These things happen in the same world you and I live in... It is time to stop ignoring them!
How many of you all have seen the documentary movie - The Whistleblower (2011) - on sex trafficking in Bosnia and Herzegovina ?
I saw it and it was very disturbing. In the beginning I couldn't endure the gruesomeness of this flesh business but then I forced myself to watch the full movie because I wanted to know the truth, I wanted to be strong and understand how the real world is out there and everywhere.
Even today victims from Serbia, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Iraq and Russia are trafficked into Bosnia and Herzegovina because there are job crisis in these regions. Girls often get lured by guys who offer them best future and a promising job. Even though trafficking occurs in many other developed countries but Europe is among the worst hit countries.
Do you have any idea how critical this modern slavery is ? Girls and kids are kidnapped and locked up in cages. They are shipped in car containers across continents. Those who resist or try to escape are beaten up or killed. I've seen testimonies in which victims have confessed that her parents were killed when she tried to escape. The environment in which the victims stay are very horrific. They are dumped in underground cells, they are chained to the walls. They eat, sleep and pee in the same confined space provided. They are daily given drug injections. They are even forced to shoot for adult movies. When they refuse to act in porns... their private parts are wounded by burning cigarettes...... I know it sounds very disturbing but you have no idea about what they actually go through. There are many things which are unspeakable, disgusting and spine chilling.
Do you have any idea that every-time you click on a porn sitting comfortably in your countries, an innocent child or woman somewhere far off is beaten up and raped on camera. Where do you think all these porns are filmed? Its all filmed mostly in European countries. When you view a video, these pimps (men who run sex trafficking business) earn a lot of money by the number of viewers on their websites and this boosts up their business even more. This encourages them further more into human trafficking business. So this makes you involved too.
Watch this documentary video
Ginger Stache from Joyce Meyer Ministries looks into the world of human trafficking, including an interview with Christine Caine, founder of the A21 campaign.
UNICEF calls child marriage "the most prevalent form of sexual abuse and exploitation of girls." There are kids of age 6 yrs who are married of to men
of 30 yrs or above. Most of these kids are trafficked to another country and forced into prostitution by their own husbands and in-laws. Many die at early age because they get pregnant prior their bodies are ready . Child marriages are often seen in very poor countries like Afghanistan, Niger, Chad, Mali, Bangladesh, Guinea, Central African Republic, Mozambique, Nepal . As you can see, six of those eight are in sub-Saharan Africa. The prevalence rate in Niger is 75 percent, suggesting that three in four girls there can expect to be married before turning 18. When an 11-year-old Yemeni child bride who had been raped by her husband was brave enough to seek a divorce, the judge told her only, "We don’t divorce little girls." These kids face marital rape and domestic violence and if the family goes through financial crisis, these girls are forced into prostitution by their own husband and in-laws.
Lets have a look at 2013 map
National Hotline for Children (operated by the State Agency for Child Protection and Foundation “Animus Association”): 116 111
In Hungary: 06-80/20-55-20 – Crisis Management and Information Hotline.
Abroad: 0036 80/20-55-20
Out of hours contact: Centre d’Intervention National: +352 4997 2341
SOS Imigrante, hotline for all migrant situations 808 257 257
Terrafem, a non-profit organisation that runs a national helpline for immigrant women: 020 52 10 10
Report child trafficking (in Swedish)
For more information please visit website of the National organisation for Women’s and Girls’ Shelters in Sweden.
TEL : 03-7960-3030
TEL : (60) 3-7960-3030
Watch this documentary video
Ginger Stache from Joyce Meyer Ministries looks into the world of human trafficking, including an interview with Christine Caine, founder of the A21 campaign.
Title: Joyce Meyer Ministries meets Christine Caine
Theme: Your Faith
Series: A21 Campaign
Duration: 32m
One of the few Survivor's Testimonies
Jeff Edwards, "The Sex Factory", The Mirror ,19 May 2002
[accessed 23 January 2011]
TESTIMONY OF ELENI - Eleni, 25, didn't know the friend who wrote inviting her to work as a waitress was now a prostitute. Once at the Bosnian restaurant her new owner told her she had been bought for 900 DEM and had to repay him by having sex with his customers. When she refused she was beaten until she couldn't walk for days but was still forced to have sex.
She said: "My owner told me 'You are lying down anyway so you can still work for me.'" After two months she was sold on to a man who held a pistol to her head when she threatened to go to police.Eleni was moved to a remote house after corrupt police tipped off her owner that Interpol was looking for her. He raped her several times then passed her to a third owner as she had become "too dangerous." She said: "I was a slave. I was no more than a piece of meat."
Teenagers 'used for sex by UN in Bosnia
Stewart Payne, Telegraph, 25/04/2002
At one time this article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible
[accessed 4 September 2011]
A human rights investigator who claims she was sacked for exposing the sexual abuse of Bosnian women by her United Nations colleagues, told a tribunal yesterday that girls as young as 15 were offered for sex. Kathryn Bolkovac, 41, said women were forced to dance naked in Bosnian bars frequented by UN police officers.
Prostitution in the disguise of 'Child Marriage'
Prostitution in the disguise of 'Child Marriage'
UNICEF calls child marriage "the most prevalent form of sexual abuse and exploitation of girls." There are kids of age 6 yrs who are married of to men
of 30 yrs or above. Most of these kids are trafficked to another country and forced into prostitution by their own husbands and in-laws. Many die at early age because they get pregnant prior their bodies are ready . Child marriages are often seen in very poor countries like Afghanistan, Niger, Chad, Mali, Bangladesh, Guinea, Central African Republic, Mozambique, Nepal . As you can see, six of those eight are in sub-Saharan Africa. The prevalence rate in Niger is 75 percent, suggesting that three in four girls there can expect to be married before turning 18. When an 11-year-old Yemeni child bride who had been raped by her husband was brave enough to seek a divorce, the judge told her only, "We don’t divorce little girls." These kids face marital rape and domestic violence and if the family goes through financial crisis, these girls are forced into prostitution by their own husband and in-laws.
Lets have a look at 2013 map
Infant farms
Victims of sex trafficking who turn pregnant are shifted to a place which is meant to keep all pregnant prostitutes together till they deliver their child. They are kept in dingy places devoid of any medical care. Once their child is born, after few weeks their kids are snatched away from them and are put in a separate place. While their mother's are forced back into prostitution these children are grown in this child farm like place and trained for prostitution. Children in Thailand are sold to foreigners for as low as $2 per hour. Most of the customers who hire them are from advanced and developing countries. They come to Thailand because in their own countries it is costly and illegal whereas here in Thailand they don't have fear of getting caught and they find it cheap and easily available. Imagine the life of these innocent kids who are born in brothels and have no idea of what parenthood is like and what means to be in a family. They don't get to know about the outer world, they don't have any social and spiritual touch.
As soon as they are born they are taught how to please their customers. For them that job itself becomes their livelihood because they never went to school, they got no education and thus they can't afford proper good job as we do. They have no idea what freedom means. They are forced to watch pornography and are taught to act as shown. They are brainwashed by assuring that someday they too can be actresses on videos like the porn stars.
There is a high value for virgins basically because they are devoid of STDs (sexually transmitted diseases) and HIV. Reseach shows that as many as 36% of prostitutes in Thailand are HIV +. In order to avoid this terrifying prospect, many men attempt to sleep with virgin prostitutes. As a result, young girls are used by brothels and sold at much higher prices. Some perverts even believe that if a HIV infected person sleeps with a virgin their HIV disease is cured and it is passed on to the virgins. Pimps take advantage of the situation and restitch the private parts of the girls and resell them declaring them as virgins.
A sex trafficking victim named "Lisa" shows her tattooed lip with the name of her pimp, in 2011. Federal officials in San Diego say such branding continues.
Those of you who think that only girls are being abused and trafficked around are totally wrong because even boys and men are victims of forced prostitution.
What happens when the victims die
When these victims die either due to torture or suicide, the pimps harvest their organs and sell it in the black market and earn a lot. This fact is horrific, disgusting and a moral n ethical sin.
You can be their freedom
Eliminating human trafficking is a long term process but it's not impossible. You have to first look into your own behavior. Your pornographic addictions and targeting women at night clubs are fueling this nude industry. You should see the human on the other side of pornography as a real person who is somebody's child or sister or mother or brother. These victims too have dreams and emotions. No one wants to be sold and tortured, they are forced into it. It needs more than just a behavioral modification to change yourself, to be away and control your pornographic and drug addictions , you need a spiritual change too at a deep rooted level. If you stop your addictions, if you stop buying nude magazines, if you stop clicking on nude websites, you will surely weaken the nude industry. Once the demand from your side drops down automatically the supply of victims from other side will also be minimized. This is what you can do at the minimum sitting safely in your home. It would be really a blessing for the victims if you can inform the police about illegal activities going around in your own backyard.
We have A-21 campaign to help pull out the victims and keep them in a safe home.
Please do contact -
Abroad - A21 camp -1109 HOTLINE number.
Delhi - 011 - 24368638, 011-32673527
Patna - 9470001390
National helpline for India CHILDLINE toll free - 1098
Washington National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC)- 1-888-373-7888
Jharkhand - 1800-3456-531
Austria IBF - 43 1-796 92 98
BELGIUM
PAG-ASA + 32 2 511 64 64Payoke +32 3 201 16 90Sürya +32 4 232 40 30In Hungary: 06-80/20-55-20 – Crisis Management and Information Hotline.
Abroad: 0036 80/20-55-20
Out of hours contact: Centre d’Intervention National: +352 4997 2341
SOS Imigrante, hotline for all migrant situations 808 257 257
Terrafem, a non-profit organisation that runs a national helpline for immigrant women: 020 52 10 10
Report child trafficking (in Swedish)
For more information please visit website of the National organisation for Women’s and Girls’ Shelters in Sweden.
- (02) 1343, if calling from the Philippines, and
- (632) 1343, if calling from abroad.
TEL : 03-7960-3030
TEL : (60) 3-7960-3030
BULGARIA
National Hotline for Victims of Violence(operated by Foundation “Animus Association”): 0800 186 76
CZECH REPUBLIC
La Strada SOS Hotline +420 222 71 71 71
DENMARK
The Danish Centre against Human Trafficking hotline +45 70 20 25 50
ESTONIA
Human Trafficking Prevention and Victim Help Hotline +372 6607 320
FINLAND
System for victim assistance +358 71 876 3170
FRANCE
National Coordination for protection of victims of human trafficking hotline(Ac.Sé): 0 825 009 907
GREECE
Human Trafficking Resource Line (operated by Α21 Campaign): 1109 (for international calls please call 0030-2310-525149)
HUNGARY
Hotline telephone number for victims of domestic violence or Trafficking (Available 24/7)
IRELAND
ITALY
National hotline against trafficking 800 290 290
LATVIA
Hotline against trafficking (in Latvian) 80002012
LITHUANIA
Klaipedasocial and psychological services centre 8 800 66366
Lithuanian Criminal Police Bureau mailbox for providing information in connection with human trafficking.
LUXEMBOURG
Luxembourgnational contact for expertise in the field combating and preventing of trafficking in Human Beings (Police Grand-Ducale) +352 4997 6210
MALTA
Vice and Economic Crime, Police General Headquarters, contact for victims of human trafficking or reporting a crime in relation to human trafficking +356 2294 2000
NETHERLANDS
CoMensha (in Dutch) +31 33 4481186
POLAND
PORTUGAL
Hotline against trafficking 800 202 148
ROMANIA
Hotline against trafficking 0800 800 678
SLOVAKIA
Slovak Crisis Center DOTYK + 421 903 704 784
SLOVENIA
SPAIN
Institut de la Femme 900 191 010, 900 152 152
SWEDEN
National Support line, a national telephone support line for women who have been subjected to threats and violence: 020 50 50 50
UNITED KINGDOM
CRIMESTOPPERS, for victims of human trafficking or people having information that will help lead to the identification and recovery of victims in the UK: 0800 555 111
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Sarah Shuhail, Executive Director of the Shelter Centres for the victims of human trafficking.
TEL : 8007283
PHILIPPINES
Information Agency (PIA) said the “1343 Actionline Against Human Trafficking” is a project of the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO).
The program aims to assist human trafficking victims who seek help at these hotline numbers:
INDONESIA
If you suspect someone you know to be trafficked anywhere in Indonesia, please call the following hot line:
National Commission for Child Protection (Komisi Nasional Perlindungan Anak)
To access the HOTLINE from outside of Indonesia, dial:
TEL : (62) (21) 8779-1818
To access the HOTLINE from inside Indonesia, dial:
TEL : (0) 21-8779-1818
MALAYSIA
Women?s Aid Organization (WAO)
To access the HOTLINE from outside Malaysia, dial:
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