USFMEP
US Federation for
The Trafficking of Young
Girls in the 21st Century
PRESS RELEASE
The US Federation for Middle East Peace conducted its 2nd Annual Human Trafficking Forum at the United Nations during the 51st Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women on Monday, February 26, 2007
“In the 21st Century,
there are 27 millions slaves worldwide. This is a shared global shame. This
year’s theme is ‘Eliminating Violence and Discrimination Against the Girl
Child.’ Approximately 50% of those enslaved today are children. We must join
hands to fight this global phenomenon, and comprehend how the eight different
faces of human trafficking interconnect and overlap transcriminally and
transnationally,” says Salwa Kader, President of the USFMEP and Board Member to
the “Children in Slavery Global Campaign.”
USFMEP’s human trafficking forums
will literally walk the audience across the globe with trafficking and health
experts, a survivor, journalists, and a law enforcement official with expertise
on all continents – specifically covering
“Since I started covering this story
nearly seven years ago, public awareness has heightened, but the numbers are
exploding. The civilized world needs to move this slavery issue to the
forefront, and create practical solutions to reduce the numbers. It is
unacceptable that slavery even exists in the 21st Century. The volume
and money are simply off the charts, and the ages of these victims are getting
younger and younger” says Christine Dolan, Investigative Journalist and Author
of Shattered Innocence – The Millennium
Holocaust, the 2001 groundbreaking international report.
“Human trafficking on the street
generates $31 Billion annually on the street and Internet pedo-criminality
generates $34 Billion. Over the Internet, babies and toddlers are being raped.
This is morally repugnant,” says Mrs. Kader. This human trafficking session will
address the eight different human trafficking faces engulfing this horror – sex, labor and war slaves, Internet
pedo-criminality, sex tourism, organ and skin trafficking and ritual abuse
torture.
The First Panel: Canadian Ritual Abuse Torture experts – Jeanne Sarson and Linda MacDonald will share their ground breaking work on ritual abuse torture; Kelly Watt, a survivor of ritual abuse torture; Lois Herman, Coordinator of the Women’s UN Report Network, who has led trafficking projects around the world.
The Second Panel: Clive Michel of the
UK Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center and Virtual Global Task Force
– an international law enforcement operational task force, which is heeding the
call to catch the predators and traffickers; Aarti Kapoor, a US and UK lawyer
who has served as legal advisor in South East Asia; Christine Dolan,
Investigative Journalist; Ann Holladay, Co-Chair of “Children in Slavery Global
Campaign.”