Child and Sex Trafficking

From the previous workshops for Child Labour,it is clear that lack of law enforcement is why the exploitation doesn't stop. As far as we know, Child Labour are forced to work because of the benefit of the commercial sector in general, may it be the developing countries, or the developed countries.

What can be worse than Child Labour?

Well, Sex trafficking/Sex Slaving is no where far from Child Labour. It is in fact much more torturous being raped under forced conditions, not to mention some of them involving Child under the age of 13 in some countries. 

The United Nations estimates that between 800,000 and 4 million men, women and children are deceived, recruited, transported from their homes and sold into slavery around the world each year. Eighty percent are women, girls and young boys trafficked into commercial sexual exploitation. Of these, more than 200,000 women and children from Russia and Eastern Europe are forced into prostitution each year.

Western demand for Eastern European prostitutes fuels today’s sex-slave industry. Currently, the market for Slavic woman and children in brothels and in pornography in "developed" countries — particularly the EU and the U.S. — is the hottest compared to other parts of the world, and is drawing on an endless supply of impoverished and vulnerable women.

Researchers point to poverty, chronic unemployment, domestic violence and drug addiction as the primary “push factors.”

But sadly, there isn’t enough discussion of the real root of the problem — the men. Human trafficking is basically international sexual terrorism perpetrated against women and children on a mass scale by men. It is their demand for illicit or predatory sex that generates huge profits for the slavers and leaves behind the tortured minds and broken bodies of those women and children they violate.


http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/62902/20100916/sex-traffic.htm

http://www.childwise.net/downloads/Child_sex_trafficking.pdf

Raychelle, CM Tan