Lucy Liu travels to Cairo for her sex trade doc
Actress and journalist Lucy Liu travelled to Cairo to promote a film she produced about children being taken and sold into the sex trade in Cambodia.
Liu, 40, who narrated for the documentary Red Light, said the fight against human trafficking is “really going to take a long time” and underlined it was the third most profitable business in the world after weapons and drugs trading.
The former The View co-host visited several UNICEF-backed programs in Egypt while care was taken not to reveal too much about their locations to avoid stirring political controversy.
She said: “The first step is there are a couple of projects that exist and that is something wonderful.”
Egypt’s First Lady, Suzanne Mubarak, launched a global initiative to fight human trafficking in 2006. Liu, meanwhile, also recently made headlines in relation to diplomatic rescue of her kidnapped sister and another journalist from North Korea, by former President Bill Clinton.
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