Ending Modern-Day Slavery

At the peak of the transatlantic slave trade, 80,000 slaves were transported from Africa to the new world. Now, New York Times human rights columnist Nicholas Kristof reports that more than 10 times as many women and girls are being forced into brothels or other forms of slavery.

In their new book, Half the Sky, Nicholas and his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, investigate the causes and the very achievable solutions to putting an end to this form of modern-day slavery. "If you begin to think of your own child not in middle school, but being locked up in a brothel, then it suddenly becomes pretty real," he says.

Children like Long Pross, kidnapped from her Cambodian village at age 13, are forced into a terrifying world of prostitution. She had not yet had sex or her first period. "The fear was overwhelming," she says. "In a room they tied your hands, and outside there was a guard. If you resisted, they electrocuted you. Sometimes they electrocuted me twice a day if I argued too much."....
For the rest of the article please click on link below
Long Pross Sold into Sex Slavery - Oprah.com

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's New Mission

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has pledged to make women's rights one of her signature issues and a greater priority than ever before in American diplomacy. In an exclusive interview with Lisa Ling, Secretary of State Clinton reveals why helping girls and women everywhere will benefit the world at home and abroad.
Please click the link below to see Hillary Clinton's mission to help women across the world.
Lisa Ling's Interview with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton - Oprah.com

Selling of Innocents

Emmy award-winning film "The Selling of Innocents" (in 5 Parts) on Sex Trafficking by Ruchira Gupta, Executive Director. You can also view the other 4 parts of the video at Youtube or by clicking below. This film is to show awareness that needs to be brought forth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1beOGLfqxA
The Selling of Innocents is a documentary exposing the trafficking in young women and children from the villages of Nepal to the brothels of Mumbai. The camera pans the hovels in the red-light area where these women service clients to earn money to support their families in Nepal. It is a sordid tale, told with rare feeling and sensitivity. Selling of Innocents wastes no time on gimmicks. It goes straight to the heart of the matter by showing the pain and the horror of the innocent victims of a system which has long been there. Winner of the 1997 Emmy in News and Journalism. Shown on Cinemax and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Children for Sale

Dateline goes undercover with a human rights group to expose sex trafficking in Cambodia
It's an exotic vacation destination, with ancient cities, bold colors, legendary temples, remarkable beauty — and horrendous crimes that go on behind closed doors. Children, some as young as 5 years old, are being sold as slaves for sex. It's a shameful secret that's now capturing the attention of the world and the White House, a secret that has been exposed by Dateline's hidden cameras. Dateline ventured into this dark place, where sexual predators can gain access to terrified children for a handful of cash. How could this be happening? And how can it be stopped?
Inside the world of child sex trafficking, each year, by some estimates, hundreds of thousands of girls and boys are bought, sold or kidnapped and then forced to have sex with grown men. Dateline’s investigation leads to the troubled and distant land of Cambodia. We reveal what “tourists,” like one American doctor, may be up to, and we'll take you inside a dramatic operation to rescue the children.
The night clubs of Bangkok and the windows of Amsterdam are among the most well-known destinations in what has become a multibillion-dollar industry: sex tourism. But the business is not all about adult prostitution. There are some places you might never have heard about, notorious places, the kind of places a sexual predator would be willing to travel halfway around the world to reach — destinations like a dusty village in Southeast Asia, where the prey is plentiful and easy to stalk.....
For the rest of the article and video footage from MSNBC click link below...
 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4038249/

Transitions Global Survivor Shares Her Story

Transitions Global Survivor Shares Her Story from Transitions Global on Vimeo.
Srey Neth, a courageous survivor that has graduated from Transitions Global's TLC program, now speaks as a voice for the voiceless - encouraging other survivors to hope again.
Srey Neth has been in the care of Transitions since 2006. During her time with us, she has studied computers extensively and has studied and become certified as yoga and yoga therapy instructor, which she currently teaches, as well as, working at the TLC in Cambodia, helping other girls with orientation and making the most of their program with Transitions Global.
The video was shot by Tim Matsui in late 2008. Additional editing by Kent Truog and music by Alexi Murdock, by permission.

Eye to Eye with Katie Couric

David Batstone, author of "Not For Sale," tells Hannah Storm that slavery is a problem that persists in the United States today, largely due to human trafficking. (CBSNews.com)

David Batstone is a professor of Ethics at the University of San Francisco. He is the founder and president of Right Reality, an international social venture firm. Batstone has authored seven books, the two most recent being Not For Sale (HarperSF) and Saving the Corporate Soul (Jossey-Bass). He was a member of the founding team of Business 2.0 magazine and served six years as executive editor of Sojourners magazine and founder of the SojoMail ezine.  He currently serves as a senior editor of Motto magazine. He has contributed articles to the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, Wired, and SPIN.  He is the recipient of two national journalist awards and was named National Endowment for the Humanities Chair at the University of San Francisco for his work in technology and ethics. During the 1980s, Batstone founded a non-governmental agency dedicated to economic development and human rights in Latin America.

Human Trafficking Commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsu-RjsUPB0
This is a commercial a small group of us created for our Human Sexuality Seminar Class as a part of a campaign to raise awareness on human trafficking.