The Truth About the Sex Trade: Vulnerabilities Leading to “the Life”
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“I was conditioned through my childhood for trafficking. Everything pointed in that direction.”
Super Bowl Weekend – Where Sex Traffickers Win
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This weekend, as fans gather for the Super Bowl to enjoy the game, others will be present–not to enjoy, but to be enjoyed. These are the unseen girls and women in the commercial sex trade.
“Yes Men Can,” says India’s Kant Brothers
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It is a difficult and risky job to raid a brothel and bring the culprits to court, but we were determined to continue.
Commentary
Emotional Poverty and Sex Trafficking
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It was emotional poverty that made me vulnerable. I didn’t fit in and I yearned to blend into the black culture.
sex trafficking
Sex Trafficking Survivor Says It’s Time to Stop Glamorizing Prostitution
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What is inherently harmful is being passed off by Hollywood as a glamorous lifestyle of choice, says Rebecca Bender, who was trafficked for nearly six years. This causes the myths about prostitution to proliferate.
Crime & Law
In Bay Area, Anti-Trafficking Team Set for Super Bowl Kick-Off
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Nonprofits have been working with law enforcers and members of the public ahead of the big game on Feb. 7. An airport official in the Bay Area says the benefits extend beyond this single event, since the problem is year-round.
Teen Voices
Teens Are Starting to Study, Talk About Sex Trafficking
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Advocacy groups are sending their curricula into classrooms as a way to prevent some of what the U.S. Justice Department estimates as 300,000 cases of sex trafficking each year in the U.S.
Boko Haram
Outrage Grows at Boko Haram Seizure of Schoolgirls
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As delegates arrive in Nigeria for the May 7-9 World Economic Forum on Africa they are likely to run into protesters in the capital city of Abuja. Nigeria’s president has accepted a U.S. offer to help secure the students’ release.
Football
Video: Super Bowl Brings NYC Trafficking Warning
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“The GIFT Box,” a sidewalk exhibit about the dangers of human trafficking, has been on display in New York in the week leading up to the Super Bowl on Sunday, being held a few miles away in New Jersey.
Brazil
In Domestic Violence, No Incident Is Too Minor
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It starts with black eyes and broken fingers and moves up the ladder to the crimes that make the news. By prosecuting lower level crimes and addressing intimate partner violence before it escalates, we will save women’s lives around the world.