Stop Child Trafficking with Elisha Krauss on the Next DivaTalkRadio 4-20-11

As you know, the Divas are active in their contributions to a variety of charities each year. Because of this, Kelli Claypool created the Mission 500 Project to assist in the awareness and donations.  One of the organizations elected for 2011 is Stop Child Trafficking Now (http://SCTNow.org)

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 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.

Trafficking children into the sex industry is done because there is a demand. Predators seek out vulnerable victims and lure them under false pretenses into situations they cannot escape from. No matter the reason, children have become sexual commodities to be bought and sold for the pleasure of exploiters. These children are scarred for life and need help – our help.

Stop Child Trafficking Now believes strongly that to eliminate this heinous crime the demand for children must end. That’s why SCTNow seeks to destroy the source. SCTNow believes that by putting predators behind bars we can Stop Child Trafficking Now.

Here are a few statistics:

• Child/Human Trafficking is one of the fastest growing crimes in the world. Child/ human trafficking is the world’s second largest criminal enterprise, after drugs. U.S. State Department
• The global market of child trafficking at over $12 billion a year with over 1.2 million child victims. UNICEF
• As many as 2.8 million children run away each year in the US. Within 48 hours of hitting the streets, one-third of these children are lured or recruited into the underground world of prostitution and pornography. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
• The average age of entry for children victimized by the sex trade industry is 12 years. U.S. Department of Justice
• Approximately 80% of human trafficking victims are women and girls and up to 50% are minors.  U.S. State Department
• The average number of victims for non-incestuous pedophiles who molest girls is 20, for pedophiles who prefer boys 100! The Association For the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA)
• 300,000 children in the U.S. are at risk every year for commercial sexual exploitation. U.S. Department of Justice
• 600,000 – 800,000 people are bought and sold across international borders each year; 50% are children, most are female. The majority of these victims are forced into the commercial sex trade.  U.S. Department of State, 2004, Trafficking in Persons Report, Washington, D.C.
  

On Wednesday, April 20th, we are honored to have Elisha Krauss join us on DivaTalkRadio to share more information about this hideous crime.

Elisha Krauss is the Senior producer of a national radio show with 15 million listeners a week. She has been in media for 7 years and during that time has planned charity concerts, speaking events and coordinated broadcasts from the 2008 campaign trail including but not limited to the DNC and RNC.

Elisha is also a strong advocate for SCTNow and has been a volunteer with the organization since it was formed. She and her husband Eric have a passion for making sure Americans are alerted to this issue and get involved to stop the supply and demand of child trafficking.

Currently Elisha is the co-chair of the SCTNow NYC Event & PR Committee.

Be sure to join us during the live show. Phone lines and the interactive chat room will be open during the LIVE show. Replays will be available within 45 minutes of the show airing.  Invite your friends, family, and colleagues.

When: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. EST

Where: http://DivaTalkRadio.com/live

We’ll see YOU at the show!