LAWYERS TACKLING TRAFFICKING

The Hong Kong Federation of Women Lawyers is committed to the struggle for children’s rights and women’s empowerment

The trafficking of children is a painful topic to discuss, yet the United Nations estimates that more than a million children are sold each year, with most of the victims destined for the sex trade. One village in Cambodia, Svay Pak, not far from the capital, Phnom Penh, is especially notorious for this scourge, but things are slowly changing as the Hong Kong Federation of Women Lawyers, known by its Spanish acronym, FIDA Hong Kong, partners with an NGO fighting human trafficking, Agape International Missions (AIM), to stop this crime against humanity. Human trafficking, forced prostitution and violence against women and children in Asia, and indeed around the world, is a painful reality, but one that is largely hidden. However, the 2011 film The Pink Room, which features AIM and…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2019

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