The Killers, MTV, and UNICEF Collaborate on Anti- Sex Trafficking Video

// video added July 20, 2009 // 4 comments //
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Following Radiohead's collaboration with MTV Exit ("End Exploitation and Trafficking") last year, the Killers have provided their song "Goodnight, Travel Well" as a soundtrack to a new human trafficking PSA.

The video is currently being broadcast on MTV networks around the world, with the potential to reach over 500 million people. It was created to raise awareness about and help prevent sex trafficking, which is a problem much more common than most people realize.

More than 1.2 million children are being trafficked each year and nearly 80 per cent of all trafficking is for sexual exploitation, and the most at risk are girls. There is almost no country in the world that isn't affected by sex trafficking in some way.

The powerful video was directed by David Slade ("Hard Candy") and provides insight into the realities of trafficking.

More information is available from UNICEF:

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/uk_50248.html

Last year's MTV EXIT video with Radiohead's "All I Need," which focused on child labor, can be seen here:

http://current.com/items/88926265_new-radiohead-video-against-human-trafficking....
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4 comments // The Killers, MTV, and UNICEF Collaborate on Anti- Sex Trafficking Video // Video

  • cougarlove
  • outtheinside
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      outtheinside  

    • i would update those stats about human trafficking. i've been reading lately that the sex trade is down but the slave/work trade is up in terms of percentage of overall human traffic use. it seems the recession across the world has changed the human traffic stats to include many more male abductions (in terms of year over year percent increase - somewhere around 35%) than female (obviously down year over year) due to human use in labor versus sex. i believe i read this in the economist and will post the article when i find it. i have no doubt of the extent of the problem in human trafficking, but i'd like people to be aware of the other problem that has been relatively new and less documented - forced labor.

    • 7 months ago
  • dani77
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      dani77  
    • outtheinside:

      I got the stats from UNICEF's press release for the video, but they might very well be wrong now. As for forced labor, the Radiohead video last year with MTV Exit focused more on that part of human trafficking.

    • 7 months ago
  • gem7007
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