The Law and how to get around it

Slavery is illegal everywhere. However it also happens everywhere. Here in the US with our legal system and powerful police force, both on the local and federal level, the issue of human trafficking is still a big one. How much more so in Cambodia, where police officers don't even know the details behind the genocide that caused the lasting chaos the nation suffers. In fact, given the problematic motives and abilities of law enforcement in many places, appealing to the law to end slavery is not a viable options. That is not without extra work, and not without the willingness to be what could be called flexible with regard to the law and more often the individuals tasked with carrying it out.

Flexibility was what I had the opportunity to exercise on the occasion of obtaining citizenship papers for the children of the Charis Project that I described in a previous post. Stay tuned for next time as we explore other examples of working with, and sometimes around the law in order to obtain freedom for those the law has a tendency to forget.