THE JAMMED TRUE STORIES OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING BLOG

The aim of this blog is to uncover and present TRUE STORIES of Human Trafficking and debt bondage in all its forms. We are seeking stories of victims "jammed" in slavery, of perpetrators of this crime, stories of efforts to help victims; of individuals moving to change policy, and stories of misguided efforts to help that have done further damage … in the hope that the telling of these personal stories will highlight the reality and complexity of this heinous practice, and shed light on the need for action on many fronts. Our vision is to finance this project through sponsorship and donations so that we can make the films freely available to everyone, everywhere for advocacy, campaigning, education and calls to action.

Following on from the feature film THE JAMMED we intend to select a series of stories from those posted on this blog, and produce a dramatised series of short stories

THE JAMMED is a feature film inspired by court transcripts about sex slavery and deportation in Australia - (www.thejammed.com). The number of women and children trafficked into sexual servitude (slavery) and debt bondage is impossible to quantify, but it is estimated that between 700,000 to 4 million people are trafficked around the world annually for sexual exploitation.

This is a call for your stories.

Monday, September 15, 2008

Survivor's Story

For almost a year, 20-year-old Katya, a university student from Ukraine was forced to work strip clubs in Detroit by two men she thought were taking her to a waitressing job in America. Alex Maksimenko’s and Michail Aronov imprisoned her and 15 other women in separate apartments around Detroit. Katya: "We couldn't kept any money in our apartment because the guys has keys. They have, I believe, there was listen us in the apartment. And we could not hide nothing. They're say, if they find at least a dollar, it will be something bad happen to us." The 12 hour shifts yielded up to $1000 a night but the women saw none of it.
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Anonymous said...

A bunch of us survivors have formed an online international network for friendship, support and activism. There's no leader, one woman, one vote. We vote on the issues we choose to address

www.survivorsconnect.wordpress.com
www.survivorsconnect.groupsite.
www.secretlifeofamanhattancallgirl.wordpress.com

February 11, 2012 at 10:34 PM

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