Modern Slavery

Tonight I went to an awareness speach on human trafficing. I felt like their message was valid and that I should forward my efforts in raising awareness by posting a few of their facts here in my blog:

Every year thousands of children will be sold for the purpose of forced commercial sex. Girls as young as fice years old are trafficed into brothels where they will be tortured, abused and raped. After years of abuse these children become disposable people within the cultures of their own country. Released from servituted into the streets, they continue commercial sex work, resort to drugs and alcohol, suffer from sexually transmitted diseases, and ultimately, many resort to suicide.

This tragic scenario is uniquely pervasive in Southeast Asia, with Cambodia serving as the unfortunate epicenter of recruitment and enslavement in commercial sex trade. The problem is so compelling that it demands a response from the international community to help bring an end to this kind of exploitation and abuse.

Currently groups like Transitions Cambodia, Inc (http://www.transitionscambodia.org/) and International Justice Mission (http://www.ijm.org/) are working on rescuing women trapped in the sex trade as well as aiding to the capturing of criminals involved in the sex trade.