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Story Ideas: Going Beneath the Surface<br />
• Do countries that share borders<br />
across which women are trafficked<br />
cooperate to end the practice? Do<br />
elements within governments<br />
cooperate to profit by it?<br />
• Has trafficking strained relations<br />
between different countries in the<br />
region?<br />
Labor<br />
• What industries use trafficked<br />
people other than sex-<strong>for</strong>-hire<br />
businesses?<br />
• Why do they turn to this source of<br />
labor? What legitimate workers are<br />
displaced when trafficked people<br />
are used?<br />
Transportation<br />
• How do traffickers transport their<br />
victims?<br />
• How do they organize travel across<br />
borders?<br />
• What routes do they use?<br />
Crime and Justice<br />
• How do people become traffickers?<br />
What are their motives?<br />
• How closely is trafficking in humans<br />
tied to trafficking in drugs and<br />
weapons?<br />
• How does corruption allow<br />
traffickers to work unpunished?<br />
• Are clients punished <strong>for</strong> patronizing<br />
trafficked women?<br />
• How much does it cost to<br />
investigate, prosecute and punish<br />
those involved in trafficking?<br />
Success<br />
• What approaches have worked<br />
against trafficking? In this country?<br />
In other countries?<br />
• What radical solutions have been<br />
proposed?<br />
• How do women escape from<br />
traffickers?<br />
• Where is trafficking least?<br />
successful? Why?<br />
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