Stop Child Trafficking Now
(SCTNow)
Upcoming Walks near you!
Raleigh,
NC
Peace College-Delway Street
Sunday, September 25, 2pm
Chapel
Hill, NC
Forest Theatre on UNC campus
Saturday,
September 24, 10am
"Stilettos Run" 2009: Runners wearing stilettos make their
way along the 80 meters course during the Stilettos Run in New York. (AP
Photo/Tina Fineberg)
Stop Child Trafficking now broke the Guinness Book of world records for
an event of its kind on September 27, 2009 in New York City as men and
women (318 women, 3 men) from all over the tri-state area participated
in a "Stilettos Run" to end child trafficking. The event was the first
part of the morning's events to help end child trafficking.
Child Trafficking is the recruitment, smuggling, transporting,
harboring, buying or selling of a child through force, threats, fraud,
deception, or coercion for the purposes of exploitation, prostitution,
pornography, migrant work, sweat shops, domestic servitude, forced
labor, bondage, peonage or involuntary servitude.
Child trafficking is one of the fastest growing crimes in the world.
UNICEF values the global market of child trafficking at over $12 billion
a year with over 1.2 million child victims. Men, women and children are
all victims but, the most vulnerable groups, those with limited rights
or protections, have been the hardest hit… especially children.
However, people are aware that the United States in one of the leading
countries involved in this heinous crime. To bring this issue incredibly
close to home, the Charlotte FBI satellite office ranks North Carolina
as a Top-10 state for human trafficking in the United States.
What you can do about it:
Sign up to WALK in 2010 or donate funds at www.sctnow.org.
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