Hiding In Plain Sight: How Human Trafficking Takes Place Right Under Our Noses
Slavery. When we hear that word, we often think of it as something in the distant past. But an underground network of human cargo thrives right under our noses.
Today, we hear the first in a special series on human trafficking. We'll start small, as police bust up a prostitution ring in a small Boston town. It's a story that could have happened anywhere. Here in Seattle, police busted a similar ring two years ago.
Boston investigative reporter Phillip Martin wanted to go deeper than the breaking stories of busts and find out what's beneath the surface. As he began unraveling the story, it took him all over the globe. Over the next couple of weeks, we'll follow him from Boston to Thailand to China and back, and over that period we'll discover that these stories of prostitution rings are part of a much larger story. It's a story that links two different kinds of men: the western man who believes Asian women are more willing to please, and the kidnapper who transports young girls across Southeast Asian borders.
Full list of stories from KUOW Presents, June 3:
- BBC - Protests in Turkey
- Seattle Super Sonics World Championship (rebroadcast)
- More Than A Tree - Bris Trees
- Jourdan Keith's "Traveling Seeds"
- British Mosque Invites English Anti-Muslim Group To Tea
- BBC - Comparing Syria and Libyan Revolutions
- Taking Killer Whale Research To The Classroom
- Underground Trade Part 1: Hiding in Plain Sight
- Writer's Almanac
- Actor Kyle MacLachlan Talks About His Work In TV And Film
- Are You Being Watched?
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