Ashton Kutcher Being Criticized For His 'Real Men Don't Buy Girls' Campaign

I read that Ashton Kutcher and wife Demi Moore's campaign against child sex slavery is a noble cause but is hardly getting the attention that it deserves because they are hardly focused on the core issue.

Their campaign is called 'Real Men Don't Buy Girls'. Their promotion videos make use of celebrities like Sean Penn, Jamie Fox, Drake, Justin Timberlake and others. These celebrity videos aim to spread the message to stop child sex trafficking.

Critics think these are just way too entertaining. They say that the couple are to be blamed themselves because their campaign seems misguided and not structured. Most of the stuff they talk about is not even related to the main issue of child sex and slavery.

The issue with their campaign is with the execution part as per the critics. People feel that serious issues like child sex trafficking won't stop with efforts of Ashton Kutcher in which they joke about the masculinity on men on YouTube videos.

Helen Popkin says that it is just another technique similar to the posting the color of one's bra on Facebook status to wipe out breast cancer. Just that video campaigns cost much more money.

Honestly speaking, I looked at this Sean Penn video and a few others also but I didn't find them that bad. I mean it is a smart way of communicating. Indeed different from the other very serious campaigns but their message is also quite clear itself.

None of the people who indulge in these acts stop their hideous acts just by looking at the celebrity videos. More or less these messages hit the rest of the audience more and they stand up for these causes with more conviction.

I don't think Ashton Kutcher's campaign needs so much of criticism. It is just a bit different from other such campaigns. When will people stop criticizing everybody. Why don't they do something damn boring and serious themselves to promote the cause instead.

Stop Child Trafficking At Super Bowl

Every year, children as young as 11 are trafficked involuntarily to Super Bowl cities. There, football fans – usually men, often inebriated – will pay traffickers to have sex with them.

The Texas Attorney General estimates these kids have a life expectancy of just seven years from the time they're first trafficked.

This year, the Super Bowl Host Committee is charged "to engage in responsible planning . . . to ensure the readiness of North Texas to host the first Super Bowl in the Cowboys’ new stadium."

Local anti-trafficking groups have repeatedly offered to help the Committee use its influence to educate fans and the public about the dangers of child trafficking -- which could help to prevent thousands of rapes and abuses at America's biggest sporting event.

But the Host Committee has refused to take meaningful action. And thousands of children will pay the price.

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Children worldwide suffer from abhorrent acts of violence, exploitation and abuse — horrors no child should ever know or experience. Over 300 million of them are subjected to hazardous physical labor, commercial sex exploitation and child trafficking. Others are irrevocably harmed by cultural practices such as female genital mutilation and early marriage. Without basic protections, children are at risk of death, disease, poor physical and mental development, and homelessness.

Without protection from violence and exploitation, children's basic survival and development are at risk. Every day, millions of children are denied their fundamental right to safety and security.

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Help Stop Child Trafficking and Exploitation

This is a terrible situation. Ever since I could remember I have been reading such news and it is true not much is done about it. There is simply not enough fight being put up against child trafficking and exploitation. Children are suffering worldwide but people are unable to give them justice and healthy livelihood and childhood because we become weak in front of the corrupt systems perhaps.

More than 150 million children younger than 14 years-old are child laborers -- one in six children in the world. Those children do hazardous work in mines or on farms, often handling chemicals and pesticides or working near dangerous machinery. Others toil as domestic servants in homes or workshops.

Another 300,000 children under 18 are child soldiers used as combatants, messengers, porters, cooks, or sexual servants in some 30 conflicts worldwide. They are most often forcibly recruited or abducted, or feel so helpless and overwhelmed by poverty they are driven to join the fight.

Girls are particularly vulnerable. Some as young as 13 are trafficked as "mail-order brides." Nearly 90% of domestic workers trafficked in West and Central Africa are girls.

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