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A Former Sex Slave Finds Freedom As An Entrepreneur

HuffingtonPost.com | Janean Chun | Posted 05.21.2012

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Pamela Villarreal grew up as a sheltered child in a middle class home in upstate New York. But at age 15, one act of youthful rebellion ended up with ...

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2.4 Million People Are Victims Of Human Trafficking

AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 04.04.2012

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UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. crime-fighting office said Tuesday that 2.4 million people across the globe are victims of human trafficking at any one tim...

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Real Estate Broker Pleads Guilty In Sex Slave Scandal

Posted 12.23.2011

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A Missouri real estate broker pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges surrounding an eight year scandal in which several men held captive a mentally disa...

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Women Own 1% of the World's Property -- Occupy That

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Maternal Death, Equality, Women, Gender Bias, Violence Against Women, Poverty, Equity, Pay Equity, We Are Equals, Food Scarcity, Feminization of Poverty, Occupy Wall Street, Child Brides, Male Rights Movement, Girl Slaves, Patriarchy, Property, Gender, Starvation, Girl Effect, Oprah Winfrey, Half the Sky, Property Rights, Sex Slaves, Sexism, Slavery, Forbes, Stoning, Women News

How much poorer do we want women to get in the world? It's really hard to imagine. Despite the successes of feminists during the past century, even in the U.S. we have a persistent and growing feminization of poverty.

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'A Crisis Happening Right In Front Of Us': Atlanta Hospital Fights Sex Trafficking

Posted 08.20.2011

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Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Ga. is now training its health care personnel to identify victims of sex trafficking, CNN reports. In the train...

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Sex Slave Industry Thrives In Ukraine's Odessa (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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The Ukrainian city of Odessa is best known throughout Europe for its sun-drenched beaches and high-end spas. Yet according to a new report, the city's...

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African Sex Slaves Forced To Work In Irish Brothels

GlobalPost | Conor O'Clery | Posted 05.25.2011

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A founder of the Irish Republic, Eamon de Valera, famously idealized Ireland 70 years ago as an innocent land of saints and scholars, whose villages w...

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Khartoum Regime Hosts the World's Most Barbaric Militia: The Lord's Resistance Army

Mia Farrow | Posted 05.25.2011

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After the Lord's Resistance Army attacked a Central African village in Obo, they took three hundred children. Presumably the children were flown back to Northern Sudan to be sold on the slave market.

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Author Joseph Yannai Faces Sex Slavery Charges

The Journal News | Jonathan Bandler | Posted 05.25.2011

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Charges have been upgraded against a Pound Ridge author accused of luring foreign women to jobs at his home, failing to pay them and forcing some into...

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Break the Chains of Modern Slavery: End Demand

Amb. Swanee Hunt and Lina Sidrys Nealon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Slavery is more prevalent today than at any point in history. Free the Slaves estimates that 27 million people are trapped in debt bondage, domestic servitude, hard labor, or the sex trade.

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Period Panties Protest

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 11.17.2011

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I always knew my undies were powerful. In college someone went to the trouble of breaking into my apartment to steal them. (Side story: the perp wa...

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