Recently I saw a film about Human Trafficking. It seems that we too often turn away our head or disregard our responsibilities when it comes to this topic.
Millions of people, mostly women and children, are being bought and sold into the human trafficking industry. To us they are people who are being abused physically and emotionally, but to the Traffickers they aren't seen as humans but products in their ''business'' which makes millions a year.
Many women and children are tricked into sex slavery. If they want to break free, they are threatened that their relatives (sister, brother, child...) will be killed - and often this happens. They have no chance - too much die after some years in this kind of prostitution (HIV, Hepatitis, Homicide...).
Many are sold by their families because they need food to eat or health insurance. Others are deluded with wrong promises (become a model, get a good job - in most cases in a foreign country...). This happens all over the world - for instance in the Philippines as well as in the new Eastern Europe countries and - of course - in many African countries.
By being in this type of slavery, many children who are supposed to be playing in the park, or going to a birthday party, will never be able to experience the joy, instead they are raped and emotionally destroyed.
Help to stop this kind of torture and abusement of children and women! Please inform yourself about this new kind of slavery and talk about it. It happens in the middle of our so-called free world - probably in our neighborhood.
Combating Human Trafficking
Helen Bamber Petition
What is Human Trafficking?
Some Reports (German Language)
Joy - A Personal Story (Vienna/Austria)
Human Trafficking in Vienna (Austria)
Dangerous Internet
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