Help To the Contrary's awareness-raising campaign lead to freedom for hundreds or thousands of girls enslaved in prostitution in the United States, Asia and Africa. To the Contrary will work with governments that are not prosecuting crimes of enslavement very frequently if at all and show them how when they break up child and human bondage rings (whether these rings enslave girls for prostitution or families for slave labor) they receive praise on the world stage and help to end human bondage.
The UN reports 2.4 million people are enslaved in human trafficking at any one time & 80% are being exploited as sexual slaves. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime says $32 billion is earned every year by unscrupulous criminals running trafficking networks. Two out of 3 human slaves are female & only 1 in 100 is ever rescued. There is a global lack of strong legislation & police training to combat trafficking & governments must start cracking down on this hideous industry as the only way to end it.
We will document human trafficking in several Asian & African countries (e.g.Thailand, Nepal, Congo) & the US to persuade influential government officials they must either work to eradicate it or face public criticism for allowing the bondage trade to continue. We will cooperate further with governments that fight trafficking by raising global public awareness of their good work. This in turn will spur eradication by more governments and the saving of more women & girls trapped in bondage.
The long-term effects will be to liberate 100s or 1,000s of women & girls trapped & to educate tens of thousands of influential people worldwide about the scope of human trafficking. There are millions of people, mainly women & girls, trapped as sex & domestic worker slaves around the world---including in the United States. This will be the first time the cooperation of governments in ending human bondage will have been documented and distributed to a global audience on TV, online & on Twitter.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
