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Opposing Viewpoints In Context - Document. Opposing Viewpoints In Context - Document. For Nepali Girls Abducted into Indian Brothels, Where is Home? - Habiba Nosheen & Anup Kaphle. Every year, 12,000 women and girls are trafficked from Nepal to a life of sexual servitude in India. Many can never go back, but one survivor wants to build them a new home Full Screen 18-year-old Muna Magar, one of thousands of Nepali girls trafficked into Indian brothels every year, escaped to work for an NGO at the India-Nepal border, where she is shown here watching for signs of trafficking Please use a JavaScript-enabled device to view this slideshow KATHMANDU, Nepal --The room was sweltering and bare except for the bed.
When 14-year-old Sunita Danuwar woke up, she had no idea where she was. Danuwar, now 34, quickly learned that she -- like 12,000 other Nepali women and girls a year -- had been trafficked hundreds of miles away to an Indian brothel. When she came-to in Mumbai, she asked a heavily made-up girl what was going on. "Nepal is particularly bad right now," says Taina Bien-Aimé, the former president of Equality Now, which advocates for women's rights around the world. Opposing Viewpoints In Context - Document. Somaly Mam - The 2009 TIME 100. Somaly Mam and Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime were born around the same time — when the U.S. began secretly carpet bombing her country.
The bombed villages became fertile ground for the Khmer Rouge's growth and Pol Pot's revolution. By the time Mam was 5, the Khmer Rouge controlled Cambodia and had proceeded to kill 1.5 million people as Pol Pot implemented his radical form of communism. Torture, executions and forced labor were widespread. Families fled for safety, and massive internal displacement decimated Cambodian society in the years that followed. Against this backdrop, 12-year-old Mam was sold into sexual slavery by a man who posed as her grandfather. She eventually ended up in a Phnom Penh brothel, beginning a decade of horrific rape and torture.
She describes this period of her life simply: "I was dead. Terror is the weapon of choice for those who hold women in sexual bondage. But Mam was able to escape. Most people would have walked away. Next Rafael Nadal. Sex Trafficking: Modern Day Slavery – At any given moment, an estimated 2.4 million people around the world are the victims of human trafficking. In the Independent Lens documentary Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, celebrity activist and CARE Ambassador Meg Ryan travels to Cambodia with Nicholas Kristof to visit Somaly Mam with the Somaly Mam Foundation, a nonprofit charity committed to ending modern day slavery and empowering its survivors to be part of the solution. In a society where females are considered the insignificant sex, Cambodia is a country where most uneducated young girls are likely to not only be raped, but killed as well. The most common form of human trafficking in Cambodia is sexual exploitation.
According to TWN, today, there are an estimated 57,000 commercial sex workers in Cambodia. Human-rights advocate Somaly Mam is the founder and president of the Somaly Mam Foundation in Cambodia. Half the Sky explores the world of human sex trafficking in Cambodia. Watch. Opposing Viewpoints In Context - Document. Opposing Viewpoints In Context - Document. Polaris Project. The Face of Modern Slavery. GIC | Article. Breaking the Silence. GIC | Article. Points of View Reference Center Home: Counterpoint: Focus on root causes and on labor and migrant rights instead. Points of View Reference Center Home: Human Trafficking: Overview.