Stefanie Dekker

"Miriana's" story.

Funny, smart and determined, on the surface she bears no scars of the eight years of unimaginable horror she’s been through.

I met "Miriana" (not her real name) in Amsterdam when I was working on a story on human trafficking.  The organisation we were dealing with helped victims of this ever-growing trade.  I was told she'd talk to us, but she’d rather not discuss her own story- she wanted to talk about the future, and how the government should work with the people who had suffered the very crime they were fighting.  "We have the knowledge, we have the experience- no one knows what goes on better than us ...