Jarring reports of refugees

Tyrazial · 06-01-2007, 09:04 PM

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18988124/

I guess what I just found jarring was this paragraph:

Quote:

A 15-year-old girl drowned off a Greek island in April after human traffickers threw her and other Kurdish migrants overboard, authorities in Greece said then. Nine others were rescued

"human traffickers".... in the modern world it's hard to believe such a person even exists...

Does anyone else find this disturbing?

I honestly didn't even know the EU had an issue with African refugees. This makes some of the events at the US-Mexico border seem minute in comparison....

Axl · 06-01-2007, 09:36 PM

Trafficking is definitely a dark market which still thrives to this very day. When a "friend" informs you of work as a nanny for good pay in a nearby company and the next thing you know you're stuck working as a prostitute in the middle of a country where you can't communicate with anybody.

Human Smuggling is really small-time compared to trafficking. Here's a link to a powerpoint presentation which covers alot of the issue. It's from a class I took in the fall, so the information is all fresh. Inform me of link troubles.

Sesshoumaru · 06-01-2007, 11:47 PM

Human trafficking is a thriving business, even in some major American cities (I read that somewhere, but I can't remember where; haven't checked out Axl's powerpoint though, it if does indeed cover alot of the issue then it should have the information about human sex trafficking and how it really is quite a large establishment).

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Axl Cat Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: No Posts: 428	Trafficking is definitely a dark market which still thrives to this very day. When a "friend" informs you of work as a nanny for good pay in a nearby company and the next thing you know you're stuck working as a prostitute in the middle of a country where you can't communicate with anybody. Human Smuggling is really small-time compared to trafficking. Here's a link to a powerpoint presentation which covers alot of the issue. It's from a class I took in the fall, so the information is all fresh. Inform me of link troubles.