make them feel that its OK.
And you feel that you can't even
give them a hug,
because that's the exact thing
that stole their innocence away.
Ashton Kutcher
Children as slaves
child trafficking, noun
the action or practice of illegally procuring and relocating children,
typically for the purposes of forced labour or sexual exploitation.
Google
What children are trafficked for
- forced labour
- domestic work
- child soldiers
- camel jockeys
- begging
- construction workers
- plantation labour
- sex
- forced labor
- domestic help
Domestic workers are the most vulnerable to sexual exploitation by their employers, especially when they are way from home in another country.
Who will help end child trafficking?
Who will defend the rights of a child to pursue happiness?
What will it take to end child-slavery?
Where are children the most at risk?
Why does the "free" world let children live in slavery?
How will we protect our children?
Will we allow media companies to profit off child trafficking?
How will the @Steemit community help the fight to end child-trafficking?
Will you look the other way?
A digital weapon
The dark web, while facilitating freedom through Tor, has been the engine for human trafficking. Even though the age of children is increasingly younger & child pornography has even more sickenly violent themes, Thorn is a cutting edge digital weapon in the war against child-trafficking.
With the internet child pornography has exploded.
Ashton Kutcher
This was a commitment we were willing to take on
for the rest of our lives.
Demi Moore
The National Human Trafficking Hotline is a national, toll-free hotline, available to answer calls from anywhere in the United States, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in more than 200 languages.
National Human Trafficking Hotline: 1 (888) 373-7888
A virtuous unintended consequence
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's INR demonetisation
Nobel laurate Kailash Satyarthi's Bachpan Bachao Andolan, has freed thousands of children from slave-like conditions. He lauds the impact that the higher denomination Indian rupee demonetisation had on child-trafficking.
Breaking the backbone of human traffickers?
"Every single rupee earned by the traffickers and slave masters is black money. This move will break their backbone.”
India is home 40 percent of the world’s estimated 45.8 million slaves, according to a 2016 global slavery index published by the Australia-based Walk Free Foundation.
Thousands of children, mostly from poor rural areas, are taken to cities every year by gangs who sell them into bonded labour or hire them out to unscrupulous employers.
Many end up as domestic workers or labourers in brick kilns, roadside restaurants or small textile and embroidery workshops. Many women and girls are sold into brothels.
Nita Bhalla, Thomson Reuters
Freedom fighters on the ground
Why India
Globally, there are an estimated 2,000,000 children in forced prostitution.
Human Trafficking is now the third largest international crime.
Freedom Firm
Greg & Mala Malstead founded Freedom Firm to help rescue children in India.
Inspite of their efforts & labour of love being "foreign missionaries", a judge in south India is shortly going to rule on whether they can continue to live in India.
The details on how you can support Freedom Firm is below.
United States
e: contact@freedom.firm.in
t: (720) 432-1607
PO Box 6440, Elgin, IL 60121
India
e: contact@freedom.firm.in
t: +91 423 244 3053
78/85, Indu Sadan, Glenrock, Ooty 643001, TN
Follow Greg & Mala Malstead's India journey through the courts in India.
No effort of love & justice is a wasted one
You can help by giving
Here's some ways that you can help. You can give through:
Prayer
Give of yourself to petition for God's intervention.
Work
Work pro bono for organisations that you know of near you
Money, Goods
Donate in cash or kind
Advocate
Speak, write, share about what can be done.
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