Topic: Sexual Slavery
UN Report Says Sex Trafficking a Big Concern
February 16, 2009 ·
UNITED NATIONS – A NEW report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime said on Monday that sexual exploitation and forced labour are the most common forms of human trafficking around the globe.
Read More...Sex slavery plagues Romania and Bulgaria
December 28, 2006 ·
BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Anca thought girls who spoke on television about being sold into sex slavery were paid to invent such stories to boost tv show ratings.
That was until she answered a friend’s invitation to join her in Germany and work as a dishwasher in a town near Hamburg.
Read More...SAN FRANCISCO IS A MAJOR CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL CRIME NETWORKS THAT SMUGGLE AND ENSLAVE
October 6, 2006 ·
San Francisco Chronicle Friday, October 6, 2006 Many of San Francisco’s Asian massage parlors — long an established part of the city’s sexually permissive culture — have degenerated into something much more sinister: international sex slave shops. Once limited to infamous locales such as Bombay and Bangkok, sex trafficking is now an $8 billion international [...]
Read More...ITALY GATEWAY TO EUROPE FOR CHILD SEX SLAVES
August 12, 2002 ·
Rome — Italy is a main gateway into Europe for children sold into sex slavery, lured from poverty into a trade worth US $7 billion a year world-wide, delegates at a conference on child trafficking were told. Each year some 6,000 children aged between 12 and 16 are victims of child trafficking, according to a [...]
Read More...Child Sex Trade is Still Growing
April 6, 2002 ·
THE number of children being smuggled into Britain as sex slaves is growing.
The UK is among the eight leading ‘receiver’ nations for the youngsters from Eastern Europe and Africa, according to two new reports.
They estimate there are up to 10,000 children unaccompanied in Britain.
Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway and the Netherlands were also singled out.
Read More...US Lawmakers Vote in Crackdown on International Sex Traff’icking
May 24, 2000 ·
WASHINGTON DC – Sordid tales of women and children tricked or forced into sexual slavery echoed in the United States House chamber last week as lawmakers approved a bill aimed at cracking down on global sex trafficking.
Read More...US senators want curbs on ‘sex slave’ traffic
April 13, 2000 ·
WASHINGTON-Two senators want to see life sentences imposed on people who bring young children into the country to work as ‘sex slaves’. Democratic senators Paul Wellstone of Minnesota and Sam Brownback of Kansas plan separate bills aimed at cracking down on an illegal industry the CIA said brings 50,000 women and girls into this country [...]
Read More...Stopping sex-slave trade in the global economy
April 2, 2000 ·
Official U.S. estimates are that 2 million people, including 500,000 children, are being forced into prostitution.
A silent but horrific practice degrading women and children is, proliferating around the world. Known as sexual trafficking, it involves a systematic effort to kidnap females, many of whom are preteens, into forced prostitution.
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