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GOAL Women and children trafficking Increase awareness among the policy makers on trafficking issue to increase budget allocation to reduce this problem.

AUDIENCE Everybody needs more information about trafficking Our target audience are the following: 1. Policy Makers (e.g. government officials) 2. Non-government organizations 3. Law enforcers 4. Researchers 5. Donors 6. Students (schools, universities and colleges) 7. Civil society 8. Business sectors

SCENARIO By STOP STOP | Somewhere in the world, at this moment, a man is paying a pimp to have sex with a child. Maya, barely 10 years of age, is a child who has been sold into sexual slavery. She is beaten, burned, tortured and deprived of food, light and movement. Suddenly, she is highly vulnerable to kidney infections,cervical cancer, repeated pregnancies, and sexually transmitted diseases. Maya will most likely become a statistic: 60% - 70% of the one million children forced into the sex trade each year become infected with HIV/AIDS. Imagining Maya’s plight is what inspired us to take action by creating Free A Child, a non-profit organization dedicated to the eradication of the commercial sexual exploitation of children. Reference Links 

CONTENT Research Output on Current Situation Women and Children in the Sex Trade, Exploitation!!! Note: This documentation is created to awareness raising among the public and the policy makers to give emphasis to reduce trafficking on women and children issue. Historical Background Trafficking for sexual exploitation is a big problem in Asia for a long. Day by day 'sex trade' is increasing it is internationalized globally than regionally. This is the remain cause that women and children are targeted for recruitment into the sex trade because they are poor, they lack alternatives and they are powerless. in Asia mainly poverty is a factor in the proliferation of the sex trade for several reasons. The girl of the poor family are often sold by their parents, relatives, neighbors, lovers and husbands for much needed cash. Alternatively, parents may be unable to afford to feed the girl and/or would be unable to afford a dowry should she remain with them and seek marriage. Similarly, women and girls often participate in the sex industry as a means of financially supporting their families because other forms of employment are either unavailable or do not pay enough to send any money home. This lack of other employment options is indicative of the lack of both real and perceived alternatives faced by women and children of the sex trade. Sometimes the quest for alternatives to poverty leads women and children directly into the sex industry, in so far as they are kidnapped, tricked or manipulated by pimps and procurers as soon as they take steps to change their lives. Some women, for example, believe they have been hired as waitresses or entertainers in another country but upon arrival are either sold into prostitution or put to work in brothel.

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