I’m not a social worker, but what really got me was listening and meeting young women face to face and hearing that story. The brutality and injustice of human trafficking changed me; the women were the ones who changed me – it wasn’t the statistics and the analysis of the issue, it was the young women who have suffered incredible stress. 

Michael O’Loughlin is a writer based in Washington, DC. He’s written for National Catholic Reporter, America, Foreign Policy  and the Advocate, and he has appeared on Fox News and MSNBC.

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On the 39th anniversary of the closing of the Vietnam War, 20 percent of the countryside is still littered with thousands of unexploded bombs and munitions; the very poor have taken to diffusing them to sell for scrap, and many lives and limbs are lost each year by farmers and others who accidentally dig them up.