These eight exhibits on SDN explore the consequences of human trafficking around the world
Romania and Moldova are beautiful countries with an ugly problem. Every year, thousands of women, men and children are trafficked outside and within the borders for sex and forced labor. In many cases, children and young adults turn to the streets to escape harsh conditions at overrun orphanages or...
In the Mexican city of Juarez, thousands of young women have disappeared and hundreds have been found dead since 1993. This phenomenon has helped usher a new word into the lexicon: Femicide. This is described as the deliberate killing of women, because they are women. Sex trafficking and exploitation...
The discrimination of girls in India where the caste system and the religious prejudices fully impregnates the ordinary life, push thousands of girls to fall into a vicious circle of poverty and prostitution. Parents, husbands and in-laws are the abettors of this dramatic situation. For these ...
Poverty, greed, social customs, and human cruelty combined put families at risk for trafficking all over the world. As the fastest growing criminal industry, human trafficking is present in every country; resulting in an estimated 40 million victims worldwide. Kenya, in particular, is a ...
Esther Benjamin's Trust is an NGO based in Nepal that rescues, houses, educates, and rehabilitates victims of child trafficking. Their main focus began with rescuing children who had been sold into the Indian circuses, most of the time by their own family. The circus promised the parents the children...
"Violence against women is an issue that cannot wait. A brief look at the statistics makes it clear. At least one out of three women is likely to be beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetime". -Ban Ki-moon, Former UN Secretary General ...
Human trafficking is globally pervasive, economically motivated, and emotionally overwhelming. The exhibit " Faces Behind Atrocities" are portraits of seven young women, ages 13-16, from four different nationalities who have been rescued from the horrors of the trafficking world and are in the ...
In many Asian and African countries, parents allow their children to go with a family friend or relative to work in an hotel or as a domestic maid believing they will be looked after, fed, clothed, go to school and send money home. In the Mchinji district of Malawi, the reality can be very different...
