[In-It] 100 Years of Emergency Food, Korea Without Punishment for Human Trafficking

Harvard University Professor Ramsey's thesis is controversial.

The published abstract of thesis contains a phrase that the operation of an exhibition prostitution facility, called a comfort station, was achieved through a contract between a brothel and a prostitute.

The international community is angry at the thesis written by accepting the arguments of the Japanese far-rights that Japanese military comfort women are voluntary prostitutes and not victims of human trafficking.

Professor Ramsey's thesis did not prove that the'contract' was written at the time.

But that's not the only reason Professor Ramsey's thesis is a problem.

Even if such a contract exists, the reason that Japan at that time used intimidation or force to mobilize women for sexual exploitation constitutes human trafficking.

Human trafficking crimes and voluntary sex trafficking are infectious diseases that cannot be combined.

In November 2000, the UN General Assembly was held in Palermo, Italy.

At this time, the UN Protocol on the Prevention of Human Trafficking, called "Protocol for the Prevention, Control, and Punishment of Human Trafficking, especially for Women and Children," was adopted with the consent of 159 countries around the world.

And this Protocol contains the following:

When we say'trafficking', we usually think of terrifying situations such as kidnapping, physical violence, and imprisonment.

However, human trafficking is established even when people get consent by tricking people with sweet words such as fraud or deception.

Professor Ramsey's dissertation not only has the problem of'bad research' and'historical distortion', but also retreats the concept of'human trafficking' that the world has agreed upon.

If we think of the problem of Professor Ramsey's thesis from the point of view of'the distortion of Japanese history' to the point of'regression of human rights related to human trafficking', at the same time we must look back on ourselves.

'Traffic Victims', How does the Republic of Korea deal with traffickers themselves?

"I didn't properly explain what was going on. I didn't talk about sitting with customers or making prostitution. When I first offered to work in the Philippines, I was told to just work as a singer. But when I came to Korea, everyone was a lie."

These are the words of a Filipino migrant worker who entered Korea on an arts show visa (E-6) visa.

I enlisted foreigners in Korea by lying that I could see a lot of money if I went to Korea.

It is a definite human trafficking under the UN Human Trafficking Prevention Law.

However, most of these perpetrators are not punished for trafficking.

From 2013 to the present, only two cases have been confirmed to be punished for trafficking in prostitution.

Human trafficking has very limited application in the Republic of Korea.

Trafficking can be punished only if the victim proves to be'strictly proven' that'the victim has given up on appealing for protection to the law and order due to continued threats of threats or assault.'

Only the violation of the Immigration Control Act, which is a violation of administrative regulations, applies to the perpetrator.

“I have fed, clothed, and put the disabled who left my parents to sleep. Why should I be punished?”

Is it different that the victim is a Korean?

This is a protest from perpetrators who are always heard in the case of the exploitation of the labor force of the intellectually handicapped, which is revealed one after another, starting with the salt battle slave case in Shinan-gun in 2014.

Intellectually disabled people, who were left in the hands of the perpetrators by their parents, could not refuse to do what the perpetrators were asked to do, even if the perpetrators did not engage in any other violence or threats.

It is also human trafficking under the UN Protocol to Prevent Trafficking in Persons who are entrusted with intellectual disabilities as slaves.

However, the perpetrators are also not punished for trafficking.

The only crime that applies to the perpetrators in these cases, which is known to the world only after neighbors who have not been able to die for decades without paying a salary, report to work for decades, is overdue wages.

Regardless of the duration of the abuse, most of them are sentenced to probation and released if only a 10-year minimum wage is given to the victim.

, was the 170th out of 193 countries that joined the UN in 2015 that Korea ratified the UN Protocol to Prevent Trafficking in Persons.

Since then, the UN demanded that the Republic of Korea have a legal system that protects victims of trafficking and strictly punishes perpetrators.

On the 23rd, six years after ratification of the Protocol, the Act on the Prevention of Human Trafficking and Exploitation and Protection of Victims, etc., passed the plenary session.

So, will we finally be able to properly punish perpetrators of trafficking?

Unfortunately, it can't be.

There are no penalties for the newly created Special Act on Trafficking in Persons.

Citizens' organizations raised their voices immediately after Rep. Soo-jin Lee proposed the bill, saying, "There is no need for a special law on human trafficking without punishment regulations." It still does not give an answer to the problem of punishment.'

On the 15th, experts in the field of the United Nations expressed their concern about the bill in an open letter to the Korean government.

That is, it cannot be said that the government's obligations have been fulfilled.

In accordance with the UN Trafficking in Humans Protocol, the legislation promoted at the level of its'subsequent legislation' was passed amid the'concern' of experts of the UN.

Now we are faced with an extraordinary situation.

How will the international community react to a society where the victim is obvious, but the perpetrator cannot be punished?

Just as Professor Ramsey at Harvard University is criticized for retreating the concept of human trafficking, the Republic of Korea, which created such an abnormal situation'legally', is also criticized by the international community.

The perpetrators of the Japanese military comfort women's sexual slavery case were not punished.

100 years have passed and the mindset of human rights has changed, but trafficking perpetrators in South Korea are not being properly punished.

In the 21st century, even after enacting the Special Act on Human Trafficking under the UN Protocol, that reality has not changed.

Shouldn't we now correct this damn

situation that has been going on for 100 years?

The National Assembly should not settle down with the passage of a half-length bill, but should speed up the preparation of subsequent legislation that can properly punish perpetrators of trafficking.

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