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April 3, 2008
BY JERRY LARGE
Seattle Times
Sex crimes instantly get our attention.
So it might seem counterintuitive that someone fighting human trafficking would want to divert our gaze from the most headline-grabbing aspect of that foul practice. But that is Liezl Tomas Rebugio's intent.
She wants us to move from headlines to human rights, and the abuse of those rights that leads to trafficking — in other words, to get to the root of the problem.
Tomas Rebugio is the anti-trafficking-project director for the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, which introduced its anti-trafficking agenda Monday in Seattle, where Rebugio works and where the idea originated.
Seattle has been an active city for the anti-trafficking movement partly because Asian women here have been so active. Velma Veloria, a former state representative, is credited with leading Washington to enact the first state anti-trafficking law (2003).
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For more information on Tides Center project National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, see www.napawf.org.
