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The downfall of a sex slave ringBy Jonathan Abel, Times Staff Writer Published Saturday, March 14, 2009 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------CLEARWATER — She came from Guatemala, a woman in her early 20s smuggled into the United States for what she thought was a housekeeping job. The journey from her small town to the Texas border took 26 days. From

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The Age Newspaper is running an anti-trafficking campaign and is featuring THE JAMMED. To link:http://www.theage.com.au/interactive/2009/national/trafficking/index.htmland a direct link to the film:http://www.theage.com.au/interactive/2009/national/trafficking/jammed.html

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Instead, the bright-eyed little girl was sold by her father and became a "doll" in a Mumbai brothel. Asha was only nine when her father sold her to a procurer. She came from a very poor family. Seven children had been born to Asha's parents. They certainly could not afford a girl.The bright-eyed little girl had no idea what was going on or how her life was about to change forever. She only knew

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Internal Trafficking often means little distance travelled and Sexual Assault to break down resistance may take place only blocks away from home.Shauna Newell was fortunate when she was abducted two years ago. Thanks to her mother and Klaas’ organization, which organized a search for her, she was rescued after three days. She’s gone public to warn other girls about how easy it is to be kidnapped

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The Countertraffickersby William FinneganA Mafia boss in Kiev may be living on a cut of the proceeds from your exploitation, but your personal hell will very likely start, if you’re Moldovan, with a betrayal by a friend or a relative angling for a commission. You might even be sold into prostitution by the person sleeping next to you.“I wanted money, and I was deceived,” Lena said. (Some of the

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Testimony of Marsha "My name is Marsha, and I am from Southern Russia. In 1996, when I was 24, I visited St. Petersburg. I was preparing to return home to my village, waiting at the train station one day when a woman approached me. She started talking with me about life problems, encouraging me to share mine with her. We had a nice talk, and the woman suggested that she could help me to get work

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Testimony of Maria "I'll call myself Maria in this story. This is a real story about my life and I am not the only one who could be named that name. There are many Marias like I am and that is the reason to bring this story to daylight - to stop 'Maria's Story' happens again. I come from a little village in Albania where my parents and my sisters still live. They probably think I am dead, and I

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Testimony of Gina Gina was a young child -- only nine years old -- living with her family in a small village in Nepal. However, unlike Asha, Gina wasn't sold. She was stolen.Drugged with a "sweet drink" by a friend, Gina awoke on a train – never to see her family again. When Gina arrived in Bombay after a three-day journey, she remembers being grabbed by the hand, rushed down a crowded street

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Testimony of Alina "I met my boyfriend at my girl-friend’s house. He had been dating me for a month already when he told me he was going to marry me. My boyfriend told me we could earn some money for our wedding if we went to work in Greece at his friend’s company.We would stay for three months there to earn enough money and come back. I was extremely happy. I could not believe all that was

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Somaly Mam's Story. By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOFPublished: September 24, 2008 World leaders are parading through New York this week for a United Nations General Assembly reviewing their (lack of) progress in fighting global poverty. That’s urgent and necessary, but what they aren’t talking enough about is one of the grimmest of all manifestations of poverty — sex trafficking. Fred R. Conrad/The New

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Croatia: A Human Trafficking Victim Speaks With RFE/RL June 15, 2006 By Ankica Barbir MladinovicA Moldovan newspaper ad offering employment to young women (RFE/RL)ZAGREB, June 15, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Trafficking in women for the purpose of sexual exploitation is becoming increasingly widespread in countries undergoing transition. Many young women seeking better jobs and better lives find themselves

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SEX SLAVE IN BOSNIA RECOUNTS HER ORDEALBy Nidzara Ahmetasevic, SarajevoMarch 18, 2003 – (IWPR'S BALKAN CRISIS REPORT) The Moldovan woman is only 20, but she looks far older. "My boss paid a thousand euro for me," she told IWPR in excellent Bosnian. "It was just like buying a t-shirt - you turn it around, look it over and if you like it, you buy. That's how it was with me."Elena, not her real name

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Testimony of Rosario.THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF INTERNAL TRAFFICKING (every bit as evil but receiving of less attention) - Patricia Church- Blog Editor.Rosario was the ninth child of twelve in a poor family in Manila. Her mother died when she was nine years old. For awhile, her older brothers and sisters cared for the younger children, but after a few years they were unable to keep their small house,

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The Beginning "When did it all begin?" I asked Sasha. We were sitting around a table covered with brightly colored teacups and trays of cookies. The small apartment, belonging to our friend Lauran, felt like the haven that it had become: peaceful, gentle, safe. I knew something about Sasha's story from Lauran - that she had been trafficked to Germany and Holland, that she had a young daughter,

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Testimony of PatriciaFrom her home in an impoverished village in rural Bolivia, the prospect of quick riches as an escort girl proved impossible to resist for 23-year-old Patricia Suarez.A neighbor working for a Hong Kong gang suggested the trip, promising the youngmother an escape from part-time work as a domestic servant that paid only US $50 (HK $387) a week.Desperate for money, the former

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Testimony of Maria"I'll call myself Maria in this story. This is a real story about my life and I am not the only one who could be named that name. There are many Marias like I am and that is the reason to bring this story to daylight - to stop 'Maria's Story' happens again. I come from a little village in Albania where my parents and my sisters still live. They probably think I am dead, and I

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Posted on Wed, Sep. 17, 2008 Teen details human trafficking, prostitutionBY RON SYLVESTERThe Wichita Eagle She had a baby at 14, fathered by a man in his 30s.At 15, she ran away, and met another man who she said took her from Wichita to Dallas and put her on the streets as a prostitute.Now 16, the girl took the witness stand Tuesday and pointed to Marlin Williams as the man she knew by the

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Meeting the 'chocolate slaves' By Humphrey Hawksley BBC, Mali The morning Malian sun was so severe that it cast on the white-washed wall stark shadows of the four children sitting upright and bewildered on a bench. A fan cooled sweat from their faces. Its breeze blew a sheet of paper off the table. One of the children helpfully ran after it and handed it over to the woman looking after them

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A personal story of Thai woman who was trafficked to Japan as a sex worker (THAIWOMEN case)"Since arriving to work in Japan, I cried a lot although normally I did not cry easily" --- A personal story of Thai woman who was trafficked to Japan as a sex worker After leaving a primary school, I helped my parents do some domestic chores and worked in the paddy field. My friend told me that she was

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Trafficking of Nigerian Women into Italy is a human rights issue that reflects a global problem. This case study uses the example of the Trafficking of Nigerian Women into Italy for reasons of prostitution and sexual exploitation to highlight the human rights violations committed against women, the massive infection of HIV/AIDS among the women, and the social repercussions of the most profitable

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CHOCOLATE and SLAVERYThere are about 600,000 cocoa farms in Cote d'Ivoire (Child Labor Coalition). Estimates of the number of children forced to work as slaves on these farms are as high as 15,000 (Save the Children Canada). In addition to the very illegality of trafficking and hiring children workers, the implicated cocoa farmers subject the children to inhuman living conditions. Besides

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Part One clip courtesy of MTV networks

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Clip Courtesy PBS Network America

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Clip courtesy Russia Today

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Clip courtesy MSNBC Network America

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For almost a year, 20-year-old Katya, a university student from Ukraine was forced to work strip clubs in Detroit by two men she thought were taking her to a waitressing job in America. Alex Maksimenko’s and Michail Aronov imprisoned her and 15 other women in separate apartments around Detroit. Katya: "We couldn't kept any money in our apartment because the guys has keys. They have, I believe,

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International FORUM SPIEGEL WISSEN ABO CHILD TRAFFICKING IN CAMBODIABy Annette Langer The horror scene is, sadly, reality: A 25-day-old Cambodian baby is sold to a human trafficker for a pittance. Police manage to break up the sale at the border, but that, sadly, is the exception in a country where children have long been a major export product. Most wind up as forced workers or sex slaves.The

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Pot was recruited to work in Japan in 1990 when she was twenty-seven years old.A friend I knew from the market in Nakhon Sawan told me about the opportunity to work in factories in Japan. I had divorced my Thai husband when I was four months pregnant and now my son was three years old and I had to raise him by myself and was finding it difficult to make enough money. My parents asked me not to go

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"One day when I was 17, I went to my cousin’s wedding party. He said he could offer me a good job. I went with him to a hotel and there he raped me in front of a dozen people. For 15 days he kept me at this hotel in Hetquda [Nepal]. Then we left for India. In Rakswal, India, my cousin gave me some tea with pop rice, which made me very drowsy and he told the Indian police that I was his sick wife

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Tales of sex and sadness from inside Britain's oldest profession'I'D BEEN DREAMING OF A FUTURE AS A WIFE AND A MOTHER' - ALMA, 26 - Alma (not her real name) fell in love with a man she met in Poland seven months ago. He said he wanted to introduce her to his family. Under this pretence, he ended up kidnapping her. He used a false passport to bring her to Manchester and force her to work in a

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"Before I came to the United States, I lived in a small town near Veracruz, Mexico. I helped support my family by working in the fields, harvesting lemons. Although I did not mind the work, I wished I could earn more money to help my family.Sometime in 1997, a woman named Maria Elena approached me and told me about opportunities for work in the United States.She told me she had worked there at a

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Testimony of GinaGina was a young child -- only nine years old -- living with her family in a small village in Nepal. However, unlike Asha, Gina wasn't sold. She was stolen.Drugged with a "sweet drink" by a friend, Gina awoke on a train – never to see her family again. When Gina arrived in Bombay after a three-day journey, she remembers being grabbed by the hand, rushed down a crowded street

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Testimony of EleniEleni, 25, didn't know the friend who wrote inviting her to work as a waitress was now a prostitute. Once at the Bosnian restaurant her new owner told her she had been bought for 900 DEM and had to repay him by having sex with his customers. When she refused she was beaten until she couldn't walk for days but was still forced to have sex.She said: "My owner told me 'You are

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Testimony of Alina"I met my boyfriend at my girl-friend’s house. He had been dating me for a month already when he told me he was going to marry me. My boyfriend told me we could earn some money for our wedding if we went to work in Greece at his friend’s company.We would stay for three months there to earn enough money and come back. I was extremely happy. I could not believe all that was

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Deng, in her late 20's, was recruited in her native Thailand to travel voluntarily to Australia where she was told she could make lots of money as a prostitute. Upon arrival in Australia, however, she was met by traffickers who took away her passport and locked her in a house. She was told that she would have to pay off a debt of over $30,000 by servicing 900 men. She was given little food to eat

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Australia surely is an attractive immigration destination. It offers the dream of a better life; it stands as a beacon for freedom and hope and opportunity; a nation of acceptance, tolerance, equality. But not everyone who lands on our shores is privy to this privileged view of our home.It is estimated between 500 and 1000 girls are “imported” into Australia each year by individuals and

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