Hillary’s 1999 Speech on Modern Slavery Inspired Me to Expose a Trafficking Ring

[Her Sister]

http://bluenationreview.com/hillarys-groundbreaking-1999-speech-on-modern-slavery/

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It was my first time meeting Hillary and she was nothing but gracious and expressed her gratitude for my work in organizing the event.

I was deeply inspired. I had never heard such a detailed speech about human trafficking before. I was struck by her humanity and compassion for the victims, especially in her description of a 12-year-old who had been sold into sexual slavery and consequently was dying of AIDS.

Hillary’s Istanbul speech led me to expose a human trafficking ring that was operating in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The story I broke on these crimes in 2001 later inspired a major motion picture titled The Whistleblower, starring Rachel Weiss and Vanessa Redgrave.

I doubt I would have understood the gravity of the crimes that took place in Bosnia if not for hearing Hillary speak. For a number of years, this issue was simply passed off as inevitable prostitution, but her speech disabused anyone of that notion. I look back at it as a turning point in a coordinated global response to human trafficking.

[yallerdawg]

1. Hillary has profoundly changed lives...and we want more!

[Her Sister]

2. Wonderful!!!

Yes she has! Thanks for the post!!

[yallerdawg]

3. Thank you for YOUR posts!

You're helping to make DU a better place!!!

[Her Sister]

4. WoW!!! Thanks!

There is a lot to be said when your candidate's career and life has been long, varied, admirable, interesting, amazing,

but unfortunately much maligned and impugned on...

and when she continues to BE and Act Beautifully! Proud of HER. Proud to be on HER Camp. Proud to be in HER GROUP!