American Heroes Today
The Battle to Pass the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Act

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
December 18, 2008

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/390/american-heroes-wilberforce-trafficking-victims-protection-act

Excerpt:

Please don't call me an optimist–my view of humanity and of human events has become far too sober–but, it is plain to see: Although the forces of evil may triumph, the battle is at least joined. Good men and women are "doing something." They are fighting. Sometimes, they are even winning.

For example: In addition to the widespread and increasing use of rape as a systematic weapon of war, even of genocide, the international trafficking in persons, mainly women and children, has also risen alarmingly. Children are sold and women are lured or kidnapped and then sold into sexual slavery. All this is true and seems to be getting worse.

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