Human Trafficking Is Part of the Story of Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women – Huffington Post
The distraught woman paced the streets, clearly in search of someone. She broke down in tears when police approached. “I’m looking for my daughter. She’s being pimped out by a boy who’s in a gang, and I need to find her.”
In no time, a sting was set up. The trafficker was arrested and the girl restored to her family on a First Nations Reserve in northern Alberta. She was one of the lucky ones. Many more victims end up on Canada’s too-long list of missing and murdered women.
Aboriginal women and girls are at higher risk of becoming victims of human trafficking in Canada than non-aboriginals, according to Canada’s National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking. This selling and abusing of people — a modern-day form of slavery — is one of the pieces that make up the complex puzzle of Canada’s more than 1,100 missing and murdered aboriginal women. And another reason we must take action.
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