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Trafficking South Asian children

Posted in adoption, asia, children, families, india, labor, nepal, policy, sex on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

A UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre report entitled “South Asia in Action: Preventing and responding to child trafficking” is calling on South Asian nations to crack down on the enslavement of children, a problem that is widespread in much of South Asia.
Allison Alert reports for the UNICEF Innocenti Research Center, which authored the report:
Children in South [...]

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Obama vs. McCain on human trafficking

Posted in americas, policy, prevention, united states, video on August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Few Americans will likely make human trafficking a deciding issue when they go to the polls this November. But nevertheless, the topic pops up now and then in speeches and interviews of the candidates. Paul Bernish, of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center’s Freedom Blog, broke down the candidates’ stances on [...]

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Beijing Olympics offer a promise of sex for tourists

Posted in asia, china, policy, prevention, sex, sex tourism, sporting events on August 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

As the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics kick off this weekend, William Sparrow for the Asia Times asks,
“China has the Games, doesn’t it expect the players to show up, too?”
In an article also featured on The Human Trafficking Project’s site, Sparrow refers to the inevitable influx of Olympic-going foreigners who double as sex tourists.
Anyone who studies [...]

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Through the looking glass: Dubai

Posted in dubai, global economics, labor, middle east, refugees, sex, sex tourism on August 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Dubai, by most accounts, is something of a fantasyland. Exploding with new money that begets uninhibited , almost Dr. Seussian, architecture and draws affluent business and pleasure-seekers from around the world, it has also, much like Las Vegas or Amsterdam, become what I like to call an exception zone. A playground of privilege, if you [...]

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