Children in sex industry

[AngelBee]

I would like to talk about this.

I was watching a show regarding the sex industry in Cambodia. It was so heartbreaking.

Children as young as 8 years old.

What can be done?

How does a country let this happen to it's people?

How do you think it is happening in industrialized places?

[ishereal]

Human trafficking is so horrible........

[AngelBee]

Originally Posted by ishereal

Human trafficking is so horrible........

I know.

[kmeyrick]

Originally Posted by AngelBee

I would like to talk about this.

I was watching a show regarding the sex industry in Cambodia. It was so heartbreaking.

Children as young as 8 years old.

What can be done?

How does a country let this happen to it's people?

How do you think it is happening in industrialized places?

Eastern Europe has been having a problem with it. So is Central America.

These sex rings rely on weak law enforcement and regulations, as well as lack of information.

[ishereal]

Originally Posted by kmeyrick

Eastern Europe has been having a problem with it. So is Central America.

These sex rings rely on weak law enforcement and regulations, as well as lack of information.

Not to mention the people in higher echelons participating in the sex rings......

[AngelBee]

Originally Posted by ishereal

Not to mention the people in higher echelons participating in the sex rings......

[dawningmama]

http://www.childtrafficking.org/

That's a unicef organization dedicated to fighting for the rights of children worldwide.

[AngelBee]

Originally Posted by dawningmama

http://www.childtrafficking.org/

That's a unicef organization dedicated to fighting for the rights of children worldwide.

Thank you for posting that link.

Off topic: Does anyone have info on Unicef's stand on adoption?

[fek&fuzz]

AngelBee,

Turn off your TV. You seem to be watching very disturbing things tonight.

[AngelBee]

Originally Posted by fek&fuzz

AngelBee,

Turn off your TV. You seem to be watching very disturbing things tonight.

This show actually wasn't tonight

I know....what is God trying to tell me? Hmmm..... :

[urklemama]

http://www.riverkidsproject.org/

This is a good organization to donate to.

[EFmom]

I've got a map that I use in the university course I teach that shows major trafficking routes around the globe. The only countries in the world that aren't either a sender or receiver (or both) of trafficked women and children are countries that don't release any data.

[LavenderMae]

Human trafficking is heartbreaking, scary and just horrific. It's hard to explain how the knowledge that this is taking place right this very second makes me feel. I wish this kind of evil didn't exist in people.

[Tizzy]

Originally Posted by betterparent

it makes me want to nuke the world and start over

Yep cause flooding it didn't work in the long run.

[Mom4tot]

Moving to Activism.

[AngelBee]

Originally Posted by EFmom

I've got a map that I use in the university course I teach that shows major trafficking routes around the globe. The only countries in the world that aren't either a sender or receiver (or both) of trafficked women and children are countries that don't release any data.

Scary.

[Azik's mom]

Yes it's heart breaking to see what's happening to children in our own backyards, sometimes even in our own houses and around the world. I feel so helpless. I want to do something too.

[AngelBee]

Originally Posted by Azik's mom

I want to do something too.

Me too

[Momtwice]

Didn't singer Ricky Martin use a lot of his wealth for activism in this area?

[Demeter9]

Like most unpleasnt things in the human world, if it didn't have a consumer base it wouldn't exist.

Human traffickers, and the people who buy humans should be an immediate death sentence.

The destruction and horror they wreck is too awful. There is no punishment that could be enough, but I'm willing to back the one that makes this unbearably difficult. The raise the cost to the final buyer past the point it is worth it to them.