women's rights- rights that promote a position of legal and social equality of women with men.
Women and girls in Southeast Asia have a very hard time when it comes to women's rights. Women is Southeast Asia have less access to important things like health care, justice systems, and education which is not okay. Surveys show that 3.8 million women and 1 million children are victims of things like sex trafficking, violence, and other harassment. There is a CEDAW movement which is the (Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women). This movement is basically a bill of rights for women and it is helping countries move towards gender equality and women's rights. The CEDAW movement is located in New York and the program went from 2011 to 2015.
Human trafficking- the unlawful act of transporting or coercing people in order to benefit from their work or service, typically in the form of forced labor or sexual exploitation.
Southeast asia is one of the highest rating places for human trafficking. People are usually kidnapped but some are tricked into it. About 225,000 people in southeast asia are taken every year and forced into things like sexual exploitation, hard labor, and some are even taken and are killed for their organs. Some families are so poor that they often sell there children or family members to these traffickers in trade of money.
sex trafficking- the action or practice of illegally transporting people from one country or area to another for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
Sex Trafficking is a big part in the human trafficking industry. Women are mainly affected by this and an estimated statistic shows that 79% of people who are taken are women and men and boys account for 29%.
why? How?
Many people ask these questions. Well there is not just one reasons but many for why or how these things happen. One of the main reasons being money. Money is the reason people do anything even if that is trafficking human beings. People sell their sisters, mothers, daughters, or wives. They don't have enough money to support the rest of their family so they sell them to traffickers. Many people are also tricked into it. Women are offered jobs and offered transportation to where the job is but are actually being set up and forced to do terrible things. There are so many reasons for why these things happen but there are ways to help stop these things.
our solution to help bring awareness and prevent human trafficking and to stand tall for women's rights in southeast Asia.
Millions of women are affected by human trafficking. We are selling shirts to help women in these situations. There are women's shelters that this money will help with. women all over the world are affected and this is our solution to help them and to bring awareness to the problems Southeast Asia is facing. We want to help prevent these issues and to show that women can stand together and try to stop these things from happening.