Below is a trailer to the Lifetime movie Human Trafficking. As you watch the video, keep in mind that this happens to hundreds of people all over the world on a daily basis.
Imagine living in a nation where women and children were heavily trafficked. How scared would you be to leave your home? Would you even leave your home? Women and children in Cambodia and Southeast Asia must face their fear everyday while going about their daily activities.
Cambodia is a source, transit, and destination country for human trafficking.The traffickers are reportedly organized crime groups, parents, relatives, friends, intimate partners, and neighbors.Cambodian men, women, and children are trafficked for sexual and labor exploitation in Thailand, Malaysia, Macao, and Taiwan. Cambodia is a destination country for women and children who are trafficked from Vietnam and China for sexual exploitation.Cambodia has internal trafficking of women and children from rural to urban areas for sexual exploitation. Many victims believe they will be working as domestic servants but are later coerced into sexual exploitation.Human trafficking in Cambodia has increased because of a number of factors, including poverty, socio-economic imbalance between rural and urban areas, increased tourism, lack of unemployment, education, and safe migration; poverty being the most significant cause of trafficking.
Wow, this is crazy. I wasn't aware that things like took place, I'm glad i watched this video. -Jasmine K.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the education!! Such a terrible thing and we were not aware of it!!!
ReplyDeletei cant believe slavery is still going on today on sutch a large scale. the united states should dedicate more time to ending this horrible tragedy.
ReplyDelete^^^ i agree with jasmine, we don't know things like this happen, and James your write we should dedicate more to this tragedy. Human trafficking is horrible, we should open our eyes more to these type of things!
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OMG In this day and age you would not think these thing happen. I believe that as long as the market for these girls exists so will the trafficking and the the purchaser should be punished steeper than the seller!!! Which I am sure they are not punished at all significantly anyway.
ReplyDeleteAs they say, history repeats itself. How terrible that once again America,and its neighboring modern allies have chosen to close their eyes. It is a shame that this can happen without outrage from leading world nations. Why does it have to take OUR nation to step up and raise world wide awareness. Only when we invest billions of dollars do our allies join in. We closed our eyes to the Holocaust, we closed our eyes to the early days of AIDS, Darfur, and international genocide. NOW HUMAN TRAFFICKING!! SHAME SHAME
ReplyDeleteThere's a holiday in Cambodia!
ReplyDeleteAll the old social problems are still alive today. Slavery, racism, its just all to a lesser extent.
ReplyDeleteWhat is really sad is that this is not only happening in Cambodia. Young women are being captured in different parts of Africa and sold as slaves as well. I recently read Slave: My True Story by Damien Lewis and Mende Nazer. How can this horror still go on in our world today? Why do we close our eyes to this? How can we stand by and allow people to be treated this way? I recommend this book to everyone; it will make you want to make a difference!
ReplyDeleteThank you for bringing the subject of human trafficking to light. It's important to be aware of the awful things that go on, but we can do things to help, like you are, by educating people. Education is the key to bringing to light things we would rather ignore. Once enough people know, then something can be done. Good job, and keep on being involved, we need people like you!
ReplyDeletei agree with jasmine and habeeb with the fact that we didnt know this was still hapenning today. in my opinion i think the governments should step in and try to protext their women children and men as much as they can. by letting their innocent citizens go through this they are not protecting them in any way. i would like to know why the governments dont do more to try to stop the trafficking
ReplyDeleteI have a friend who lives in Cambodia. The poverty is so extreme that there are only 10 nurses in the whole country! I once did a fund raiser selling holiday ornaments that students made to send funds to Cambodia. It only takes about $35 U.S. dollars to pay a nurse for a whole year. There is an extreme shortage of health care workers, which makes caring for children a financial hardship. I believe this contributes to the human trafficking problem. Nice work ladies! Garcia.
ReplyDeleteIt just shows us how little we really know about what's going on, outside our own world. It just just opens my eyes more and more.And to think that at time I can be seriously ungrateful and selfish for the things I have and for the things and for the things I may not have. When there are women and children in this world being taken for human trafficking I can even imagine living that way day after day. Something major should seriously be done. No one deserves to live this way.
ReplyDelete-- Athena Hairston
Human trafficking is a terrible tragedy. Honestly I really wasn't aware of it still occurring to this day. I personally think the government should take charge in this event. People shouldn't be suffering in this kind off tragedy.
ReplyDelete-Arlinda Draga
I never new how big an issue this was. Even if it was only a minuscule issue it is still horrifying to know that this happens to anyone! I want to learn more about this topic and to be someone that helps these poor women. No one deserves this treatment and those that believe and promote it are sick and need to be stopped. I want to help!
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