#MyFreedomDay – Don’t Buy A Kid – End Child Sex Slavery



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The RINJ Foundation “Don’t Buy A Kid” campaign is in its fifth year.  This March 14, 2017, #MYFreedomDay, RINJ reminds our sisters around the world that  human sex trafficking is the most common form of modern-day slavery. Estimates place the number of its domestic and international victims in the millions, mostly females and children enslaved in the commercial sex industry for little or no money.

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Child Sex Slavery / Sex Trafficking — whether within a country or across national borders — violates basic human rights, including the rights to bodily integrity, equality, dignity, health, security, and freedom from violence and torture.
The RINJ Foundation (@rapeisnojoke) considers sex trafficking a crime against humanity, a form of sex discrimination, a human rights violation, and another demonstration of the misogyny that exists in this world.

The Abc’s are three ‘P’s.

    1. Prevention of trafficking in persons
    2. Protection of victims of human slavery
    3. Prosecution of trafficking offenders

When FBI agents and police officers fanned out across the U.S.A.  in a week long June 2014 effort to rescue child sex trafficking victims, they pulled minors as young as 11 from hotel rooms, truck stops and homes.

Among the 168 juveniles recovered was a population that child welfare advocates say especially concerns them: children who were never reported missing in the first place.
Not only is human sex slavery a serious crime but it is big crime business.

It is in fact

  1. the fastest-growing business of organized crime and
  2. the third-largest criminal enterprise in the world.

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We Have Many Ways To Jail You Who Buy a Kid

When you buy a kid you are most often if not in every case supporting a portion of the child sex slavery crime syndicates. In some countries that means you get the death penalty. We can hang you there for buying a kid. In other countries it is life in prison. We women say throw away the key and we’ll study your sick brain for the rest of your life.

Don’t buy a kid!

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International Laws Are Tried and True

The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, adopted by General Assembly resolution 55/25 of 15 November 2000, is the main international instrument in the fight against transnational organized crime.

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The Convention is further supplemented by three Protocols, which target specific areas and manifestations of organized crime:

  • the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children;
  • the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air; and
  • the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, their Parts and Components and Ammunition. Countries must become parties to the Convention itself before they can become parties to any of the Protocols.

The Convention signifies the recognition by Member States of the seriousness of the problems posed by it, as well as the need to foster and enhance close international cooperation in order to tackle those problems.

States that ratify this instrument commit themselves to taking a series of measures against transnational organized crime, including the creation of domestic criminal offences (participation in an organized criminal group, money laundering, corruption and obstruction of justice); the adoption of new and sweeping frameworks for extradition, mutual legal assistance and law enforcement cooperation; and the promotion of  training and technical assistance for building or upgrading the necessary capacity of national authorities.
The Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, was adopted by U.N. General Assembly Resolution 55/25.

It entered into force on 25 December 2003. It is the first global legally binding instrument with an agreed definition on trafficking in persons.

The intention behind this definition is to facilitate convergence in national approaches with regard to the establishment of domestic criminal offences that would support efficient international cooperation in investigating and prosecuting trafficking in persons cases.

An additional objective of the Protocol is to protect and assist the victims of trafficking in persons with full respect for their human rights.
The Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, adopted by General Assembly resolution 55/25, entered into force on 28 January 2004. It deals with the growing problem of organized criminal groups who smuggle migrants, often at high risk to the migrants and at great profit for the offenders.

A major achievement of the Protocol was that, for the first time in a global international instrument, a definition of smuggling of migrants was developed and agreed upon. The Protocol aims at preventing and combating the smuggling of migrants, as well as promoting cooperation among States parties, while protecting the rights of smuggled migrants and preventing the worst forms of their exploitation which often characterize the smuggling process.
The Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, their Parts and Components and Ammunition was adopted by General Assembly resolution 55/255 of 31 May 2001. It entered into force on 3 July 2005. The objective of the Protocol, which is the first legally binding instrument on small arms that has been adopted at the global level, is to promote, facilitate and strengthen cooperation among States Parties in order to prevent, combat and eradicate the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, their parts and components and ammunition.

By ratifying the Protocol, States make a commitment to adopt a series of crime-control measures and implement in their domestic legal order three sets of normative provisions: the first one relates to the establishment of criminal offences related to illegal manufacturing of, and trafficking in, firearms on the basis of the Protocol requirements and definitions; the second to a system of government authorizations or licensing intending to ensure legitimate manufacturing of, and trafficking in, firearms; and the third one to the marking and tracing of firearms.

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