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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by willravel
Oh my god....I feel sick. Raping children is possibly the most dark and horrible thing a person can do, and it speaks in volumes about the state of the country. One third of prostitutes in Cambodia are children...christ.
My first thought is on how to fix this: the Cambodian economy needs a boom quick. How do they do that? NO MORE CIVIL WARS. As an American, I feel partially responsible for what's going on there. Things like Operation Menu are a big part of what was to blame for the civil wars. Now they still are dealing with heavy corruption in the government and the result is that the countryside has no infrastructure. Australia helped quite a bit when the financed the IRRI (International Rice Research Institute) to help Cambodia become self-sufficient in rice production.
If you want hope, then this article might help you out. It's absolutely inspiring and shows that commonality and sympathy really do exist in the world.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2842703 |
I guess if you feel responsible for it partially, then the French people should also feel even more responsibility for it for their role in the 1860's until 1970's, I mean they had a whole 110 years on the American influences of a few military actions. 
The reality here is that exploited PEOPLE children or adults (doesn't matter in my mind since the law considers all whole entity of all rights) are a matter of fact for ALL countries wherein greed and corruption are rampant from the lowest to the highest levels. It does not only happen in Cambodia, but in China, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Russia, and countless other countries, INCLUDING the United States of America.
Modern day slavery happens even today within our own borders of the USA. Human traffickers smuggle humans into the US on a daily basis for sex, low wage labor, promises to bring in families via indentured servitude for the promise of a better life.
If you want to feel responsible for something, feel responsible for the ones that happen on our very own shores.
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Human trafficking affects between 600,000 and 800,000 victims globally each year, mostly women and children, according to the U.S. State Department. Trafficking includes forced prostitution, forced labor, child soldiers, forced marriage, trafficking of people to sell organs, and child sex tourism. Approximately 14,500 – 17,500 people are trafficked to the United States each year, with New York being among the top domestic destinations for this 21st century slave trade. State legislatures in 25 states, have already passed anti-trafficking laws. However, the New York legislature failed to pass an anti-trafficking law in June 2006.
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