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Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.40,0:00:22.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, right now the statistics say there's between
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.13,0:00:24.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,10 to 20 million slaves in the world and it's higher
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.40,0:00:27.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than it's ever been in the history of time
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.98,0:00:32.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so I think people have and owe themselves that
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.17,0:00:34.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,responsibility to pay attention to what's happening
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.91,0:00:38.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to realize that, unfortunately, it is happening in your own back yard.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.81,0:00:42.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's so difficult how...should we catch the mouth of the snake or
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.95,0:00:47.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the middle part or the tail, you know? So where to begin and how to begin.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.29,0:00:52.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you go to these villages it's completely absent of two generations; it's absent of the teenage
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.69,0:00:55.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,population and then the young adult population.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.99,0:01:00.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the reason being is because most of those individuals
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.56,0:01:01.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are in the big city working in the sex trade.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.100,0:01:05.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It hurts me badly, in my heart, to know it's happening
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.77,0:01:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the centre of the city and no one looks at it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.00,0:01:11.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We just pass by. We're used to passing by.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.61,0:01:16.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ok? And that's the cult that I see the world going, we just pass by.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.45,0:01:19.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyone has a time and place to when they're going
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.52,0:01:21.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be ready to hear these types of issues happening.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.75,0:01:24.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I feel like the more empowered you are, the more you aware are,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.42,0:02:09.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more likely you are to make a lasting solution happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.60,0:02:12.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kamathipura is the red light area of Mumbai.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.67,0:02:17.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this area there are many prostitutes who work with diseases
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.85,0:02:24.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so to create the diseases the red light preferred to brothels
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.05,0:02:27.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where are the diseases that put red light
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.75,0:02:31.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so they still exist. We do consider sex as work.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.52,0:02:34.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We think, because of poverty, all women can be pushed
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.09,0:02:42.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to these kind of activities. A lot of women from Nepal or West Bengal or from the south of India
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.40,0:02:51.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they come and they are forced by the mafias and the {\u1}{\u1}{\u0}_{\u0} by the demand
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.07,0:02:57.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because they come from village, they don't have food where they live
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.18,0:03:02.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so they have no choice to work where they are
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.68,0:03:08.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after they abandon their village, their family will not accept them.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.32,0:03:11.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The proper people, the pimps, the traffickers control the women, you see,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.74,0:03:15.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in such a way that...and everyone is party to that crime, you see,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.23,0:03:20.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the police is party to the crime; they're supported by the politicians, the criminals, the mafia and the {\u1}{\u1}{\u0}{\u0}
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.07,0:03:25.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is all hand in glove, you see, and what to do?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.04,0:03:28.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we thought of hitting the police first, you see.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.08,0:03:31.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because, in spite of all of the pollution within that crime, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.32,0:03:35.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they work within the...some framework they were working, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.40,0:03:41.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of so-called "rule of law". We involved an active Human Rights Commission
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.24,0:03:43.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then we somehow tried to pursue the whole thing and tried
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.93,0:03:47.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to say whatever was happening was going against the women only.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.50,0:03:53.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The women are not criminals, they're not accused; they're victims themselves, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.27,0:03:58.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know? And the whole treatment is like treating them as criminals, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.71,0:04:05.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're almost ridiculed. So it was all happening and we hit the police
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.05,0:04:07.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after the police...obviously we hit one point where the whole nexus
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.85,0:04:13.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shakes, you see? Despite all this effort, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.53,0:04:19.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the end of the day we realized the women were still weak, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.12,0:04:23.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They could not break that cycle of slavery, you know, within the red light area.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.06,0:04:27.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's more psychological also, the slavery works more psychologically, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.30,0:04:32.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they would not speak against the brothel people, or those things or anything, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.07,0:04:36.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because there would be no structural changes there, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.49,0:04:40.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were not very judgemental about that whole point that women should not be in prostitution
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.90,0:04:44.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this or that, we have no...not at all that mentality about that
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.96,0:04:49.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the only idea we always had was that the minors should not be forced into prostitution
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.69,0:04:55.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even the major women should not be forced into it, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.48,0:04:58.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the voluntary level they can continue with the trade.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.07,0:05:02.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we realized, you know, some maybe have to hit the bottle (bottom?), people send things on, you see.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.37,0:05:08.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At times it's very admissible also, you know, it looks as if they are in agreement, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.01,0:05:15.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it is not that way. The whole paradigm shift in the world came with
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.32,0:05:22.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the involvement of civil society in that. So in 2005, October or November,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.12,0:05:28.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we involved like 4 or 5000 people in the rescue. It was a major rescue operation.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.70,0:05:31.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The civil society went in. We informed the police, we informed everybody
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.82,0:05:35.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we knew they would not come. We did all the legal exercises, see, that is required
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.44,0:05:38.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then we went in their as a civil net, as the citizens of this country, you see
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.44,0:05:43.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We cannot let it...and that is what I say: something horrible happening
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.61,0:05:47.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then we just walk past. How is that possible, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.15,0:05:50.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we rescued almost 50 girls from that rescue operation:
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.19,0:05:57.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,girls from Nepal, from Bengal, Behad(?), you see? And, we rescued them
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.37,0:06:00.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then we're also fighting a criminal case against the brothel people
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.77,0:06:06.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we are fighting, as you see, we are almost fighting over 150 cases now
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.30,0:06:12.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against almost something like 450 human traffickers.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.65,0:06:17.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're also working on the source area, you know, to prevent human traffic.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.15,0:06:21.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's something that really shocked me; I became really impassioned with
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.01,0:06:26.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,learning about human trafficking and joining the movement
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.89,0:06:39.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to raise awareness about human trafficking about 3 years ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.33,0:06:42.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I came to Thailand with the intention of just learning more about
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.81,0:06:48.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what was happening to women and children so it happened that
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.45,0:06:52.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was reading books and articles and all of these different publications and
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.82,0:06:57.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it only mentioned women and children. So when I finally got to Chiang Mai and
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.25,0:07:01.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I passed the bars where all of our boys worked, I was completely shocked.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.96,0:07:09.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it just was this incomprehensible kind of site because I just hadn't read about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.21,0:07:12.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I got really angry and I said "Well, how come we aren't learning anything
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.90,0:07:16.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the fact that boys are being victimized just as much as the girls are?"
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.41,0:07:19.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the candid response that I kept getting from the community, from NGO workers
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.25,0:07:23.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was "These boys are all gonna get HIV and die so why should we care?"
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.65,0:07:26.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Why waste our resources on these boys?"
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.92,0:07:32.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I just thought that was so unfair that they would be so easily overlooked and so easily ignored.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.39,0:07:38.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the more I talked to the boys, the more they realized that society really didn't care at all about them.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.26,0:07:42.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that was, you know, the push behind behind starting Urban Light,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.38,0:07:45.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was, to 1: provide services to these boys, but to also get the message out
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.40,0:07:52.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that boys should be involved in the language as part of the victims of this horrible, insidious crime
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.98,0:07:59.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's happening all over the world, but what I'm seeing specifically in Chiang Mai and in Thailand.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.80,0:08:03.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One thing that we've really noticed is that the definition and kind of the vision that
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.12,0:08:05.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people have when we talk about trafficking is a little bit distorted.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.76,0:08:09.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can come in so many different forms and in so many different ways.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.52,0:08:13.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the way in which our boys are victims of trafficking is that they are
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.43,0:08:19.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,essentially pushed into the city life by their families so they're not essentially shackled;
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.21,0:08:24.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're not behind bars; they're not, you know, kept inside a room.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.18,0:08:26.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think that's the common misconception that a lot of people carry.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.55,0:08:29.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Essentially they're free to come and go, so are they really in fact victims of trafficking?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.61,0:08:35.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we go back to the definition that if you are under 18 and you're working in the sex trade
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.75,0:08:41.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with these types of vulnerabilities and these types of, you know, push factors
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.70,0:08:45.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then, yes, you are considered a victim so the shackle then becomes
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.70,0:08:50.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the family that have that really high expectation; the shackle becomes
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.93,0:08:56.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the lack of education, the discrimination for a lot of these hill tribe people,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.27,0:09:02.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in particular, our boys, who are mostly Agka(?) which is a hill tribe
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.46,0:09:06.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an ethnic minority, which there is a ton of villages in the northwest part of Thailand.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.38,0:09:09.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One thing which I do not know whether you have been caught with that, I think,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.97,0:09:16.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the aspect of gratitude. Because we have our culture of Buddhism also
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.59,0:09:26.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gives admiration to those who are grateful children to their parents,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.84,0:09:33.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is the very highest merit the children can do to their parents
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.01,0:09:36.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but there are many forms of paid gratitude, you know
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.01,0:09:43.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are taught that parents are the first god, you know.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.65,0:09:50.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You do not go to the table at your parents' place if you do not pay
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.58,0:09:53.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,respect to your own parents at home, because they are the first monk,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.94,0:10:01.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the old days, when the children worked very hard to help,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.70,0:10:08.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do any kind of hard work at home, taking care of them when they get sick
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.91,0:10:11.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, you know, things like that, this is a kind of paying the gratitude
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.88,0:10:16.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a grateful children already. But it was, it is taught them, you know
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.42,0:10:22.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you talk about the first monk, who's {\u1}{\u1}{\u0}{\u0}.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.39,0:09:57.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that is the first. You have to do something for them, to make them happy in that time.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.02,0:10:22.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be like money, when the world of materialism coming in.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.93,0:10:25.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so it's a very hush hush topic; everyone knows what`s going on,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.19,0:10:26.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but no one will really say where the money's coming from
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.56,0:10:33.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that becomes just a big, huge weight on a lot of these boys
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.17,0:10:34.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I'm talking to, because they don't want anyone to know what they're doing
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.54,0:10:39.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they just know that they're doing good because they're providing for their families.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.16,0:10:43.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, in a twisted way, the boys also see them as people that want
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.66,0:10:47.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to help them; they don't see them as, the boys don't see these sex tourists
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.26,0:10:49.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as people that wanna take advantage of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.85,0:10:53.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's a really frustrating part, is that, you know, the boys are
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.59,0:10:58.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so respectful of the men that come here. It's very much a Thai way.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.25,0:11:02.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they'll never talk badly about them. And, you know, I think the Johns,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.04,0:11:42.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to this realization where they say, "You know what, I don't want
Dialogue: 0,0:11:42.74,0:11:43.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a restaurant? In a hotel? At a tour agency?"
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.59,0:11:44.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to do this anymore. I don't care if I'm not sending any money home
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.02,0:11:44.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to my mom; I just don't wanna do this." And that's when we react.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.33,0:11:06.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's when we really go hard and we say, "You know what,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.71,0:11:27.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then let's go on job interviews. Where do you wanna work?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.65,0:11:31.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then let's go on job interviews. Where do you wanna work?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.43,0:11:16.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a huge challenge for us, but we know that at some point, it clicks
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.44,0:11:45.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it really started off with just providing English. Once we started
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.77,0:11:47.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doing that, we realized that there were a ton of other services that
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.61,0:11:50.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were in need as well. We're now providing intensive case management.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.58,0:11:53.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that can include health services, going to the doctor, getting a physical exam,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.61,0:11:58.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,getting tested for HIV, getting STI treatment and testing, getting housing services
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.67,0:12:04.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just different, like, different components in life that
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.16,0:12:07.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,many people take for granted, but for these boys they've never had access to.