An excellent speaker, a gripping story – really what more can you ask of radio?
Maryknoll Sister, Giang Nguyen is gentle and articulate and tells of young women and girls being sold off in marriage to Taiwanese men. The statistics are hair raising -
100,000 Vietnamese women sold into marriage in Taiwan; marriage brokers earning thousands of dollars while the women themselves get a small fraction of that to send back to their families; 20-30% of the marriages involve abuse; teenagers ending up in brothels or in homes where they're passed around to all the male members of the family.
In the US the powers that be are saying that marriage and the family is something holy and sacrosant – stories like this need to get out to show how this institution is being abused in the worst way so that government action can be taken to curb it internationally.
28 minutes sped by – thoroughly recommended.
Review of Brides for Sale
Dheera Sujan
Posted on August 05, 2005 at 01:44 AM
An excellent speaker, a gripping story – really what more can you ask of radio?
Maryknoll Sister, Giang Nguyen is gentle and articulate and tells of young women and girls being sold off in marriage to Taiwanese men. The statistics are hair raising -
100,000 Vietnamese women sold into marriage in Taiwan; marriage brokers earning thousands of dollars while the women themselves get a small fraction of that to send back to their families; 20-30% of the marriages involve abuse; teenagers ending up in brothels or in homes where they're passed around to all the male members of the family.
In the US the powers that be are saying that marriage and the family is something holy and sacrosant – stories like this need to get out to show how this institution is being abused in the worst way so that government action can be taken to curb it internationally.
28 minutes sped by – thoroughly recommended.