Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Poster campaign to help stop human trafficking


From the Queens Chronicle:

Human trafficking is described as the recruiting, transporting, selling or buying of people for the purpose of various forms of sexual or labor exploitation.

The city will display posters in the five boroughs on bus shelters through June 13. A new anti-trafficking website can be found at nyc.gov to provide more information.

Deputy Mayor Carol Robles-Roman said human trafficking is one of the fastest growing criminal enterprises in the world, but that the average person doesn’t know how to recognize this form of servitude.

Although human trafficking can be difficult to recognize because it is often kept out of sight, some examples are prostitutes, domestic workers, factory workers, landscapers, restaurant workers and those working in nail salons or janitorial jobs. Victims can be American-born or immigrants.

In Queens, Asian women are especially lured here with the promise of a job or a better way of life. Instead, they end up enslaved, owing their traffickers money, without documentation and kept as prostitutes in brothels, illegal massage parlors or on the street.

Human rights groups in Queens applauded the mayor’s campaign, saying that human trafficking has gone on for too long.

Ann Jawin, founder and chairwoman of the Center for the Women of New York, was elated about the mayor’s campaign. “That’s wonderful,” Jawin said. “It comes at a good time.”

Since February, Jawin’s group has been waging its own battle against sex trafficking by asking Queens newspaper owners to pledge not to accept ads for services that are clearly a front for prostitution.

So far, only Queens Chronicle Publisher Mark Weidler has signed, earning him a Good Guys award from the CWNY on Saturday. He says the Chronicle does not run such ads and will not in the future.

Jawin is continuing to reach out to other Queens papers and if they don’t respond positively, she has vowed to get businesses and libraries to stop distributing them.

14 comments:

Tribune Mike said...

Oh please! Stop already. Who's paying attention to this nonsense. Right Gary?

Anonymous said...

"Jawin is continuing to reach out to other Queens papers and if they don’t respond positively, she has vowed to get businesses and libraries to stop distributing them."

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Good one!

D. Truth said...

Don't expect Queens DA Richard Brown to help. He supports and praises the whore mongering Queens Tribune and his buddies Schenkler and Ackerman. What a joke!

georgetheatheist said...

Why don't the weeklies run a sting operation? Except the brothel's $ and then follow the money trails.

Anonymous said...

Why don't the weeklies run a sting operation?

Don't hold your breath! I would love to know how much $$$ the Trib has accumulated from running ads that they know might be part of this problem. As someone else pointed out, DA Brown is dirty...like doody.

A Whore said...

I got my job through the Queens Tribune!

Anonymous said...

The 109th precinct would be astronomically angry if human trafficking was put to a halt. Cmon now it's where they get most of their bribes from (both monetary and sexual).

Anonymous said...

Ann Jawin is a joke.

Ivana Sukya said...

Someone please. What's wrong with the Queens Tribune?

Anonymous said...

What about Gary Ackerman's buddies and their attempts to open sex businesses in Asia? Something doesn't smell kosher. By the way, same buddies who own/manage the Trib. Heh Heh Heh Gary's going down in November...at last!

Anonymous said...

Maspeth mom says...

I wonder how many women who work inthe 10 nail salons on Grand Avenue are victims of human trafficking?

Anonymous said...

Is Jawin all talk and no action? That's what I think. Too bad. This serious issue in Queens really needs to be more out in the open. I applaud the Queens Chronicle as the only local paper addressing the issue head on.

Anonymous said...

Jawin...that old battle axe...has an office in boro hall.

Do you really think she would do something usefully proactive like picketing the Queens Tribune for running Nussbaum's whore ads?

Nah...she'd be evicted by Helen Marshall the next day.

Another phony organization sucking up taxpayers' dollars.

Ann lost her Fort Totten franchise didn't she?

I wonder why!

Are you reading this Ms. Jawin?

Anonymous said...

Jawin...that old battle axe...has an office in boro hall.
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O! Thats different. Never mind!