Tuesday, November 30, 2010

IHR - Narrowed down Research Question

Three Steps:
1. I am working on the topic of Human Trafficking.
2. Because I want to find out why North Korea is a tier 3 when the U.S. is only a tier 1.
3. In order to help my reader understand better the issue at hand and how the north Korean government has neglected this issue causing it to be a big problem.

Questions:
 Where is this happening? - North Korea (tier 3)
Why did this topic come into being? What is its history?
How does Human Trafficking reflect on the society?
How can it be compared across the world between different countries?
What are all the forms of media - songs, movie, tv episodes - reporting on this issue?
What groups are trying to prevent this from happening?
Is it perpetrators and governments responsibility for this happening?
Why is HT so bad in Korea, but not US? What are the differences in the forms of government/aid groups to prevent it? 
Why should Korea matter? - It has been in the news a lot.

Research Question -
Why is North Korea a tier 3 when the US is only a tier 1? 
- how is the government at fault for why human trafficking is so bad?
- is there anything being done in North Korea to fix the problem? Does the government even care about the issue?
- when did the issue start? when did it become so bad?


Sources -
Human Rights Report 2010
Articles found concerning the topic

Monday, November 22, 2010

International Human Rights - Tentative Research Proposal

1. Human Trafficking - I found an article earlier in the year on Human Trafficking in Africa and was very interested in it. It concerned trafficking to Nigeria in Africa. I had never really heard of human trafficking before I read this article and how big of an issue it was.

2. Links -
 http://www.hrw.org/en/search/apachesolr_search/human+trafficking
http://www.amnestyusa.org/violence-against-women/end-human-trafficking/organizations-working-to-stop-human-trafficking/page.do?id=1108431
http://www.endhumantrafficking.org/

Broad Research Question - What is being done to address Human Trafficking?

narrowed -
pick country to focus on
pick specific organization that is trying to make this change or that is not doing anything to make this change
why is it such a hard issue to make a change for 

Questions -
- How can it still be going on around the world? How long has it been going on?
- How are the traffickers getting away with it when the world knows? What is the world doing about it in order to prevent, stop, or change it? Why is it so hard to make a change for this issue?
- Where is it happening around the world?
- Why is this such an issue?
- When was the issue most prominent in the world? Is it still a big issue?
- What are the different types of human trafficking? What do I want to focus on?