Throughout the history, we have read in our history boks
that slavery was first abolished in England and USA in the first quarter of
19th century then League of Nations prohibited the slavery in 1926.
Nevertheless, this worldwide issue has never disappeared and in fact more
people are slaves today than ever before and the numbers are soaring. Men,
women and children are enslaved for many purposes including sex, pornography,
forced labor . Yet what the most people cannot stand is kidnapping innocent
children then forcing them to work for them.
Child
prostitution has become a national issue in the World. According to the
documents, solely in the United States between 100,000 and 300,000 children are
enslaved and sold for sex. Plus, the average age of entry into prostitution is
13. I f we consider this problem worldwide, the numbers can frighten us. Over
two million children are bought and sold in the global commercial sex trade.
Against this issue , numerous campaigns, actions which are films like Pretty
Baby, Life Above All, Gardens of the Night etc. and worldwide known
organizations like UNICEF, DNA have been launched to educate society about this
growing issue, eliminate the demand for sex slavery and to make it harder for
people to be a part of this abusive industry. Despite the efforst, child
traffickng has never been a agenda topic UNTIL NOW.
American
celebrities who are Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore recently launched their own foundation
to address, try and combat the issue. Surprisingly none of the organizations
have been heard that much. Thus how did these events start? Or How they became
interested in the issue? It all started via NBC’s weekly news Show Dateline on
sex trafficking in Cambodia. After watching it, Kutcher was so affected from the
story of 13-year-old girl that he decided to launch a campaign with his wife,
Demi Moore. And now, they have enlisted the help of their celebrity friends
such as Justin Timberlake, Sean Penn to launch an interactive video campaign
which they hope it wil educate people about shocking trade. What’s more, as a
means of help Demi travelled to Nepal to film a documentary for CNN about this
problem and visited Maiti Nepal which is an organization aimed to protect women
and girls from the crimes related to the sex trafficking industry.
In a
nutshell, the issue of sex slavery is more fundamental than most people
realize. Do you really still believe that the slavery was abolished in 1926? or
Are you a real man? If you don’t want tol ive in a world where these things are
happenning, then you can make a donation via http://demiandashton.org/
and make a difference for millions of women, men, children around the world. Or
at least, by liking the page on Facebook you can show your sensitivity. Don’t
forget that one minute of your time might change the victim’s destiny.
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