Tag: sex trafficking

  • Vietnamese women and children from rural villages are regularly targeted for labor and sex trafficking. They are often lured with opportunities for work in China, and then sold as wives, prostitutes, or forced labor. “We were told that if we didn’t agree to be wives, we would be sold into brothels,” says one victim who managed to escape. More

    June 20, 2014

  • He arrived in the Philippines in 1972, inspired by the Second Vatican Council to “get out of the rectory and into the streets” to fight human trafficking. More

    October 19, 2012

  • Sold into sexual slavery early in her life, today Somaly Mam fights human trafficking and protects young girls in Cambodia against sexual abuse. More

    February 12, 2010

  • A strong and disturbing story about sex trafficking and the courageous work of one woman in India who is rescuing young children from forced prostitution. More

    January 5, 2007

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