Human Trafficking, Disappearing Women Washington State Senator National TPP Team Conference Call March 8, 2015 - 7:30 p.m. EST/4:30 p.m. PST Call-in Number: 605-562-3140 PIN: 951146# Trade's Shameful Secrets: Human Trafficking, Disappearing Women With Special GUest: Washington State Senator Maralyn Chase

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All Power to The People Washington State Senator Maralyn Chase March 8, 2015 International Women’s Day

Stipulations and Observations Recognize the difficulties of operating as a multi-national corporate group Governments across the globe want their rules and regulations followed while Corporations and their subsidiaries want the same rules in all countries Take a brief look at the impact of international rules devised by trade negotiators What are the impacts on state legislatures and what are the impacts on at least some the 99% - trafficking and slavery Are trade rules the foundation for a global constitution with veto over power from the people?

A State Legislator’s View Corporations and investors roam the world in search of profit to increase their share of growth in income 70% - 80% of trade is between corporations and their subsidiaries

TRANSPACIFIC PARTNERSHIP A TRADE AGREEMENT NEGOTIATED IN SECRET BY THE US Trade Representative and their foreign counterparts with only selected corporate partners from our country included in the negotiations.

Regulating the Regulators Trade agreements do not regulate trade. They regulate the regulators. Trade negotiators advance proposals to “facilitate trade” by limiting domestic regulations.

TRADE AGREEMENTS ARE RULES Rules crafted to limit the way governments regulate trade

Congressional Committees Excluded Committees with jurisdiction touching on the issues covered in the negotiations have been excluded from the negotiations.

GLOBAL ADMINISTRATIVE LAW Formerly the province of constitutions and legislators Not province of trade negotiators

FEDERALISM A form of government in which a constitution distributes and divides powers between a national government and subnational governments – states – who also have a constitution. Examples: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Mexico and the United States

Washington State Constitution, Nov Washington State Constitution, Nov. 1889, Article 12, Section 7: FOREIGN CORPORATIONS No corporation organized outside the limits of this state shall be allowed to transact business within the state on more favorable conditions than are prescribed by law to similar corporations organized under the laws of this state.

FREE TRADE AND FEDERALISM Free trade agreements are not harmonized with traditional American values of constitutional federalism Trade negotiators are not limiting the preemption of state law and preserving the authority of state legislatures, our budgets and our state regulatory authority Free trade agreements do not commit the federal government to protect state lawmaking authority

Investor-State Disputes Free trade agreements give investors greater procedural and substantive rights for review of claims against U.S. law and policy than would be provided to a U.S. investor under similar circumstances. Several foreign investors have used the “investor-state” provisions of free trade agreements to attack state laws and state court decisions before in international tribunal. Foreign investors have received greater substantive and procedural rights in the WTO courts

WTO Court in Geneva or State Courts Investor-State Disputes Settlements If an investor believes his/her ability to make a profit has been threatened by a regulation, they can by-pass domestic courts. WTO courts give foreign corporations greater substantive and procedural rights than domestic corporations.

State Governments Excluded No consultation with state governments even though the proposed agreement covers many areas of state-reserved policy prerogatives.

WTO V State Legislatures WTO negotiations must incorporate a concerted effort to consult with state legislatures State legislatures set policies about government-provided services, regulations of monopolies, provision of essential services (such as energy, water, wastewater, environment, health, education, public safety) labor law, (hours to work, days of work, working conditions, health and safety, and living wage provisions) powers of public utility commissions, or privatization

THE HEART FOR MANY DOMESTIC REGULATIONS Protecting the environment from operations of utilities, pipelines or mining operations Preserving historic communities Preserving local culture and character of neighborhoods Promoting development through financial SERVICES Assuring universal access to energy services

TRADE RULES AND REGULATIONS UNDER WTO WTO rules are meant to ensure that only issues related to service quality and consumer protection should be the subject of state regulations and that other “exogenous” factors should be excluded – where did your beef come from (COOL), impacts allowed on environment, air, water, etc.

Legislative Powers None of us serving in the legislature agreed to any designation of our legislative powers to TPP negotiators, their corporate partners or, as a matter of fact, to Congress. Our oaths of office precludes the violations of our constitutional obligations under federalism. se

Federalism and the WTO and GATS U.S. is signatory to the World Trade Organization’s General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) GATS attempts to apply trade rules to and regulate tariffs for industries beyond the production and shipment of tangible goods. GATS touches upon many sectors regulated by states and of interest to state legislators, particurarly Gats Mode 4: The movement of natural persons - Guestworkers

Mode 4: Natural Person as Service Supplier present in territory of another Member country Employer recruits migrant workers for businesses in private economy. ILO estimates 20.9 million people are victims of forced labor globally, trapped in jobs they cannot leave. 14.2 million (68%) migrant workers are victims of forced labor exploitation in economic activities such as agriculture, construction, domestic work, and manufacturing, and food processing and packaging. GATS Mode 4: The legalization of trafficking? Moving “work crews” to another country with no legal guarantee of how to return home.

Two abusive employment and recruitment practices leading to debt bondage. High recruitment fees, inflated by exorbitant loan repayments taken out by migrant workers to pay the fees which can lead to debt bondage. Employers confiscating workers’ identity documents allowing employers to control workers’ freedom of movement and prevent them from leaving employment.

TRAFFICKING IN HUMAN ORGANS

Trafficking young girls in the United States Traffickers target mostly young girls who average between 12 and 14 years in age and are usually from low-income homes where one or both parents are absent. Many of the girls are already victims of child abuse and neglect, and many are struggling with drug and alcohol abuse.

Sex Trafficking of Americans The Girls Next Door There are basically two business models: manipulating girls through violence – that is called “gorilla pimping – and controlling them with drugs. Human trafficking – the commercial sexual exploitation of American children and women, via the Internet, strip clubs, escort services, or street prostitution – is on its way to becoming one of the worst crimes in the U.S.

New Study from Fordham Measures Human Trafficking  and its Link to Homelessness Out of 174 homeless youth between 18 and 23 years old who were surveyed, nearly one-quarter—or 23 percent—had been trafficked or had engaged in survival sex.  The study highlights the role of homelessness in forcing young people into “survival sex,” or the trading of sex acts—such as prostitution or stripping—for basic needs such as food or shelter. 

Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women in Canada Indigenous women and girls in Canada have been murdered or have gone missing at a rate four times higher than the rate of representation of indigenous women in the Canadian population which is 4.3%. The most comprehensive numbers available were collected by the non-profit organization Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) through an initiative financed by the governmental entity Status of Women Canada. New report by Interamerican Commission on Human Rights

Man Camps in North Dakota “They treat Mother Earth like they treat women... They think they can own us, buy us, sell us, trade us, rent us, poison us, rape us, destroy us, use us as entertainment and kill us. I’m happy to see that we are talking about the level of violence that is occurring against Mother Earth because it equates to us [women]. What happens to her happens to us... We are the creators of life. We carry that water that creates life just as Mother Earth carries the water that maintains our life.” Read more athttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/08/28/ brave-heart-women-fight-ban-man-camps-which-bring- rape-and-abuse-151070

Child Slaves May Have Caught the Fish in Your Freezer In reality, vulnerable individuals are sold to fishing boat captains for a huge profit, and must then work off several thousand dollars of “debt.” Thai immigration and law enforcement officials are often complicit in these deals. Prosecution of perpetrators is rare. Many migrants get sold from boat to boat and don’t see land for years, sleeping in the open and forced to take bizarre amphetamine cocktails to stay awake for days on end.

Described as the creation of a 21st century system of indentured servitude Gives employers the flexibility to cut labor costs by firing their own workers and contracting with a labor supplier who can bring in foreign workers at lower pay (with very few legal rights) Guestworkers will be contractually bound to an employer Workers will not enjoy the customary legal rights they are entitled to in their home countries or that native-born workers in the host country have

GATS Mode 4-Legalized Human Trafficking lack physical access to labor unions, legal services, human rights organizations, and courts in their own country the jurisdiction of the courts in most cases will not apply because the abuse will have occurred outside the territory of the worker’s home country the movement of workers under Mode 4 will typically be from poorer countries to wealthier countries thus, setting up a “brain drain” scenario

GATS Mode 4 LABOR MOBILITY Costs of transportation on borrowed money with high interest rates Labor Agencies – recruitment processes Holding travel documents from trafficked individual No requirement from home country to guarantee travel home

Retention or Confiscation of Identity Documents Passports, work permits, certificates of qualification or travel documentation, typically affects international migrants. Restrictions on workers’ freedom of movement, ties them to particular employers or jobs, forcing them to do work in fear of losing their documents.

GATS Mode 4 Impact on Women - International Women’s Day Women will fare even worse than men United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), women constitute 50 percent or more of migrant workers in Asia and Latin America and they significantly outnumber men in countries such as Indonesia, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka.

GATS Mode 4- Impact on Women International Women’s Day Most women migrant workers are in precarious jobs, often at the mercy of their employers and recruiting agencies In the U.S., there are numerous documented examples of women domestic workers being held in near-slavery conditions Domestic workers are often brought into the U.S. legally by employees of embassies, the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and other international institutions under special visa categories (A-3 and G-5)

Trade agreements and the 99% Lopsided income growth in the United States 1979-2012 Over this period, the average income of the bottom 99 percent of U.S. taxpayers grew by 18.9 percent. Simultaneously, the average income of the top 1 percent grew over 10 times as much—by 200.5 percent.

When Corporations Rule the World 70% - 80% of trade is between corporations and their subsidiaries Human beings have become “human capital” devoid of International Human Rights Trade Deficits – imbalance of trade is an imbalance between headquarters and subsidiaries in multiple countries National Government with power granted by the people defers to corporations’ World Trade Organization and trade negotiators

Q & A with Senator Maralyn Chase

THANKS AND WRAP-UP Upcoming speakers AND Tentative Topics: Watch your Email for more details and registration information: Robert Kuttner, Economic Policy Institute – TPP and the Income Gap John Bonifaz And Ben Manski – TPP and the Corporate Money Machine Dr. Erik Monasterio – TPP, Patents and the Global Health Crisis