May 04 2008
Creating a safe house for Iraqi kids
Ahava Kids, an NGO that specifically combats trafficking in children, asserts that child trafficking is “inevitable” wherever there is just one of the following:
1. Political chaos
2. Poverty
3. War
The organization’s website reports the disappearance of Iraqi children at an “alarming rate” and that in Baghdad alone, 5,000 displaced and/or orphaned children scavenge the streets in search of food.
Child slavery is widespread and touches every part of the world, and the more powerless the victims are, the more easily you can torture and manipulate them into sex objects, child soldiers, or laborers.
