This Tuesday Pace University’s women’s group known as POWER held a special event to shine a light on the horrific topic that is human trafficking.
The Department of Homeland Security's website defines human trafficking as “modern-day slavery and involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act. To get a better idea of what human trafficking is, POWER leader Rachel Simon brought in Rebecca DeSimone, the director of My Sisters’ Place. My Sisters’ Place is an organization that works to provide support and services to victims of “domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, stalking and human trafficking…”.
During her visit, DeSimone educated the attendees on what human trafficking is, and how it is not always like it is portrayed in movies like Taken. Students who were there were educated on how human trafficking does not just happen in other countries, but also happens right in the United States. Students also took place in an interactive activity by being presented with a human trafficking scenario that started off as not seeming concerning, but then developing into an all too real situation. The point of the activity was to teach the students who were there about how people get forced into human trafficking.
This event was just one of many of POWER’s social justice activities. The group meets on Tuesday’s at 3:30 p.m. in the Center for Unity and Equality in Kessel.
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