Along with its failure to spread actual awareness, social media’s one-sided view of human trafficking, where undermining of the seriousness of this situation takes place, fails to reveal the poor public policies put in place. Our justice system is known to have treated these trafficking cases as ordinary crimes, and is ineffective about tackling the larger human trafficking network. There have also been numerous cases in which the police failed to protect victims. Nicholas Kristof, author of the book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, shares the story of a Cambodian girl named Srey Rath, who sought work to help pay her bills, but was sold to the owner of a brothel in the capital of Malaysia where she was
