Hillary’s 1999 Speech on Modern Slavery Inspired Me to Expose a Trafficking Ring [View all]

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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.