Women in the World: Taken-Trafficking

This past June, I was sitting in my room reading a magazine when my dad walks in looking quite serious and lays a dvd on my bed and says "You need to watch this as soon as you get a chance". Before I even looked at the dvd I was perplexed. Rarely does my dad watch movies, let alone feel the need to tell me that I really need to see them because, the romantic comedies I enjoy aren't exactly his cup of tea. I then looked at the cover and saw "I don't know who you are, but if you don't let my daughter go I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you"-TAKEN. The back read...

"Seventeen year-old Kim is the pride and joy of her father Bryan Mills. Bryan is a retired agent who left the Secret Service to be near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim manages to convince her reluctant father to allow her to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When the girls arrive in Paris they share a cab with a stranger named Peter, and Amanda lets it slip that they are alone in Paris. Using this information an Albanese gang of human traffickers kidnaps the girls. Kim barely has time to call her father and give him information. Her father gets to speak briefly to one of the kidnappers and he promises to kill the kidnappers if they do not let his daughter go free. The kidnapper wishes him "good luck," so Bryan Mills travels to Paris to search for his daughter and her friend"

I watched it the next morning and was blown away by the plot, acting and ending especially. I had been familiar with the Global Sex Trafficking and what an epidemic it's become. I've even watched a documentary on it a year ago. But there was something that intrigued me more by this film. I think it was how disgustingly easy the process of capturing and enslaving young women was.

Women in the Worlds' section on Global Sex Trafficking caught my interest the most (partly because of my progressed interest after seeing the movie). I specifically looked at France, seeing it listed as a destination country and then looked at Russia which is both a source and destination. Interestingly enough, Europe is listed as having the highest prosecutions and convictions. The entire process is both gut wrenching and depressing. The saddest part to me was to skim through the book and see how well these countries have been and are doing in so many other areas and then this topic arrives. That is both shocking and terrifying because that means the actions are that much easier to hide and there for easier to get away with.