Human trafficking, NDAA rendition: Same outlawed 'inexcusable rights abuse'
President Obama has declared January to be "Human Trafficking Prevention Month," a week after he signed the National Defence Authorization Act (NDAA FY2012) codifying human trafficking, the "inexcusable rights abuse" of targeting individuals, kidnapping and indefinitely detaining citizens.
"We stand with all those who are held in compelled service," Obama wrote in a proclamation issued Saturday.
"We recognize the people, organizations and government entities that are working to combat human trafficking; and we recommit to bringing an end to this inexcusable human rights abuse."
Thousands of American youth are targeted victims of human trafficking. Shauna Newell is remarkably composed as she described on MSNBC being kidnapped, drugged, gang-raped, savagely beaten -- tortured.
The same human rights violations are experienced by those subjected to the U.S. practice of rendition, now codified to include American citizens with the president’s signing of NDAA.
(Watch embedded video on this page left, "Outlawed: Extraordinary Rendition, Torture and Disappearances in the "War on Terror.")
Human trafficking is defined as, “The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation," according to the United Nations.
Rendition, the other form of kidnapping and torture, state-sponsored officially called extraordinary rendition or irregular rendition is defined as, “The abduction and illegal transfer of a person from one nation to another,” according to Legislative Attorney Michael John Garcia.
The president’s advice?
“This month, I urge all Americans to educate themselves about all forms of modern slavery and the signs and consequences of human trafficking.”
Two days ago, Russia released a human rights report accusing President Obama and his administration of saying one thing while doing another, adhering to a double standard in relation to rights.
Russia Today highlighted that the new Russian report includes the rally cry of human and civil rights defenders over past weeks in relation to the National Defence Authorization Act 2012.
"The United States, on the pretext of fighting terrorism, is actually crushing the liberties and freedoms of the very individuals the security measures were intended to protect – the American people," the Russian report states.
Two weeks ago, the president proclaimed "Human Rights Week," before stripping Americans' rights in NDAA 2012.
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