Girls Gone Wild: In Red Light District (PSA from Stop the Traffik)
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Source: New York Times
Length: 4:30
Summary: In this Op-Ed Video, Pulitzer-prize winning columnist Nicholas Kristof interviews a survivor of childhood sex trafficking in Manhattan (click on image for video). The woman was forced into prostitution at age 16, and at age 19, she was able to escape her pimp and gain her freedom. In the video, the woman describes how, as an emotionally and economically vulnerable teenager, she was tricked by an older man into a relationship and then forced into prostitution. Her pimp threatened her with violence, and she was sold from one pimp to another, and forced to have sex for money in New York and other cities along the East Coast. The video discusses how pimps recruit their girls and the role of websites in facilitating sex trafficking.
Length: 4:30
Summary: In this Op-Ed Video, Pulitzer-prize winning columnist Nicholas Kristof interviews a survivor of childhood sex trafficking in Manhattan (click on image for video). The woman was forced into prostitution at age 16, and at age 19, she was able to escape her pimp and gain her freedom. In the video, the woman describes how, as an emotionally and economically vulnerable teenager, she was tricked by an older man into a relationship and then forced into prostitution. Her pimp threatened her with violence, and she was sold from one pimp to another, and forced to have sex for money in New York and other cities along the East Coast. The video discusses how pimps recruit their girls and the role of websites in facilitating sex trafficking.
Miss Representation
Source: missrepresentation.org
Length: 88 minutes
Summary: The documentary Miss Representation, by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and aired on. The film explores how the media’s misrepresentations of women have led to the underrepresentation of women in positions of power and influence. As the most persuasive and pervasive force of communication in our culture, media is educating yet another generation that a women's primary value lay in her youth, beauty, and sexuality - and not in her capacity to lead, making it difficult for women to obtain leadership positions and for girls to reach their full potential. The film accumulates startling facts and statistics that leave audiences shaken, armed with a new perspective, and asking the question, "What can we do?"
Length: 88 minutes
Summary: The documentary Miss Representation, by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and aired on. The film explores how the media’s misrepresentations of women have led to the underrepresentation of women in positions of power and influence. As the most persuasive and pervasive force of communication in our culture, media is educating yet another generation that a women's primary value lay in her youth, beauty, and sexuality - and not in her capacity to lead, making it difficult for women to obtain leadership positions and for girls to reach their full potential. The film accumulates startling facts and statistics that leave audiences shaken, armed with a new perspective, and asking the question, "What can we do?"
