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The Buying and Selling of Human Beings for Sex and Labor
By cacilia, Violence Against Women, June 17th, 2009The State Department’s annual report on human trafficking (“Trafficking in Persons Report”) found that the current economic crisis has increased the worldwide trade in human beings — including young children — for sex and labor. The report, released this week, estimates that at least 12.3 million adults and children are victims of forced sex and labor every single year. This number is almost certainly too low as most victims live and work out of sight — in the outskirts of society and humanity. More than half of all victims are women and girls.
In today’s Washington Post, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, wrote about the devastating effects of trafficking and of her experiences holding “12-year-olds who had been trafficked and were dying of AIDS.” To many of…
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