I asked this question of Senator Cardin at the most recent meeting of the Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs:
"Here in Maryland people die in police custody not infrequently. Just a couple of weeks ago, a young man died in police custody. A few weeks ago, another young man was shot and killed at a traffic stop. You mentioned human trafficking: here in the United States, prostitution is a $33 billion industry, and the average age of entry into prostitution is thirteen: all of whom are victims of human trafficking. My question for you is: what are you doing to advance human rights and the rule of law in the United States?"
His answer was unsatisfying: he said that yes, we have problems in the United States, but they are "nothing like" the problems in Russia.
But another person asked about gender equity in human rights, and another person asked about human trafficking in Maryland, so I hope that, if enough other people call his attention to human trafficking, he will gradually consider it a more important problem, and recognize that it is a human rights issue, and maybe he will even do something about it.
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