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In the Summer of 2010, as the government of South Africa readied its stadiums for their first FIFA World Cup, the countries’ street ministries, educators, and police readied themselves for an anticipated increase in human trafficking. A deluge of reports and campaigns convinced the public that between 40,000 and 100,000 women and children would be trafficked into host cities to meet the apparent increased demand for paid sex. In response to this media frenzy, a number of international health, gender and development organizations, national governments, and NGO’s from around the globe invested substantial funds into rolling out anti-trafficking campaigns. With the popular consensus being that huge numbers of women and girls are routinely trafficked within and into South Africa for the purposes of sexual exploitation, the issue would appear to be cut and dried, well deserving of global attention and immediate bold action. But a closer investigation of the issue reveals a much more complicated relationship between those that want to do good works and the actual issues they hope to address.Ultimately, the prediction of increased human trafficking was a gross overestimation based on unsubstantiated evidence. So why was it made and what was the effect? “Don’t Shout Too Loud” offers the harsh and unsettling theory that special interest groups are manipulating public policy in order to promote their agendas by inflating the scope of human trafficking. In doing so, they cause public panic and resources to be directed away from those who require the most help.
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Eye opening
We've heard a lot about the horrors of human trafficking, but very little about the organizations that promote the awareness of it, and even less about the origins of these organizations. "DS2L" shines a light on them and begs some interesting questions: are their motives purely altruistic or are other agendas at play? And, are their efforts to draw attention to human trafficking actually drawing attention away from more wide reaching issues such as problems with education and labor rights?
A must watch
Don't Shout Too Loud gives us an eye opening look at the affects of misinformation. The film explores the international attention given to World Cup and the ways in which organizations exploit that attention to promote their own agendas. Interviews with NGO's, international agencies and people on the ground working to bring change to the under served allow you to see what happens when those agendas divert the public's attention from the real issues at play.
Don't Shout Too Loud
The title is perfect :Don't Shout Too Loud! This is an interesting twist to a solid premise. There are so many important organizations and needy groups out there asking for funding, I hate to see any of it go toward a phantom problem. That short guy behind the big desk must have been squirming.
