Showing posts with label Trafficking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trafficking. Show all posts

Friday, March 14, 2008

Child For Sale...

The trafficking of human beings is the recruitment, transportation, harbouring, or receipt of people for the purpose of exploitation. It is estimated to be a $5 to $9 billion-a-year industry. Trafficking victims typically are recruited using coercion, deception, fraud, the abuse of power, or outright abduction. Threats, violence, and economic leverage can often make a victim consent to exploitation.



Last week I was watching TV. Cambodia is truly an exotic vacation destination, with all that ancient cities, it's bold colors and it's legendary temples - it is truly a remarkable beauty! But 11 Kilometers North of Phnom Penh horrendous crimes that go on behind closed doors...

Children, some as young as 5 years old, are being sold as slaves for sex. How could this be happening? And how can it be stopped?