Human Trafficking and Food

Human trafficking has become an epidemic. Often tricked into believing they will be given legitimate work, women and children soon find themselves caught in a web of exploitation and deceit, ending up in the sex trade, which generates funds that exceed the amount made in the drug trade, estimated at between $6 billion and $7 billion per year. Although there are no hard accurate numbers, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) estimates that in the past thirty years trafficking of women and children in Asia for sexual exploitation has victimized over 30 million people. According to sources from UNICEF and Vietnam's Ministry of Justice as well as other groups, as many as 400,000 Vietnamese women and children have been trafficked overseas, most since the end of the Cold War. They are smuggled to Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Taiwan, the Czech Republic -- and, to a lesser extent, the United States -- for commercial sexual exploitation.

New America Media (http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/) interviewed members of Chefs Without Borders - an organization of over 30 top Bay Area chefs - who threw a gala recently in San Francisco to call attention to the problem. Filmed and directed by Mike Siv and produced by NAM editor, Andrew Lam, author of "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora".

http://www.amazon.com/Perfume-Dreams-Reflections-Vietnamese-Diaspora/dp/15971...

and "East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres"

http://www.amazon.com/East-Eats-West-Writing-Hemispheres/dp/1597141380/ref=pd...
want to help: go to http://adaptvietnam.org/ or contact Diep Vuong at adapt@pacificlinks.org

For more reading: http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/search.html?search_word=andrew+lam+traff...

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• vietnam
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[pingpongYUP]

Maybe the USA, Australia, UK & other countries should stop exploiting these countries economies so the people aren't so POOR!!!!

[bigoutlaw1]

Its not about exploiting the countries for cheap labor, the third world countries are poor because the governments are corrupt. Thailand is a prime example, they have thousands of children and women that are poor and yet the economy is horrible and the government looks the other way because its been that way for years.