ABOLISH SLAVERY'S BLOG
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Excerpt from Mission Slavery
- Posted on 02.19.09
Related causes: Human Rights
Written by Sandra Kirkpatrick
The last night I was in Bangkok we went back to a brothel that poses as a hotel for Middle Eastern people. In the basement of the hotel on bright pink platform steps behind glass are women on display who are for sale. Usually these women had applied for a job as nannies, maids, or the like only to find themselves shipped to Bangkok and told they were going to be prostitutes. If they protested they are told they would be in the country illegally and would be jailed; they are threatened with violence, and/or brutalized and their families at home are threatened and/or harmed. Few women feel they are able to escape, or know where they would go if they could escape.
Our purpose was to make contact and let them know we were there, and if they would indicate they needed help we could provide it. The hotel did not consider us a help and the restaurant staff would never serve us, but we were not ignored as the hotel security always followed and watched us ...Read More -
Victims' Stories
- Posted on 01.06.09
Related causes: Human Rights
These are some of the individuals we have retrieved from slavery or encountered in our fieldwork overseas due to the generosity of our compassionate sponsors and donors.
Madut Yok Yai
Interviewed in Northern Baragazal Sudan, in December 1999 following his last three years of enslavement in Darfur. We asked this nine year old about his mother, and the there was a silence, “The mother is dead” someone said. Madut pulled leaves from the foliage and told us that one time he lost a goat and was severely beaten. Madut doesn’t understand that we’ve spent $50 dollars for his freedom, or what is happening and he becomes emotional when they ask who is mother is? A woman in the group says she has been taking care of him and confirms to him that it is okay for him to tell us what happened to him. Madut starts to cry, and human rights activist Sharon Payt comforted him and dried his tears, telling him that its okay, and that he will lead a good life. Over the years when I fly back to Norther...Read More
