You and the world

Stephen Eager-White

Orange Stream

The me and the world project that I’m doing is focused on child sex trafficking.  Child sex trafficking is a worldwide issue. Child sex trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation. It’s estimated that somewhere between 700,000 and 4,000,000 women and children are trafficked each year. UNICEF reports that across the world, there are over one million children entering the sex trade every year.

I’m interested in stopping child sex trafficking because no family should have to see their child become a sex slave. At the rate of how many women and children are being sold into human trafficking a year to how many days in the year there are approximately 111,111 women and children being sold each day. Adults and children are killed and abused in this industry. Even if they do make it out the industry they’re scarred for life. Ways to protect your child from being kidnapped and being sold into sex slavery are: don’t leave you child in an isolated area, don’t leave your child unsupervised, make sure your child knows not to talk to strangers, and to scream and call for an adult if they are being taken.

What I’m wondering is what do some women and children do that makes them a target for kidnappers? Do they have a look? Do they act a certain way or is it that the victims were just at the wrong place at the wrong time? I hope to learn how UNICEF plans on strengthening the laws to protect children. Also how do they plan on raising security to prevent kidnappers from exploiting children? If you want to help end human trafficking you can help here

BiblioBibliography:

1.   "Child Protection from Violence, Exploitation and Abuse." UNICEF. Web. 10 May 2012. <http://www.unicef.org/protection/57929_58005.html>.

 2.       "Human Trafficking: Sexual Trafficking." Human Trafficking: Sexual Trafficking. Web. 10 May 2012. <http://www.atg.wa.gov/HumanTrafficking/SexTrafficking.aspx>.

   3. "The Project to End Human Trafficking." Individual Action. The Project to End Human Trafficking. Web. 10 May 2012. <http://www.endhumantrafficking.org/get-involved/individual-action>.

    4. USAID Office of Women in Development, Trafficking in Persons: USAID’s Response, U. S. Department of State, Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act 2000: Trafficking in Persons Report, and Commercial Sexual Exploitation Position Statement." UNICEF UK. "Sexual Trafficking Facts." The Facts. Web. 10 May 2012. <http://www.iast.net/thefacts.htm>.

     5. "The Project to End Human Trafficking." Slavery Education & Anti-Slavery Advocacy. The Project to End Human Trafficking. Web. 10 May 2012. <http://www.endhumantrafficking.org/>.