Millions of girls and boys are trafficked into places where they are exploited, sexually violated, and abused on a daily basis. This is preventable. Watch the film Meena about a girl who was kidnapped and held at a brothel for 12 years.
The volume of stories in the media today speak to the state of young women in the world: hundreds of Nigerian girls kidnapped, girls in India being raped and hung from trees, a small child dying a violent death in a bathtub in New York City.