Tag: global slavery
Not For Sale - Say no to Human Trafficking (an eye opening read)
by admin on Feb.27, 2009, under Books, Interesting WWW., society
I recently got this book from one of the warehouse sales around. I would say it is one of the best and most realistic book that I’ve ever came across. Definitely worth a read. Most importantly it has opened-up my mind on many perspectives on various global slavery issues we thought could not have happenned in the 21st century, but unfortunately it still EXIST. The stories actually gets your heart pounding- imagining the severity of the victims’ situations, especially when the survivors tell shares their stories of non-stop tortures, rapes, close-to-death experiences, escapes, and finally FREEDOM.
Authored by David Batstone (a professor of ethics at the University of San Francisco), the book shared a few real life stories about survivors of slavery including:
- How girls at young age ended up in sex parlours and brothels in Cambodia and Thailand?
- How South Asians ended up being a bonded labourer for generations?
- How children at young age were abducted and trained to kill as a child soldier in Uganda?
- How Eastern European women were transported by the European sex syndicates from one country to another and end up in US, Middle East or Asia Pacific?
- How Peruvian children ended up in the sex market and controlled by pimps?
- How slavery take place in the modern-day America?
More info:
“Not For Sale is a campaign of students, entrepreneurs, artists, people of faith, athletes, law enforcement officers, politicians, social workers, skilled professionals, and all justice seekers, united to fight the global slave trade,” find out more about this campaign at http://www.notforsalecampaign.org/
You can also read more on global slavery updates from the Not for Sale website, i.e: Human Trafficking by US military subcontractor in Baghdad, UK Unveils Plan for Sex Trade Crackdown,FBI: Local child-prostitution roundup snares more than 100 in Bay Area, Project Censored: Not For Sale Featured in Top 25 Censored Stories of 2009,How China has created a new slave empire in Africa,Uganda: Churches, bars cited in human trafficking, and many more.
