Post by gabs on Mar 5, 2008 23:20:39 GMT 10
www.myspace.com/saynotosextrafficking
Article from the myspace page;
IT'S HAPPENING HERE & NOW!
SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE!
Many women are forced into the sex trade after answering false advertisements!
Others are simply kidnapped! Thousands of children from Asia, Africa, and South America are sold into the global sex trade every year.
Often they are kidnapped or orphaned, and sometimes they are actually sold by their own families!
-Estimated 2milion people are trafficked annually across international borders.
It can be like men, women and children, but approximately 80 percent are women and girls and up to 50 percent are children.
Although you may not know it, innocent girls are being sold as sex slaves all over Australia!
Traffickers work to create fear and dependency amongst their victims, by getting them addicted to hard drugs, taking away travel or ID documents, beating them or threatening to harm their families if they do not cooperate! Many of these sex slaves may be illegal immigrants and are told by their attackers that if they do attempt to seek help they will be prosecuted!
The universal Declaration of Human Rights clearly states:
“No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.”
Sex trafficking is a clear violation of this human right!
It is vital that something is done to help these horribly abused victims. It is happening in our country so we have an obligation to stop it! The best way of doing this is to raise awareness!
People have to be informed!!
______________________________________________________
I suppose a little DA wouldn't be out of place?
Maybe we could talk some of that over in person while we're in melbourne?
I'm gonna do me some research!
Article from the myspace page;
IT'S HAPPENING HERE & NOW!
SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE!
Many women are forced into the sex trade after answering false advertisements!
Others are simply kidnapped! Thousands of children from Asia, Africa, and South America are sold into the global sex trade every year.
Often they are kidnapped or orphaned, and sometimes they are actually sold by their own families!
-Estimated 2milion people are trafficked annually across international borders.
It can be like men, women and children, but approximately 80 percent are women and girls and up to 50 percent are children.
Although you may not know it, innocent girls are being sold as sex slaves all over Australia!
Traffickers work to create fear and dependency amongst their victims, by getting them addicted to hard drugs, taking away travel or ID documents, beating them or threatening to harm their families if they do not cooperate! Many of these sex slaves may be illegal immigrants and are told by their attackers that if they do attempt to seek help they will be prosecuted!
The universal Declaration of Human Rights clearly states:
“No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.”
Sex trafficking is a clear violation of this human right!
It is vital that something is done to help these horribly abused victims. It is happening in our country so we have an obligation to stop it! The best way of doing this is to raise awareness!
People have to be informed!!
______________________________________________________
I suppose a little DA wouldn't be out of place?
Maybe we could talk some of that over in person while we're in melbourne?
I'm gonna do me some research!