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DATELINE: 24 NOVEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
24 NOVEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, meeting room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Simone Monasebian, Director UN Office on Drugs and Crime, NY Office:
“One in three trafficking victims are children. This is a five percent rise compared to the findings of the 2012 report. Many of those children are girls. Indeed, two out every three children trafficked are girls. When women are added to the figures for young girls, females account for 70 percent of trafficking victims worldwide. Trafficking is truly trans-global. There are no countries where vulnerable individuals can escape its dangerous net.”
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5. Med shot, children working in a rubbish dump
6. Close up, boy and girl
24 NOVEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Servino, US actor:
“The responsibility for me in being an actor – an a performer, sculptor, all the things I do, singer, everything I do- is to use whatever integrity I have in bring to bear on all my work, so that the true nature of performers’ existence is to illuminate the human condition.”
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8. Med shot, labourer children
9. Close up, boy
24 NOVEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Servino, US actor:
“When I sit next to this beautiful woman here and realized that she was a victim a this heinous crime, it’s disturb my insights and it should disturb everyone.”
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11. Wide shot, children working
24 NOVEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Rani Hong, Trafficking Survivor and Founder Tronie Foundation:
“My childhood ended at age of seven. That’s a very young age. That was the last time I saw my mother, my father, the last time I would have any contact with my family for the next 21 years.”
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13. Close up, rescued children
14. Close up, boy
24 NOVEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Rani Hong, Trafficking Survivor and Founder Tronie Foundation:
“In my case, my owner just beat me to the point that I was close to death. Since I was no longer use to my slave owner so then I was sold to illegal adoption from India to Canada, Canada into the Seattle-Washington area, where I currently live.”
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16. Various shots, children working in a plantation
24 NOVEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Rani Hong, Trafficking Survivor and Founder Tronie Foundation:
“As a we meet, a boy in a cocoa plantation is carrying a heavy sack and bleeding hands wondering if anybody will ever look for him. As we meet, another child, crying herself to sleep in a brothel, imaging the day she’ll be treated more like a piece of property… Today, I speak for those without a voice.”
18. Wide shot, meeting room
The 2014 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons released today (24 Nov) by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) shows that one in three known victims of human trafficking is a child – a 5 percent increase compared to the 2007-2010 period. Girls make up 2 out of every 3 child victims, and together with women, account for 70 per cent of overall trafficking victims worldwide.
In a special event in United Nations Headquarters, the Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime in the New York Office Simone Monasebian said “trafficking is truly trans-global. There are no countries where vulnerable individuals can escape its dangerous net.”
No country is immune – there are at least 152 countries of origin and 124 countries of destination affected by trafficking in persons, and over 510 trafficking flows criss-crossing the world. Trafficking mostly occurs within national borders or within the same region, with transcontinental trafficking mainly affecting rich countries.
In some regions – such as Africa and the Middle East – child trafficking is a major concern, with children constituting 62 per cent of victims.
Trafficking for forced labour – including in the manufacturing and construction sectors, domestic work and textile production – has also increased steadily in the past five years. About 35 per cent of the detected victims of trafficking for forced labour are female.
Speaking on behalf of UNODC Goodwill Ambassador for Global Fight against Human Trafficking Mira Sorvino, her father US actor Paul Servino said “the responsibility for me in being an actor – an a performer, sculptor, all the things I do, singer, everything I do- is to use whatever integrity I have in bring to bear on all my work, so that the true nature of performers’ existence is to illuminate the human condition.”
He also said “when I sit next to this beautiful woman here and realized that she was a victim a this heinous crime, it’s disturb my insights and it should disturb everyone.”
Rani Hong, a trafficking survivor and activist, said “my childhood ended at age of seven. That’s a very young age. That was the last time I saw my mother, my father, the last time I would have any contact with my family for the next 21 years.”
The report highlights that impunity remains a serious problem: 40 percent of countries recorded few or no convictions, and over the past 10 years there has been no discernible increase in the global criminal justice response to this crime, leaving a significant portion of the population vulnerable to offenders.
Rani Hong also said “in my case, my owner just beat me to the point that I was close to death. Since I was no longer use to my slave owner so then I was sold to illegal adoption from India to Canada, Canada into the Seattle-Washington area, where I currently live.”
She explained that her husband is also a trafficking survivor. He was a child soldier.
According to the UNODC report there are regional variations: victims in Europe and Central Asia are mostly trafficked for sexual exploitation, whereas in East Asia and the Pacific forced labour drives the market. In the Americas, the two types are detected in almost equal measure.
Most trafficking flows are interregional, and more than 6 out of 10 victims have been trafficked across at least one national border. The vast majority of convicted traffickers - 72 per cent – are male and citizens of the country in which they operate.
Rani Hong stressed “as a we meet, a boy in a cocoa plantation is carrying a heavy sack and bleeding hands wondering if anybody will ever look for him. As we meet, another child, crying herself to sleep in a brothel, imaging the day she’ll be treated more like a piece of property… Today, I speak for those without a voice.”
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