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fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago

Teens were on 'incredible adventure' through Asia before apparent methanol poisoning in Laos

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Teens were on 'incredible adventure' through Asia before apparent methanol poisoning in Laos

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fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago
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The parents of Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones remain at their bedsides in separate Thai hospitals as the Melbourne women fight for their lives after drinking tainted alcohol.
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    Carrots have been recalled in the US because they killed a guy, that’s on top of gun shot being the #1 cause of death for American children. I think Laos is pretty safe by comparison.

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      Laos is a source, and to a lesser extent, a transit and destination country for human trafficking. As a criminal activity, trafficking in person is difficult to evaluate and statistics documenting the scale of this subject in Laos are poor. International surveys estimate that between 200,000 and 450,000 people are trafficked annually within the Greater Mekong Subregion.

      Sounds like a very safe place for two pretty white teens traveling alone. /S

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        In the United States, there are more than 1 million people living in conditions of modern slavery, according to a recent study[1]. Annually, it is estimated that between 15,000 to 50,000 women and children are forced into sexual slavery[2]. The National Human Trafficking Hotline reported 10,359 cases involving 16,554 individual victims in 2021[4].

        Citations: [1] More than 1 million human trafficking victims in USA – new study https://hopeforjustice.org/news/more-than-1-million-human-trafficking-victims-in-usa-new-study/ [2] Facts About Human Trafficking in the US - DeliverFund.org https://deliverfund.org/blog/facts-about-human-trafficking-in-united-states/ [3] What Human Trafficking Is, and Isn’t https://humantraffickinghotline.org/en/human-trafficking [4] Myths, Facts, and Statistics - Polaris Project https://polarisproject.org/myths-facts-and-statistics/ [5] Human Trafficking Data Collection Activities, 2022 https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/human-trafficking-data-collection-activities-2022 [6] National Statistics - National Human Trafficking Hotline https://humantraffickinghotline.org/en/statistics [7] The Exploitation of Women and Children – A Comparative Study of Human Trafficking Laws between the United States-Mexico and China-Vietnam https://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/human_trafficking1.html [8] Human Trafficking from Laos: How, Why, and Where? https://greydynamics.com/human-trafficking-from-laos-how-why-and-where/

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        Dude you’ll never get anywhere in here with logic and reason sorry.

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          When people are arguing with you about unsafe alcohol, and you randomly bring up human trafficking because that’s where your mind cooked by rural fear porn immediately goes — that’s not making a good argument, sorry

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      Fucking go live in Laos then you idiot lmfao

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        Aww, did i hurt your fee fees? Go find a safe space where no one ever criticizes the country you were born in, then you won’t have to read mean people’s comments

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          Dude wtf are you even talking about. Noone criticized the place I was born.

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            So you just get overly sensitive when someone criticizes a place where you don’t even live?

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              Dude I was just saying if you think Laos is safe compared to America than go live there lmao

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