http://humangoods.net/2008/05/07/the-countertraffickers/ understanding today's global slave trade Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:20:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://humangoods.net/2008/05/07/the-countertraffickers/#comment-23 James Edwards Fri, 09 May 2008 21:31:51 +0000 http://humangoods.net/?p=61#comment-23 Ironic fact: Not sure if it was last year or the year before, but Northwestern's Kellogg School of Business took its annual surprise class trip to Dubai. It is also one of the places that's part of their global initiatives in management program. I'm curious to know if there have been efforts to put financial pressure on companies (domestic and foreign) who do business in cities and countries where something like prostitution and sex trafficking is so prevalent. It's interesting that the regions where many of these women in Dubai come from suffer large numbers of poverty, disease and inadequate education. Maybe it's not enough to stop the trafficking but look at the policies that are setting these type conditions in places like Sub-Saharan Africa and Eastern Europe. Ironic fact: Not sure if it was last year or the year before, but Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Business took its annual surprise class trip to Dubai. It is also one of the places that’s part of their global initiatives in management program. I’m curious to know if there have been efforts to put financial pressure on companies (domestic and foreign) who do business in cities and countries where something like prostitution and sex trafficking is so prevalent. It’s interesting that the regions where many of these women in Dubai come from suffer large numbers of poverty, disease and inadequate education. Maybe it’s not enough to stop the trafficking but look at the policies that are setting these type conditions in places like Sub-Saharan Africa and Eastern Europe.

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