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14 Tul. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 295 (2005-2006)
Human Rights and Existing Contradictions in Asia-Pacific Human Trafficking Politics and Discourse

handle is hein.journals/tulicl14 and id is 301 raw text is: Human Rights and Existing Contradictions in Asia-Pacific Human Trafficking Politics and Discourse Nancie Caraway* I. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................. 295 II. No TRAFFICKING WITHOUT DEMAND ............................................. 301 III. THE W EST AND THE REST ................................................................. 304 IV CONCEPTUAL CLARITY AND REDEFINITIONS ................................... 306 V SECOND GENERATION TRAFFICKING PARADIGM ......................... 310 VI. CONCLUSION-ACTION AGENDA .................................................... 313 I. INTRODUCTION Never have the ethical dimensions of modernity been drawn more sharply than at the contemporary intersection of globalization and human rights, as manifest in the burgeoning practice of trafficking in persons. In our globalizing world, with its accelerating contractions and human dislocations, trafficking has increased in magnitude and reach, becoming a major human rights concern. Trafficking has grown almost fifty percent from 1995 to 2000, bringing into sharp relief those who are winners and losers in the global marketplace.2 In the past decade, considerable units of the United Nations-the Economic and Social Council, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the International Organization for Immigration (IOM), the * Ph.D., Director of Women's Human Rights Projects, Globalization Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii. E-mail: nancie@hawaii.edu; telephone: 808.956.9385. 1. The critical literature on globalization is immense, with many analysts pointing to the human costs. See, e.g., ALTERNATIVES TO ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION: A BETTER WORLD Is POSSIBLE (John Cavanagh & Jerry Mander eds., 2002); NAOMI KLEIN, No LOGO: TAKING AIM AT THE BRAND BULLIES (1999); PETER SINGER, ONE WORLD: THE ETHICS OF GLOBALIZATION (2002); JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ, GLOBALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS (2002); Michael Ignatieff, Human Rights: The Midlife Crisis, 46 N.Y. REv. BOOKS 58 (1999). For globalization's impact on Asian working women, see WOMEN AND WORK IN GLOBALISiNG ASIA (Dong-Sook S. Gills & Nicola Piper eds., 2002). 2. UNITED NATIONS DEv. FUND FOR WOMEN, ISSUE BRIEF ON VIOLENCE, http://www. womenwarpeace.org/issues/violence/violence.pfv.pdf (last visited Apr. 19, 2006). 295