A Dance For Bethany - A Compelling Story About human Trafficing…

Category: MOVIES THAT INSPIRE

Genre: Drama

Retail Price: R149.99

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HUMAN TRAFFICKING

is the exploitation of human beings by selling them for sex, bonded labour or domestic servitude.  HUMAN TRAFFICKING is the currently the fastest growing money making scheme in the world - you can only sell drugs and guns once, but a human being you can keep on selling for years on end! Human-trafficking in South Africa is a very serious trans-national and global crime that takes place in and around borders of the country. South Africa has become a source, destination and transit country for human-trafficking and related crimes as it is perceived in and outside the continent as the economic giant in Africa. Governments, businesses, NGOs and citizens everywhere have a responsibility to work together to address this modern-day slavery. 

SPEARHEAD OF THE CAMPAIGN- "A Dance For Bethany"A Romantic Drama film that aims to fight Human Trafficking  "A DANCE FOR BETHANY" tells an inspiring and compelling story of how one woman risks everything to help a sex trafficked victim out of the world of slavery and into a world with a future and a hope of fulfilling a childhood dream of becoming a real dancer. The factual fictional story based on true events and the reality of the sex trafficking market in today's US,  The fictional Bethany Stevenson is iconic as a 12 year old runaway forced into sex slavery as a stripper / prostitute. The film chronicles the struggle of reporter Abbey Fisher to free her own self from the bondage of a politically correct and comfortable lifestyle into her passion. After meeting and befriending young Bethany, Abbey immediately meets opposition from local club owners who don't want to lose one of their prime moneymakers. Abbey is quickly challenged when she learns that she is caught in a tightly woven web of politics, morals and crime and becomes a problem to those who want to profit from sexually exploiting young women. She takes on her husband and his colleague, Senator George Abbot and their attempt at creating legislation that inadvertently profits by the retailing of sex in the US thereby legitimizing it. With the help of Sarah, Abbey's best friend and Co-worker and Eric Vandevere, local dance instructor, Bethany receives support and courage to make a new life for herself and in the process publicly exposes the dehumanization of the sex trade in her city through the use of the media. In the end, the Reporter, Abbey Fisher is the one who finds true redemption as she reaches outside herself to help another. "This is a challenging film that will motivate you to move out of your comfort zone, engage to get involved in this modern-day slavery that entrapped millions globally and help them to be set free."   

FACTS

Human trafficking is the process of recruitment and transportation of people by means of deception or force for the purpose of exploitation. This exploitation most commonly involves forced prostitution, but victims are also trafficked for bonded labour and domestic servitude. Victims are usually women or children, but can include men. An estimated $9.5 billion is generated in annual revenue from all trafficking activities, with at least $4 billion attributed to the worldwide brothel industry. (Ibid.) An estimated 2 million children, the majority of them girls, are sexually exploited in the multibillion dollar commercial sex industry. (UNICEF). An estimated 1.2 million children are trafficked each year. (UNICEF) South Africais a human trafficking hotspot. The five-week school break during the 2010 Fifa World Cup could lead to hundreds of children being recruited into child prostitution rings and result in thousands more being trafficked because South Africais a source, destination and transit country for trafficked victims.  This is because of our porous borders, lack of appropriate legislation and corruption in the law enforcement system. 

WE All AGREE

There are a number of organizations that agree that the objectives in fighting this cruel and harsh crime are:

Creating Awareness and implementing prevention programs. Creating a functional network nationally, Trans- nationally and globally. Combat this crime on street level.Establish "Human-trafficking" as a crime through the constitutional court.Raising funding and creating structures in order to combat existing cases.