The President of the United States has declared January, National Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Even more specifically, today (January 11th) is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. How about taking 10 minutes of your day to make yourself more aware of this ongoing injustice?
Recently Equitas praised the Demi and Ashton Foundation for their advocacy and awareness raising campaign, “Real Men Don’t Buy Girls”. We continue to be grateful for the work of this foundation and it’s dedication to address sex trafficking and the variety of forms it takes.
This morning I pointed to an Asia Foundation study highlighting the difficulty of gaining a completely accurate picture of the problem of human trafficking in Cambodia. This afternoon I was alerted to Maggie Neilson's piece at the Huffington Post where she responds to recent news coverage questioning the extent of child trafficking with the (not-so?) subtle implication that we shouldn't be that concerned about it. In this article Neilson nails it: "For those of us who work on these issues, we don't do so once a problem gets to a certain size. We do it because it's the right thing to do."
This week the U.S. State Department released its annual Trafficking in Persons Report highlighting efforts and progress in fighting human trafficking around the world. The report scores 184 countries, including the United States with a "Tier Ranking" of 1-3 based on the governments efforts to combat trafficking in persons. Each country's efforts are summarized in the "Country Narratives" section of the report.
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