#child trafficking
Sold by his parents to become a suicide bomber. This is child slavery.
We spent two weeks traveling around Uganda, reporting on the lives of its women and girls and it was .
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Don’t ignore the real problem
“They are exposed to so much abuse and violence: I have seen boys come in who cannot even sit down. No 15-year-old should go through that,”
“Why does this not shock and enrage people as much as it does when it’s girls?”
“They are no less vulnerable and abused than girls who are trafficked into sex work. Yet it is much more hidden, so there’s much less sympathy, and far fewer resources for boys,”
“The dialogue in Thailand - and around the world - is focused on women and girls, because the general perception is that boys are big and strong, and that they can take care of themselves,"
