by Ben Randall | Jun 30, 2015
Almost four years after being abducted from her home in Vietnam and sold as a bride in China, my trafficked friend M was nearly home. M’s Chinese “husband” had, unexpectedly, given his permission for M to visit her family in Vietnam.As an illegal...
by Ben Randall | Jun 25, 2015
M’s story had been a horrific one – yet how was she to prove it?When she’d been abducted as a teenager from her home in Vietnam and trafficked into China, my young Hmong friend had been stripped of her clothes, her Vietnamese phone, and her...
by Ben Randall | Jun 22, 2015
There are many similarities in the stories of my trafficked Hmong friends M and P. Both were abducted at the age of sixteen from their home in northern Vietnam. Both were deceived, drugged and spirited across the border by young Vietnamese Hmong men. Both were held...
by Ben Randall | Jun 18, 2015
The past month has, for me, been spent deep in the edit of Sisters For Sale, our feature-length documentary to raise awareness of human trafficking. The film focuses on the stories of my teenaged Hmong friends who were abducted from northern Vietnam and trafficked to...
by Ben Randall | Jun 16, 2015
In 2010, while living in the mountains of northern Vietnam, I became friends with a teenaged Hmong girl named M. The following year M was abducted, and was believed trafficked to China for sale as a bride or prostitute. Last year, I finally succeeded in contacting,...
