Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore Fight Human Trafficking
CNN reports that Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher will be interviewed tonight on “Piers Morgan Tonight” on CNN/US at 9 p.m. ET. “There’s between 100,000 and 300,000 child sex slaves in the United States today,” Ashton Kutcher tells CNN’s Piers Morgan. “If you don’t do something to stop that – that’s when there’s something wrong with you.” The husband-and-wife team launched The Demi & Ashton Foundation (DNA) after a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border in January. The DNA Foundation stands for the fundamental right to freedom for every person. Here is what the website says about the foundation:
“Believing that freedom is a basic human right, Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher founded The Demi and Ashton Foundation (DNA) to raise awareness about child sex slavery, change the cultural stereotypes that facilitate this horrific problem, and rehabilitate innocent victims. DNA is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization.
More people are slaves today than ever before and the numbers are soaring. Men, women and children are enslaved for many purposes including sex, pornography, forced labor and indentured servitude. Among slaves, children are the most vulnerable and their rights are the least recognized. The global sex slavery market generates $32 billion in profits annually. Two million children are subjected to prostitution in the global commercial sex trade. In just the United States, between 100,000 and 300,000 children are enslaved and sold for sex. The sex slavery industry has become an increasingly important revenue source for organized crime because each young girl can earn between $150,000 and $200,000 each year for her pimp.
DNA hopes to help abolish modern day slavery, deter perpetrators and free the many innocent and exploited victims. We are committed to forcing sex slavery out of the shadows and into the spotlight.
Freedom is a basic human right and slavery is one of the greatest threats to that freedom. No one has the right to enslave another person. Freedom – It’s in our DNA.”
KJ