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Circus Slaves

Posted in asia, awareness, children, families, human goods original reporting, india, labor, nepal, policy, sex on November 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Dutch filmmakers Chris Relleke and Jascha de Wilde’s 2002 film, Starkiss, depicts a young girl gripping a rope with her teeth as she is spun several meters in the air in front of a mesmerized audience. The film explores the enslavement of children in Indian circuses, what the filmmakers describe as “a world hidden [...]

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Children of Industry: South Asia’s child labor dilemma

Posted in asia, bangladesh, children, consumption, india, labor, policy, prevention, production chains, prosecution on November 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »

These are the hands of an 8-year-old …

Child laborer in a Dhaka garment factory (photo: G.M.B. Akash – click for more)
The ubiquitous smile of the poor should not be taken at face value; it conceals inexhaustible grief,
Jeremy Seabrook cautions in his September piece in the New Internationalist. The longtime reporter on poverty in South Asia [...]

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Ruchira Gupta on the failure of India’s anti-trafficking efforts

Posted in asia, india, policy, prevention, prosecution, sex on October 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »

“As long as there are customers, there will always be other little girls that can be bought,” a teenager rescued from an Indian brothel told Ruchira Gupta.
This month in the Wall Street Journal Gupta, founder and president of the anti-trafficking organization Apne Aap Women Worldwide, identified curbing the demand for trafficked and underage prostitutes as [...]

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The system or the girl: IJM and the raiding debate

Posted in activism, asia, cambodia, children, global, india, philippines, policy, prevention, prosecution, sex, video on October 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This month, The Nation publishes the second in a two-part series on attempts to combat sex trafficking in the U.S. and abroad.  The first article, published in September, profiles (oftentimes quite critically) the work of the Christian NGO, International Justice Mission (IJM).
IJM works on a variety of issues, including not only the pursuit of freedom [...]

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Bringing down Dr. Horror: Organ trafficking in India

Posted in asia, india, organ trafficking, prosecution on December 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »

(Photo source: Upick Reviews, featuring a list of 8 countries where organ trafficking occurs, including China, Kosovo, Pakistan, and Moldova)
The current issue of The Atlantic covers the recent arrest of Amit Kumar, who author Yudhijit Bhattacharjee calls “India’s self-taught and self-made kidney king.”  The Indian media have been a little less forgiving, dubbing him “Dr. [...]

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All that glitters: Child labor and Pakistani bangle-making

Posted in asia, awareness, children, consumption, global economics, labor, pakistan, production chains on October 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

IRIN recently reported on the International Labor Organization’s study of child labor in Pakistan’s bangle industry.  According to the study, children must hunch over hot stoves for average 12-hour days in order to produce glass bangles.
Pakistan’s Federal Bureau of Statistics claims 3.3 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 are currently involved in [...]

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Sexpatriotism: ‘The last place you can be a white man’

Posted in asia, global economics, sex, sex tourism on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

After the Christmas 2004 tsunami, Hannah Lobel, in a 2005 article from the Utne Reader, described “slimy ’sexpatriates’ who’ve set up shop as purveyors of women free from the influence of ‘feminazis’” that took advantage of young women and girls struck by the disaster. She’s referring to an article by Alex Renton describing the tendency [...]

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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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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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Myanmar cyclone hits the most vulnerable hardest

Posted in asia, child soldiers, children, myanmar, natural disasters, refugees, sex on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Myanmar, Seth Mydans wrote in The New York Times this week, has one of the world’s highest recruitments of child soldiers, with many of them coerced through violence, kidnapping, and terror to join the army.
Mydans draws his information from a report recently released by Human Rights Watch on the use of child soldiers worldwide. According [...]

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