Groups host forum to discuss children and women sex trafficking

Apr 26, 2004

Westminster - Vietnamese American activists in Orange County band together hosting community forum to address issues of children and women sex trafficking in Southeast Asia .

Idea of hosting a community forum to address issues in human trafficking came after Dateline NBC’s Children for sale investigation that exposed a shocking reality of children working as sex workers in the brothels.

Natalie Nguyen, organizer of the forum explains: “The purpose of the community forum is to raise awareness about child and women sex trafficking, and to encourage community members to take actions against human trafficking.”

The community forum features guest speaker Gary Haugen, President and CEO of the International Justice Mission (IMJ), a human rights NGO with a mission of helping victims of human trafficking and other who suffer of oppression and injustice. IMJ is currently working to rescue children who were forced to work as sex slaves.

“There are thousands of children who were forces to work as sex slave,” Nguyen continues, “some of them is as young as five years old. This is the worst kind and unimaginable criminal act. All this must be put to an end.”

The community forum is organized jointly by the Union of Vietnamese Student Associations of Southern California (UVSA), Vietnamese American Public Affairs Committee (VPAC), and the Len Duong International Youth Network.

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