The Economist recently ran a story on the complexities in addressing the problem of people-trafficking and people-smuggling. It reports:
As the State Department has found, it is hard to discuss cross-border trafficking without looking at what occurs inside countries. Its reports have thus broadened into a more general look at the ways in which people are forced to work or have sex against their will. Servitude, it finds, can take many forms: for example, children are mutilated and forced to beg—or else fight in ghastly wars. Slavery, the State Department suggests, happens in many successful emerging
economies; it cites bonded labour in Brazil’s plantations, or children working long hours making bricks in China. Indeed, bits of the department’s 2008 report read as though they were penned by a left-of-centre NGO, decrying the dark side of globalisation.
I remember back in New Haven Lamont Hiebert from Ten Skekel Shirt was raising awareness of child sex trafficking. He started with his friends a grassroots organization called Justice for Children Intl. in 2002. It is now known as Love146.
