Written by Annalise Kempen - Servamus - Tuesday, 04 March 2008
“You refuse to do it, but in the end you have to accept reality. You can run away, but where do you run to? You want to talk, but who do you talk to? You are totally confused.” This was the plight of a young Nigerian girl who had been trafficked to Italy. When she realised that she had been lied to and that she would have to sell sex instead of working in a restaurant, as she had been promised, she cried non-stop for 5 days.
This young girl is one of the millions worldwide who have become silent victims in international populations who are not allowed to lead the same lives as are generally expected of young people in our modern times. These silent victims are not allowed to speak out - and form the very heart of an international crime for which no reliable statistics are available to determine how big the problem really is. . .
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