See undercover video taken by police, better understand why it happens, and who is doing it. It highlights the heartbreaking reality of child trafficking around the world. Women and children in poverty are at an extremely high risk of exploitation. 5:20 min. A 2008 Viva Network / Asha Forum production in association with Fat America Films. Sponsored by World Emergency Relief. For more info go to: www.worldconcern.org
The excrutiating history of forced prostitution with the comfort women of Japan is one that must not be forgotten. As elderly survivors of this enslavement speak out Japan legislators have mixed reactions. A Sunday morning CBS news show excerpt. 2007
Exploitation of children in West Africa is an expanding industry. Girl-children many times face horrible circumstances as they are forced in the sex-trade industry. A center for Catholic nuns, that rescues children from trafficking, is outlined in this release. A VOA West Africa news production. 3:00min. 2008
2008 London trafficking symposium that attempts to help work through the problems of trafficking and forced prostitution of women in London. Organised by Mary Honeyball MEP and Val Shawcross AM. Film 7:37 min Jan 2008 For more info go to www.tackingtrafficking.net
"Sacrifice" examines the social, cultural, and economic forces at work in the trafficking of Burmese girls into prostitution in Thailand. It is the story of the valuation and sale of human beings, and the efforts of teenage girls to survive a personal crisis born of economic and political repression. Each year thousands of young girls are recruited from rural Burmese villages to work in the sex industry in neighboring Thailand. Held for years in debt bondage in illegal Thai brothels, they suffer extreme abu
A very powerful new film about Comfort women and Japanese legislators response to the issue. Reports about the forced sexual-use of women during the war were presented as clear evidence before the Tokyo War Crimes tribunal citing that through these acts Japan was involved in war crimes during World War Two. The tribunal convened on May 3, 1946, and was adjourned on November 12, 1948. Women used as forced sex-workers by Japan military forces during the war are speaking out in public today in rising numbers..
On November 28, 2007 M.P. Olivia Chow asked the Canadian House of Commons to vote for a motion demanding help for comfort women in Canada. 3:06 min film.
The business of selling people today is active and happening at alarming rates inside the US. Watch this CBS film about women and trafficking. Tracy Smith reports / producer Kim Kennedy. Sept. 12, 2007 release.
Monday, November 13, 2006
FBI frees Mexican child from Forced prostitution in US - Nashville, TN. This ordeal began when sex traffickers promised a girl from Mexico passage across the U.S. border to a "restaurant" job in Nashville. The investigation brought charges against 10 men for running brothels full of Latin American women and girls who were forced into prostitution after they were promised legitimate jobs in the U.S. Two of the people charged with luring these ordinary immigrants into prostitution
This is a very powerful video that will change the way you see our world. Quotes from children who have suffered under human trafficking from a film produced by Ahava Kids. Ahava Kids was featured on a CBS show covering the crime of US trafficking in 2007. To see this CBS news release go to: http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3257320n
Get more information at AhavaKids.org. or go to Raymond Bechard's blog on trafficking at http://ahavakids.org/blog1.htm