Humans NOT For Sale

1. Humans NOT For Sale Human Trafficking In China By: Candace Maria, Marjorie Teocson and Nicole Woolsey

2. Causes of Human Trafficking • Gender Imbalance • Boys outnumber girls • Needed for brides and females arise • One-Child Policy • Devised to prevent the growing number of Communists throughout China. • Intended to limit the risk of communist threat, instead of limit the number of members within a family. • Families abided by this law to avoid charges

3. Effects of Human Trafficking • Prostitution • Because of the One Child Policy children are either aborted, abandoned, or sold. • Many babies are sold into prostitution when they get older. • Baby Trafficking • Southwest China there is a street called Chicken Street where it is used to sell babies ranging in different prices. • Young baby girls are sold for $25 and boys could be sold for the double the price. • Birth mothers see this as their lively hood. • Babies are sold to pay off debt.

4. Why should you care? • Luo Yan Qua tells about how his wife was beaten and how their daughter was feeling her mother’s belly in hopes of becoming a big sister. • Due to the One Child Policy Xiao Ai Ying had to abort her 7 month fetus because she already has a 10 year old daughter.

5. Why should you care? • A father talks about the quest to find his son and will do anything to get him back. • A mother worries about her child that was taken from her when he was just 5 ½ years old.

6. Organizations What YOU can do What THEY do • Global network of organizations working together to try and eliminate the trafficking of children for sexual purposes. • Help victims with four programs • Ending gendercide • Educating abandoned girls • Rescuing trafficked children • Defending mothers • Visit their website at www. allgirlsallowed.org • Become a monthly donor • Start a school chapter • Email vicky@allgirlsallowed.org for more ways to volunteer

7. Organizations What YOU can do What THEY do • Global network of organizations working together to try and eliminate the trafficking of children for sexual purposes.

8. Organizations What YOU can do What THEY do • Global network of organizations working together to try and eliminate the trafficking of children for sexual purposes. • Help victims with four programs • Ending gendercide • Educating abandoned girls • Rescuing trafficked children • Defending mothers • Visit their website at www. allgirlsallowed.org • or • Email vicky@allgirlsallowed.org for more ways to volunteer

9. Organizations (cont’d) • National Anti-Trafficking Council • “Elimination of Trafficking, Zero Tolerance Plan”

10. Get Involved • Through All Girls Allowed, supporters are able to sign a petition.

11. Become an advocate for non-profit organizations Donate funds or other requested items to organizations that help victims of human trafficking Get Involved

12. Conclusion • Think about your life now and how different it would be if you were one of these children being abducted and sold. • The world isn’t a market and we are not for sale. • How would you feel being treated like a product instead of a human?

13. Works Cited • All Girls Allowed Symbol http://s3.amazonaws.com/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-01-24/FFDhbFoFkpbyuHuFpvGgjDyknolyqotvaAupEcplvtcwqqCuGdxezeAikBfk/aga-logo-468x110.png.scaled500.png?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJFZAE65UYRT34AOQ&Expires=1305148943&Signature=4Ji%2FIvJh2YAvpDMbuuW%2Ff%2FEEsHk%3D • ECPAT http://www.canee.net/ecpat • Salvation Army http://anewscafe.com/2010/11/19/salvation-army-rings-the-bell-to-helps-those-in-need/ • UNICEF http://logo-collections.blogspot.com/2011/04/download-logo-unicef-united-nations.html