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Coursera: Imagine: If This Course Leads to Even One Person Escaping Victimization from Human Trafficking
Below is a blog entry written by Jacquelyn Meshelemiah, Associate Professor at the Ohio State University’s College of Social Work, about the new course Human Trafficking. The course starts on August 20th. No one wins when a modern world allows human trafficking to persist. Human trafficking is deplorable and rampant. Unfortunately, it is not well understood. Passive observers argue that the number of trafficking victims is “inflated” and “incalculable” due to its clandestine nature. My rebuttal is simply this: “Even ONE slave is too many!” Unrestrained, illegal, barbaric: human trafficking forces, frauds, coerces, exploits or induces children, women and even men into selling or relinquishing their skills, bodies or body parts. Trafficking dehumanizes and victimizes by making people into objects, currency, pleasurable gadgets or machines. In an effort to expose this violation of human rights, Ohio State University is proud to of…