"Traffic: An MTV EXIT Special Screening"

Mar 10 2008 - 6:30pm
Mar 10 2008 - 8:30pm

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SID-Washington is proud to co-sponsor together with USAID and MTV for this exclusive screening of Traffic. 

To be followed by a discussion featuring Thomas Ehr, Executive Director, MTV Europe Foundation and Simon Goff, Campaign Director, MTV EXIT

Traffic is a unique and powerful program presented by Lucy Liu that addresses the issue of human trafficking in the Asia-Pacific.  Told through the stories of real people, the show features Anna, trafficked from the Philippines and forced into prostitution; Eka, an Indonesian woman, trafficked into forced domestic servitude in Singapore; and Min Aung, from Burma, trafficked to Thailand and imprisoned for 2 years in a factory.  Their harrowing stories are told alongside other people in the trafficking chain, including a trafficker, a young man who pays for sex, an anti-trafficking police officer, and a woman who runs a shelter for abused victims.

Traffic forms part of the MTV EXIT Campaign (End Exploitation and Trafficking), an initiative designed to raise awareness and increase prevention of human trafficking.  The campaign in Asia and the Pacific is split into two geographic regions: Asia-Pacific and South-Asia, with innovative programming, online elements, and on-the-ground events being produced for each.

MTV EXIT is the result of a Global Development Alliance between USAID and the MTV Europe Foundation.  The documentary is part of a three-pronged effort to empower young people with safe migration advice and other guidance for youth at risk of being trafficked.

Please RSVP: gda@usaid.gov 

Location
The John Hopkins University SAIS-Kenney Auditorium
1740 Massachusetts Avenue
Washington, DC
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