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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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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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