ISU Reflection

The most interesting and important topic that I learned during the presentations was Child Slavery and Child Trafficking.  The presentation was filled with facts and real life examples which was extremely significant and beneficial to the audience because we could relate it to our everyday life and the impacts this world issue has.  Child slavery and child trafficking is even in our own country, however, it effects the entire world.  This issue is extremely significant because it impacts our future generations. In addition, child slavery and child trafficking is caused and continues to occur due to many other global issues such as poverty, disparity, economic collapse, war, gender inequality, and lack of education.  Throughout the various presentations, the Millennium Development Goals were brought up and how they relate to global issues.  Although there is no specific goal for child slavery and child trafficking, many of the goals will impact and help combat this issue.  Specifically, Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education, and Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women.  These 3 goals can directly target, combat, and eradicate child slavery and child trafficking.  Not only could this topic relate to so many world events in today's society, I found it the most interesting and most important presentation during the ISU unit.
The presentation on child slavery and child trafficking allowed me to broaden my perspective on global issues and not only focus on poverty.  Although poverty is a primary cause to many global issues, child slavery and child trafficking is another issue that is significant and requires much more awareness in order to help solve the problem. Also, it shed light on the fact that child slavery and child trafficking is not only overseas in the Asian and Pacific countries, it is even in our own country.  Our world, although huge in size, it is becoming smaller and smaller through globalization.  World issues are becoming more known but there is still a lot of work to be done. Our future generations will have to live with our mistakes, and if we don't fix these global issues soon, they will continue to plague our world for generations to come.