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The numbers are staggering. Here are just a few of the statistics.
It's estimated that from one to two million women and children are trafficked each year. During a 1991 conference of Southeast
Asian women's organizations, it was estimated that 30 million women have been sold worldwide since the mid-70s. Over 100,000
women are shipped each year to Japan to serve in indentured servitude in bars and brothels. Thousands of young women and girls
are sent from Nepal to India and from Burma to Thailand. In the past year 200,000 women have been sent from Bangladesh to
Pakistan. Young women have been found in China on their way to the brothels of Bangkok. Women from Latin America and Africa
are turning up in Thailand and Europe, just as those from Latin America and the Caribbean are shipped to the U.S., although
a real study of the traffick into the U.S. and Canada hasn't been done. These numbers mostly exclude the issue of internal
trafficking for "domestic consumption."
Think of it. You're a young girl brought from Burma, you have been kidnapped
or bought. You're terrified. You have no idea where you are, what country you're in, what's going to happen to you. If you
haven't been raped along the way (or sometimes even if you have) you're immediately brought to the "Room of the Unveiling
of the Virgin." There you are raped continuously - until you can no longer pass for a virgin. Then you are put to work.....
This article was submitted by Liz from website
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