Alarming Sex Trafficking
A not-so-surprising news with stunning figures quoted, circulated by the WYPS network:The United Nations Children's Fund says South Asia is facing a boom in child trafficking, with increasing numbers of minors forced into the sex trade. UNICEF Regional Director for South Asia Dr. Sadiq Rasheed made the comment in Colombo.The question is: how can we make the men say "no", while desires of all kinds are being fanned in every corner in the form of ever-flourishing consumerism. UNICEF reports some more practical urgent measures agreed at the Second World Congress Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, which, for me, are still not revolutionary enough for the alarming phenomenon. I am no saint, but believe that every individual can do a little something in daily life to change a current....e.g. try to say "no" to any temptation?"The situation is nothing short of, I would say, a modern-day slavery," said Rasheed. "It is one of the blights of South Asia. The situation is getting out of hand."
The UNICEF official said there should be no hiding place for those selling and trading children for sex. He stressed that the problem could be stopped immediately if men in South Asia simply said "no" to child sex.
Around 500,000 women and children are trafficked each year in Asia, with a majority of them in South Asia, Rasheed added. That compares to a worldwide figure of 1.2 million.
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