The U.N. Press Release on its 2017 movie “Trafficked”

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FASCINATING FINDS WHILE RESEARCHING --

The movie “Taken” (2008) starring Liam Neeson followed by “Taken 2” in 2012 and “Taken 3” in 2014 started in the 2008 movie with the daughter of Liam Neeson’s character being KIDNAPPED IN PARIS FOR SALE AS A SEX SLAVE.

It didn’t take much research to ascertain that “Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery” by Siddharth Kara (Columbia U. Press 2009) is “The Bible” on the subject.

Surprises???

(A) Sex Trafficking was already the subject of a 30-page United Nations Convention Against Organized Crime (11/15/2000) buttressed by a 9-page United Nations Protocol “To Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children” (12/25/2003) and a 12-page United Nations Protocol “Against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Air and Sea” (1/28/2004)!!!

(B) On 3/18/2009, one of Washington DC’s “Top 5 Liberal Think Tanks” (Foreign Policy in Focus) trashed Prof. Kara’s “Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery” AND, BY IMPLICATION, TRASHED THE UNITED NATIONS (!!!) on the grounds that is it senseless to try to counter “the world’s oldest profession”!!!

(C) HOWEVER, in 2016 the United Nations published its 126-page “Global Report on TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS” (original capitalization).

(D) AND IN 2017 the United Nations released a movie entitled “Trafficked” starring Ashley Judd, Anne Archer and Elisabeth Röhm – which the U.N. Press Release said was “inspired by the harrowing stories of real women and girls profiled in the award-winning book ‘Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery’ by Harvard Professor Siddharth Kara.”

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(1) The U.N. Press Release on its 2017 movie “Trafficked” starring Ashley Judd, Anne Archer and Elisabeth Röhm.

(2) The UN’s 126-page “Global Report on TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS” (original capitalization) issued in 2016.

(3) The UN’s description (with an Adobe.pdf file of the actual texts available for download) of its 30-page Convention Against Organized Crime (2000) and its 9-page Protocol “To Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (2003) and its 12-page Protocol “Against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Air and Sea (2004).

(4) A 7/31/2017 article in The London Guardian entitled “‘Human Life Is More Expendable’: Why Slavery Has Never Made More Money – new research shows modern slavery is more lucrative than it has ever been, with sex traffickers reaping the greatest rewards” and containing many interesting statistics from the 2016 UN Report and from the work of Prof. Kara.

(5) A 2009 Financial Times book review of “Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery” by Siddharth Kara.

(6) A 2009 book review of “Sex Trafficking” by the Stanford U. Social Innovation Review.

(7) The disgusting trashing of “Sex Trafficking” AND, BY IMPLICATION, THE DISGUSTING TRASHING OF THE UNITED NATIONS (!!!) by Foreign Policy in Focus (“One of the Top-5 Liberal Washington Think (sic) Tanks”) on the grounds that it is senseless to counter “the world’s oldest profession”!!!
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The U.N. Press Release on its 2017 movie “Trafficked”

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UNODC hosts world premiere of 'Trafficked', spotlights global human trafficking


9 October 2017 - Lights, Camera, Action! United Nations Headquarters in New York was the backdrop for a prestigious red-carpet premiere of the movie 'Trafficked', a searing human trafficking drama inspired by true events.

Hosted by UNODC, the movie premiered last week at a packed Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Chamber with distinguished attendees from Governments, civil society organizations, and the arts and media community.

The premiere was moderated by UNODC's New York Office Head Simone Monasebian, and featured welcoming remarks by CNN award winning journalist Richard Quest.

In her remarks, Ms. Monasebian said: "Art is a powerful advocacy tool to raise awareness and we have always used it to complement our work. We hope this dramatic and true-to-life film will move people to take action against the scourge of sex trafficking."

The screening was followed by a reception in the Delegates Dining Room, co-hosted by UNODC; Matthew Rycroft, the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the UN; Jan Kickert, the Permanent Representative of Austria to the UN; and Valentin Rybakov, the Permanent Representative of Belarus to the UN; as well as civil society partners, including Harvard's Carr Center and Humanity United.

Inspired by the harrowing stories of real women and girls profiled in the award-winning book "Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery" by Harvard Professor Siddharth Kara, the movie Trafficked follows three young women from the United States, Nigeria, and India who are trafficked into sexual exploitation.

Starring Golden Globe nominee Ashley Judd, Academy Award nominee Anne Archer, Elisabeth Röhm, Sean Patrick Flanery, Madison Wolfe, and Patrick Duffy, 'Trafficked' explores the complex global crisis of human trafficking. It is a story of the strength of the human spirit, the empowerment of women, and the indestructible will to be free.

Movie attendees were moved by the gripping film and its depiction of the heinous crime of human trafficking and were called upon to support the UN Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking in Persons, especially women and children as they comprise 71 per cent of human trafficking victims.

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