People in Orange County, Calif., are placing want ads seeking volunteers to fight human trafficking. The ads appear in Asian community newspapers next to ads placed by “massage parlors” looking for young women.
Tammy Tran, founder and president of the Vietnamese Alliance to Combat Trafficking (VietACT), said she wanted to target young Asian women who look for such jobs, and wind up being trafficked.
“In the Vietnamese newspapers we printed ads that said, ‘Wanted: people to fight human trafficking,’ or ‘Wanted: people to stop human trafficking’,” she said. “The ads included the number for the National Human Trafficking Hotline.”
Mark Lagon, executive director and CEO of the Polaris Project and former ambassador to the State Department Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, said Asian massage parlors are notorious for trafficking.
“I admire the VietACT effort to have counter-ads,” he said. “ And of course it’s excellent to call attention to the hotline run by Polaris Project.”
Tran says newspapers continued to run the counter-ads several days after they have expired.
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10-15-09
Good News: California Residents Move to Stop Human Trafficking
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