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Human Trafficking
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[Lecture Resources | Resources for Teachers |
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Exploitation of
Runaways
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FEATURED ARTICLES *** USA Runaway raped, held as sex slave Judi Villa and Lindsey Collom,
The www.operationlookout.org/Lookout_Magazine/2005/11/runaway-raped-held-as-sex-slave/ [accessed 13 June 2013] [accessed 29 June 2017] Since
September, the 15-year-old girl had been raped repeatedly, threatened with
death and sold for sex over the Internet, police said. Her captors hid
the runaway in a hollowed-out box spring covered with a piece of wood and
tucked underneath a bed in a small apartment complex adjacent to Interstate
17 in west Ending the quiet tragedy of modern-day
slavery Leland Y. Yee, Assembly Speaker Pro Tem,
San Francisco Chronicle, February 17, 2005 www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Ending-the-quiet-tragedy-of-modern-day-slavery-2729680.php [accessed 15 August 2012] In the past 12
months, immigration agents have raided a number of suspected brothels in
quiet Despite shock at
how it could happen here, prostitution of youth is sadly all too common in
our community and, in fact, often involves children as young as 9 years old.
Child prostitution is a devastating problem that few people want to talk
about. The fact remains that rarely do child prostitutes begin selling their
bodies on their own. Many are coerced into the lifestyle and forced into
virtual slavery by traffickers and pimps. According to the advocacy
organization Standing Against Global Exploitation, 85 percent of child
prostitutes previously suffered incest, rape or abuse at home, and are often
singled out by pimps because they are runaways. - htsccp ***
ARCHIVES *** Iran Most runaway girls in www.wfafi.org/E-ZanVol14.htm [accessed 2 September 2014] [accessed 6 June 2017] Most runaway girls
in Iran are raped within the first 24 hours of their departure, according to
an Iranian government official speaking to the BBC. Dr. Hadi Motamedi, the head of
Social Ills Prevention Unit of the Health Ministry, said that the majority of
such victims are rejected by their families if they choose to return after
having been raped. Iran has one of the
highest record of runaway girls and women in the
world. Iran Political Executions, Child Prostitution,
and Forced Marriage at the Age of 9 : Ms Zadeh talks on the lack of
human rights in Iran and the urgency to put geopolitics to one side News & Civil Society Perspectives from
the Commission on Human Rights Sixty-first session 14 March - 22 April 2005
-- Contributors: Sebastian Zielinski (CONGO), April 11, 2005 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 6 September 2011] Child
prostitution has risen 635 percent in recent years. Dozens of Iranian girls
are brought to By law,
the father has the right to force a girl into marriage at the age of nine. A man
can have up to four wives and forty "temporary marriages".
Prostitution is thus codified in the Iranian law. Mentioning only a small
part of the atrocities carried out by the Iranian regime, it is not hard to
understand that Iran currently has the highest suicide rate in the world. USA Coalition to battle human trafficking Saundra Amrhein, www.sptimes.com/2006/06/09/State/Coalition_to_battle_h.shtml [accessed 11 January 2011] Many victims fear
coming forward because captors threaten to kill them and their families. Some
victims are All material used herein
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