Sexual Slavery

2.4 Million People Are Victims Of Human Trafficking

AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, Yuri Fedotov, United Nations, Michelle Bachelet, Sexual Exploitation, Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, Mira Sorvino, Sexual Slavery, Human Trafficking, Video, Slaves, M. Cherif Bassiouni, Sex Slaves, Ban Ki-Moon, World News

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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The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan Examines Sexual Abuse in Afghanistan

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Najibullah Quaraishi, The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan, Jamie Doran, Women in Afghan Society, Bachi Bazi, Impact, Documentary Film, Radhika Coomaraswamy, Sexual Slavery, Arts Activism, Northern Alliance, Taliban, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Afghanistan, Child Slavery, Sheberghan, Video, Impact News
Marcia G. Yerman

"Western soldiers will no longer be dying on a daily basis and, frankly, who will care any more about the deaths of Afghans after 2014? Can we honestly believe that, in this likely scenario, combating the abuse of poor children will be a priority?"

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The Modern Abolitionist Movement: Putting An End To Sex Slavery In America

Tom Matlack | Posted 07.18.2011

Read More: Prostitution, Sex Slavery, Emancipation Proclamation, Pimp, Slavery, Sex Trafficking, Sexual Abuse, Human Trafficking, Sexual Slavery, Impact News
Tom Matlack

Sex trafficking exists within the broader commercial sex trade, often at much higher rates than most people realize or understand.

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End Slavery Now

AnnaLynne McCord | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Southeast Asia, Child Sex Trafficking, Human Rights, Somaly Mam, Slavery, Cambodia, Sex Trafficking, Nicholas Kristof, AnnaLynne McCord, Child Prostitution, Rape, Somaly-Mam-Foundation, Sexual Slavery, Human Trafficking, Impact News
AnnaLynne McCord

A true heroine of our time, Somaly was sold into slavery at age 12 and forced to work in a brothel. Somaly managed to escape her captors, vowing to never forget those left behind.

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Slavery and Supply Chains

Julia Ormond | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California Transparency in Supply Chains Act, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Child Slavery, Sexual Slavery, Slavery, Human Trafficking, Los Angeles News
Julia Ormond

The California Transparency in Supply Chains Act requires retail sellers and manufacturers doing business to publicly disclose their efforts to eradicate slavery and human trafficking from their supply chains.

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The Abolition of Slavery -- We Have Come a Long Way, or Not?

Diana Mao | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michelle Obama First Lady, Michelle Obama, Sex Slavery, Human Slavery, Abolition, President Obama, Ghana, Human Rights Abuses, Obama Ghana, Human Trafficking, Sexual Slavery, Barack Obama 2008, Barak Obama, Human Rights, Modern Slavery, Obama Ghana Trip, Slavery, Child Slavery, Abolitionists, Impact News
Diana Mao

As I walked through the Cape Coast Castle, I realized that the slavery of centuries ago is not very different from modern day slavery -- the gross violation of human rights and the apathy of the masses towards their plight.

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Several Types of Slavery Linked to Congo's Mining Industry

Free The Slaves | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Conflict Minerals, Drc, Forced Marriage, Child Soldiers, Slavery, Congo, Forced Labor, Sexual Slavery, Human Rights, Modern Day Slavery, Human Trafficking, Impact News
Free The Slaves

It's vital that people in slavery are engaged in developing their own solutions. They tell us that boycotting slave-tainted and conflict-tainted products will only make their lives worse.

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Brilliant Film Premiers Monday in NYC, Offering Solution to Global Child Exploitation

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vietnamese Mafia, CUE Art Gallery, Juliet Supper Club, Film, Sexual Slavery, Adi Ezroni, Dr. Susan Bissell, Redlight Children Campaign, Ron Livingston, Madhu Dhas, Queen Silvia, Phnom Penh, Carolyn B. Maloney, Restore NYC, Guy Jacobson, Somaly Mam, Lexisnexis, Priority Films, Oiww, Interpol, Cambodian Mafia, Human Trafficking, Vietnam, Sexually Abused Children, Mu Sochua, Jim Luce, Abigail Disney, Susan Sarandon, Elkana Jacobson, Aids, Child Prostitution, Child Trafficking, Unicef, Lucy Liu, K11 Project, Nobel Peace Prize, Holly, Goodwill Ambassador, Swanee Hunt, New York City, Global Hero Award, Lauren Bush, Brothels, Cambodia, Israel, Hillary Clinton, Orphans International Worldwide, Chinese Mafia, Human Rights, RedLightChildren.Org, U.S. State Department, Sex Industry, Redlight, Andrew Prozes, Vital Voices, Mark Lagon, World Economic Forum, Richard Attias, Cecilia Attias, Davos, Alyse Nelson, New York News
Jim Luce

Not often does a filmmaker present both an untenable social problem - and its solution. Not often is its filmmaker an artist as well as a banker and ...

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Homaidan Al-Turki, Colorado Man Who Kept House Keeper As Slave, Has Conviction Upheld By Supreme Court

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Religious Persecution, Homaidan Al-Turki, Sexual Slavery, Al-Turki v. Colorado, Al Turki 09-700, Al-Turki v. Colorado (09-700)., Al-Turki vs Colorado, Denver News

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Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Sponsors House Hearing on Child Trafficking

Conchita Sarnoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Rights Commission, Drug Cartels, Thomas Friedman, Undocumented Immigrants, Human Slavery, Children, Washington DC, Tom Lantos, Immigration, Sexual Assault, Sexual Slavery, Mexican Drug Cartels, Immigration Reform, Television, Child Abuse, Child Trafficking, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Slavery, Child Slavery, Immigration Debate, David Sarnoff, Politics News
Conchita Sarnoff

In order to undertake the darker side of immigration reform, such as child trafficking, lawmakers must create a sustainable budget and measurement system that collates factual data and statistics.

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Slavery, Passover and The World Cup

Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 2010 World Cup, Passover, Sexual Slavery, Slavery, Home News
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater

This post has been adapted from a piece written on Passover and slavery for Rabbis For Human Rights-North America's annual Passover distribution. You...

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Bound Together: Contemporary Slavery and Global Poverty

Rabbi Steve Gutow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Year's Resolutions, Foreign Policy, Sexual Slavery, Slavery, World News
Rabbi Steve Gutow

As individuals, we resolve to do all kinds of things. But it is those commitments we resolve to do as a society which are both more difficult and more meaningful. This decade, let us resolve to end human slavery.

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Diary of an Escaped Sex Slave

Abigail Pesta | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Rights, Somaly Mam, Slavery, Cambodia, Sreypov, Brothels, Human Trafficking, Sexual Slavery, Marie Claire, World News
Abigail Pesta

You think slavery went out with Abraham Lincoln? Ask my friend Sreypov Chan about that. When she was seven years old, her mom sold her into sexual slavery.

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Obama's Abolitionist

E. Benjamin Skinner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rape, Barack Obama, Mexico, Sexual Slavery, George W. Bush, Slavery, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, World News
E. Benjamin Skinner

Lou de Baca is that rare breed of political appointee whose only qualification is that he is enormously qualified to do the job.

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AIDS Health Workers and Anti-Trafficking Activists -- Is There a Conflict?

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Presidency, HIV/AIDS, Doctors Without Borders, Prostitution, Violence Against Women, Ngos, Brothels, Condoms, U.S.State Department, Human Trafficking, Sexual Slavery, World News
Marcia G. Yerman

In March of 2008, I interviewed a senior State Department Official who discussed efforts to highlight awareness of the link between sex trafficking and HIV/AIDS.

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Trade Cards, Not People

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ashley Judd, Matisyahu, Stephen Colbert, Cornel West, Slavery, Rockumentary, Sweat Shops, Brothels, Child Prostitution, Justice, Forced Labor, Call Response, Spirituality, Sexual Slavery, Video, Politics News
Cathleen Falsani

Call Response weaves raw footage shot undercover in brothels and sweatshops in the developing world with talking heads such as Cornel West.

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In Response to the ABC Nightline Special on Sex Trade in Haiti

Arthur Fournier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Orphanages, HIV/AIDS, Poverty, Dan Harris, Health, Freedom, Haiti, Aids, Sexual Slavery, Sustainability, Politics News
Arthur Fournier

Exploitation of vulnerable people has nothing to do with ethnicity or culture and everything to do with poverty and the survival choices poor people are forced to make.

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Period Panties Protest

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Menstruation, Rape, Sharon Stone, Victoria's Secret, Underpants, Crimes Against Women, Panties for Peace, Thailand, Myanmar, Lindsay Logan, Human Trafficking, Sexual Slavery, Junta, Period, Underwear, Burma, Sex Slaves, Karma, Protests, Upskirting, Women's Underwear, Period Panties, Cyclones, China, Ralph Lauren, Political Protest, Panties, The Giving Life, Healthy Living News
Charlotte Hilton Andersen

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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