Two Must-See Sex Trafficking Specials

This month marks the premiere of two very important sex-trafficking documentaries, an issue that consistently struggles to remain in the spotlight.

On Sunday, CNN’s Freedom Project aired the special “Nepal’s Stolen Children” which featured actress Demi Moore with CNN 2010 Hero of the Year, Anuradha Koirala. We are taken to Kathmandu, Nepal where Koirala has been operating her sex-trafficking shelter, Maiti Nepal, since 1993.

Approximately 10,000-15,000 women are sex-trafficked between India and Nepal each year and if Koirala had it her way, she would save them all. “I cannot say no to anybody,” she admits. (Apart from sex trafficking victims, her shelter also takes in orphans, rape, and domestic violence victims). “Nothing is impossible if the whole world colloborates,” she says. “…But I think I also have to live for another 20 years.”

If  “Nepal’s Stolen Children” leaves you still wanting more information, check out the screenings for Bulgarian photojournalist, Mimi Chakarova’s new startling documentary, The Price of Sex. As Winner of the Nestor Almendros Award for Courageous Filmmaking, Chakarova puts her life in danger to expose the lives of thousands of young Eastern European women who are wrongfully trafficked each year. You are introduced to the chauvanistic male viewpoints that help run the system, you are shown the economic and political realities that make these crimes possible, the “bait and switch” tricks that they use, and you meet a few – (though they are never enough) – of those who have survived these gruesome journeys. Reality. Check. Reaction? You choose. http://priceofsex.org/content/get-involved