TedTalk: Sunitha Krishnan Fights Sex Slavery

This literally gave me goosebumps. So unbelievably eye-opening. Please do yourself a favour and have a watch.
"It's time to break our culture of silence... and open our minds and hearts."


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  1. Zain4 June 2012 at 02:58

    Heard this talk a while back. Crazy how little is done for the security of these children let alone how they're treated afterwards. Sunitha is definitely an exemplary human being, showing what it truly means to stand in the face of evil and fight it with action and compassion.

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  2. Jovana4 June 2012 at 11:25

    It truly is amazing how unbelievably ignorant people, including myself can be on issues such as sex slavery. Before I started my undergrad I was under the impression (and my impression was based on hollywood movies) that sex trafficking and slavery was an industry that young woman were foolish enough to find themselves in. Never once did I think they could not leave, never once did I think young children could be involved. It was not until I started university, and dove into the literature on issues like environmental racism, poverty, starvation, slavery, and many, many, many other important and prevalent issues did I realize that conceptualizing such issues, one must expand their mind and think outside the box. One of the most prevalent things that Sunitha addresses is the way society functions around selling humans. Humans are sold for sex slavery, but also for adoption. Is this truly ethical? The treatment of children waiting to be adopted differs astronomically from those sold into the sex slave industry, but as human beings, do we have the right to commercialize, monetize, and place value on a human beings life? I had never really looked at adoption in this way before, but it an interesting concept to consider. Is the monetary aspect of adoption depleting the intrinsic value of the deed?
    The second concept I wanted to discuss is her take on civil society. How these women and children are treated after they escape this world is disheartening and unbelievable. Society stigmatizes their experience and casts them as 'dirty, used, broken' and so on. The ignorant will believe that they put themselves in this situation, while the overly empathetic may believe that their lives are ruined forever and no help will ever be good enough. Sunitha is an exceptional woman and the work that she is doing is admirable and necessary; she is giving these voiceless humans a voice and eliminating the word victim from their vocabulary. She is helping them use their courage to create a sense of power and eliminating the notion of fear.

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