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Today's Human Trafficking Awareness Day: why should u care?

by ybdale | January 11, 2010 at 09:34 am

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That's right. Today is National Global Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Therefore, many organizations, law enforcement officials, and religious groups are getting together to show documentary films, hand out tracks, and open a forum to discuss human trafficking issue to raise the awareness today. However, if you are an average joe American who is sick and tired of living up to your own life in this economy, you might say.

" O.K. How many times do I hear about some kind of days for raising the awareness for everything? A day for women, a day for animal, a day for trees, a day for planet. Please give me a B.R.E.A.K. I need a day for myself. And let it be TODAY."

I know we have so many awareness days for everything. And, it's totally understandable even if you say "today is just another day to raise the awareness for plenty of issues around the world. But, here is reason why human trafficking is not someone else's problem. It, among many other things, invovles terrorism, economy, security, and crime. To find out more, click here.

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stejeb

at 14:38 on January 11th, 2010

An excellent article ybdale, anything that helps to raise people's awareness on this subject is wonderful.

We saw a demonstration of the consequences of the human trafficking gangs ruthlessness here in the UK back in 2004.

"A Chinese gangmaster was convicted today on 21 counts of manslaughter for sending a team of cockle pickers to their deaths in the rising tides of Morecambe Bay two years ago.

The court heard that Lin, driven by greed, had taken a team of around 30 cockle pickers out to work in the Warton Sands area with no regard for their safety and without properly checking the time of the tides.

All were illegal immigrants, smuggled out of China by 'Snakehead' gangsters, and as Tim Holroyude QC, prosecuting, pointed out, "some had never seen the sea until they first went cockle picking"." source timesonline

This tragedy was a very visible example of the modern slave trade, most of the time people are unaware of the extent to which it is happening, very often somewhere very near to them.

Thanks for putting this up.