizations. The Republic of Korea also has the Act on Prevention of Human Trafficking and Protection of Victims, which helps ensure the safety of those in our country and was put in place in 2021. Also in 2021 the Sexual Exploitation of Boys South Korea Report was released, this helped the cultural thought that sexual exploitation and human trafficking only happening to females have a slightly lower prevalence. Our republic also has a released Global Organized Crime Index, which expresses each issue that is a problem in our country, and how it affects us. The Republic of Korea wants to recognize our human rights bureau is working to keep up with these and continuing to engage in helping our country. In the future, the Republic of Korea would like to first and foremost keep pushing our current acts of legislation and supporting United Nations resolutions against human trafficking. We would also like to keep enforcing our legislation and prosecuting criminals in the illegal market of trafficking humans. As for the future, the Republic of Korea is very interested in working with other countries and hearing their ideas, as for our republic we think having a system where the internet could be utilized from our side would be smart as human trafficking prevalence has grown with the development of the internet and other technologies. Additionally, raising awareness of certain areas to avoid, since sketchy areas–at night especially–are common scenes of trafficking, or even raising the awareness of trafficking in general internationally. Our country wants to recognize the prevalence of human trafficking in the international world and in our country alone, 1,432 individuals have been reported for using our victim identification index and referral SOPs. On that track we only expect the Republic of Korea to continue to see this number grow and we will ambitiously try and double these numbers for 2025. It is in not only our best interest but the world’s to attack the problem of human trafficking together, and although not the richest country the Republic of Korea will extend some funding to other countries we work with on this pressing issue. https://elaw.klri.re.kr/eng_mobile/viewer.do?hseq=61852&type=part&key=38 https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/11/korea-failed-protect-three-filipino-women-trafficking-victims-and-ensure https://ourrescue.org/education/research-and-trends/human-trafficking-statistics https://www.unodc.org/roseap/en/what-we-do/index.html https://www.migrationdataportal.org/themes/human-trafficking https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/global-report-on-trafficking-in-persons.html https://www.ctdatacollaborative.org/global-synthetic-data-dashboard https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20230702000110 https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2024/11/113_377322.html https://ocindex.net/assets/downloads/2023/english/ocindex_profile_korea_rep_2023.pdf https://www.ungeneva.org/en/news-media/meeting-summary/2024/07/examen-de-la-republique-de-coree-au-cat-la-definition-de-la https://www.state.gov/reports/2024-trafficking-in-persons-report/south-korea/ https://ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Global-Boys-Initiative-South-Korea-National-Report_English.pdf

The prevalence of human trafficking all over the world is incredibly disheartening. To become trafficked the trafficker might use violence, force, fraudulent employment agencies, fake promises–education or jobs–, or blackmail. There are five main types of human trafficking including forced labor, sex, forced marriage, domestic servitude, and child soldiers. Over 46 million people are currently in modern slavery 12 million of them only children, and over 50% women or girls–while 74% of women or girls in general are trafficked–. There were 88 million cases filed for child sexual abuse alone, an overwhelming amount, sex trafficking is 61% of the trafficking in general making it the most common type. While human trafficking was a problem before the advancements in technology, it has gotten so much worse with the spread and advancements of social media, and other forms of the internet.
The Republic of Korea is on the top tier list along with 33 other countries and territories. The report includes noting increased trafficking investigations, the prosecution and conviction of a higher number of traffickers, implementation of the victim identification index, identification of 55 trafficking victims, initiation of the trial of an alleged complicit official, and increased cooperation with civil society organizations. The Republic of Korea also has the Act on Prevention of Human Trafficking and Protection of Victims, which helps ensure the safety of those in our country and was put in place in 2021. Also in 2021 the Sexual Exploitation of Boys South Korea Report was released, this helped the cultural thought that sexual exploitation and human trafficking only happening to females have a slightly lower prevalence. Our republic also has a released Global Organized Crime Index, which expresses each issue that is a problem in our country, and how it affects us. The Republic of Korea wants to recognize that our human rights bureau is working to keep up with these and continues to engage in helping our country.
In the future, the Republic of Korea would like to first and foremost keep pushing our current acts of legislation and supporting United Nations resolutions against human trafficking. We would also like to keep enforcing our legislation and prosecuting criminals in the illegal market of trafficking humans. As for the future, the Republic of Korea is very interested in working with other countries and hearing their ideas, as for our republic we think having a system where the internet could be utilized from our side would be smart as human trafficking prevalence has grown with the development of the internet and other technologies. Additionally, raising awareness of certain areas to avoid, since sketchy areas–at night especially–are common scenes of trafficking, or even raising the awareness of trafficking in general internationally. Our country wants to recognize the prevalence of human trafficking in the international world and in our country alone, 1,432 individuals have been reported for using our victim identification index and referral SOPs. On that track we only expect the Republic of Korea to continue to see this number grow and we will ambitiously try and double these numbers for 2025. It is in not only our best interest but the world’s to attack the problem of human trafficking together, and although not the richest country the Republic of Korea will extend some funding to other countries we work with on this pressing issue.

https://elaw.klri.re.kr/eng_mobile/viewer.do?hseq=61852&type=part&key=38

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/11/korea-failed-protect-three-filipino-women-trafficking-victims-and-ensure

https://ourrescue.org/education/research-and-trends/human-trafficking-statistics

https://www.unodc.org/roseap/en/what-we-do/index.html

https://www.migrationdataportal.org/themes/human-trafficking

https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/global-report-on-trafficking-in-persons.html

https://www.ctdatacollaborative.org/global-synthetic-data-dashboard

https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20230702000110

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2024/11/113_377322.html

https://ocindex.net/assets/downloads/2023/english/ocindex_profile_korea_rep_2023.pdf

https://www.ungeneva.org/en/news-media/meeting-summary/2024/07/examen-de-la-republique-de-coree-au-cat-la-definition-de-la

https://www.state.gov/reports/2024-trafficking-in-persons-report/south-korea/

https://ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Global-Boys-Initiative-South-Korea-National-Report_English.pdf