By: Nydia Zapata
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| ( Source: Humanitarian Alliance Blog/http://humanitarianalliance.wordpress.com/tag/offenders/) |
Slapped, punched, scratched, slammed, any other violent remark that you
could imagine is happening at this moment to a female in this world.
This abuse is coming from middle aged men, men like this that are
leaving their wives at home and paying these under aged girls for sex.
That right here is called sex trafficking, things like this are
happening as we speak. Today, yesterday, and the day before that, things
like this will even happen tomorrow. Poor innocent little and teenaged
girls throwing away their lives to do something someone is forcing them
to do. None of this was ever their choice, this life was chosen for
them. These girls are going through so much in so little time. They say
it takes 9 months for someone to be born, but only a second to die.
These girls had no choice in their lives to make the certain discussions
they wanted too. Their owners were quick to grab, but even quicker to
pull the trigger and end their lives within that one second. This is an
issue that has continued to expand over the years.
When
I was 5 I was in school, I played with my toys, and I had a nap time.
Thats what 5 year olds do, they eat, play, sleep and do other things
kids do. One thing a 5 year old doesn't do is be put into sex
trafficking. Around the world between 50 and 60 percent of the children
who are trafficked into sexual slavery are under age 16
(http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Child-Sex-Trafficking-The-Facts). Not
only that but an estimated 1.2 million children are trafficked each
year. (http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Child-Sex-Trafficking-The-Facts)
Around the world children are being sold and or trade into sex
trafficking for a living. These children aren’t only being put into sex
trafficking, but these little girls are having their vaginas sewed back
together, so that they would be picked again. One example around the
world would be “Men in Cambodia will pay thousand dollars to rape a
virgin for a week.” (Mam, pg 59) In my opinion this sounds like the
sickest thing that was ever introduced to me as a 15 year girl. When I
think about topics like this I put myself in the situation. When I think
about things like this I just say to myself that, that one person could
be me. That could be me getting punched and slapped. Having the wind
knocked right out of me. That could be me bleeding non stop, I could be
that 5 year old little girl feeling that needle piercing straight down
there. Feeling the thread going in and out and through my vagina. Having
the screaming killing my throat. Not only that but having my vagina
being reopen over 3 times due to sex. Feeling the cuts and tairs of my
vagina being reopened, sewed, reopened, then sewed again. Almost feeling
like a knife being cut right into me. Starting off slow, then
increasing the pressure. Somebodies nasty sweat falling on my body,
having to take all those hits and coming out with scars and bruises,
scars and bruises that hold stories. But not only a story but a memory. A
memory that would lie with me for as long as I would be able to
remember. That memory just might be my whole life, haunting me likes its
haunting Somaly Mam today.
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| (Source: Road of Lost Innocence by Somaly Mam) |
Somaly Mam is one women I would forever respect. This woman wrote a book called The Road of Innocence
having to do with everything I’m talking to you about. If anyone were
to ever tell me that they hate their lives one more time, I’m seriously
going to mention this amazing woman. I respect this woman so much,
everything that she’s ever been through has been nothing but hell. She
went through rape, being sold to the botherl by her own family. Not only
that but this woman right here was only 14 when she got into the
lifestyle of being a prostitute. And im only 15, that could’ve been me.
Somaly is a strong women that went through alot, there was alot of times
that she could’ve ended her life, but she didn’t want too. Even though
she was lied too, beaten, raped, sold a few times she forever kept her
head held high. She made it through everything, surprisingly. One thing i
noticed as I was reading her book was that, she wasn’t always thinking
about herself, but other people. Even though it was a situation that
requires you to depend on yourself and just try to make out there alive,
she actually thought about some people that she had working along with
her within the botherl. Somaly Mam opened not only my eyes, but others
as well. The amount of awards she won are phenomenal.
- Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation in the presence of Queen Sofia of Spain, 1998
- CNN Hero, 2006
- Glamour Woman of the Year 2006
- Olympic flag bearer, 2006 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony, Torino, Italy.
- Honorary Doctor of Public Service from Regis University
- US State Department “Heroes of Anti-Trafficking” award
- World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child in Sweden for her "dangerous struggle" to defend the rights of children in Cambodia.]
- Roland Berger Human Dignity Award 2008
- TIME magazine's 100 most influential people, with the accompanying article written by actress Angelina Jolie, 2009
- The Guardian Top 100 Women: Activists and Campaigners, 2011
- The Daily Beast Women in the World, 2011
- “Mimosa D’Oro”
- Festival du Scoop Prize, France
- Excmo Ayuntaniento de Galdar Concejalia de Servicio Sociale, Spain.
Us as a unit, as the youth can change things like this. Especially us
females, we have the right to put an end to this, make things happen and
stop sex trafficking for good. We can do things like start petitions
organize some type of moment, we have to start small but something small
can mean the world to that one 5 year old that could still someday have
a childhood. Another thing would be not only talking to females and
seeing how we can come together and change something, but also talking
to the men and young men. Go into their mind and see what’s going on and
why they do the things they do and try to change their thinking a
little bit. The smallest things can change something so big, if we just
start talking to people.
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