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[NCJessieRN]

Have any of you heard of this? My eyes were open on Monday night when I went to hear a speaker named Christine Caine! She opened my eyes to the REALITY of HUMAN TRAFFICKING! Here are a few of the horrific stats:

 

*Trafficking in women is the second largest global organized crime today,

generating approximately US$12 billion a year.[2]

 

*There are 1.39 million victims of commercial sexual servitude worldwide.[3]

Over 25 percent of sex trafficked victims are trafficked from Southern and

Eastern Europe.[4]

 

*90% of victims trafficked into EU member states end up in the sex

industry.[5]

 

*There is an estimated 20,000 women and girls trafficked into the Greek sex

industry, earning Greece the title: "the center of trafficking in Europe."[6]

 

*One study reveals that one in every 10 Ukrainian persons knows someone in

their community who has been trafficked.[7]

 

*Tragically, only 1-2 percent of victims are rescued, and only 1 in 100,000

Europeans involved in trafficking are convicted.[8]

 

I can not believe how ignorant I was! We can't do everything but we can do SOMETHING! http://www.theA21campaign.com

[hornblower]

I used to work for Immigration so yes, I'm aware of this. We intercepted several groups of women who were coming in to work in brothels. They *thought* they were going to be nannies or servants. They knew that they were not quite legit - because the nannies who come through the agencies have to have certain qualifications & these girls tended to not have much education.

 

What they did not know was that they were going to have their passport taken away, get locked in a suite in a high rise apartment & put to another kind of 'work'.

 

The women we saw were mostly from Thailand & the Philippines. The east coast saw more from Ukraine & Russia.

[NCJessieRN]

I can't get it off of my mind either! I've been desperately trying to brain storm ways to help!