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The crime of human trafficking generates an estimated $US32 billion a year.

$US28billion comes from sex trafficking.

 

The first three clips focus on real stories of young women who were deceived, sexually abused, raped, tortured – all for profit. Please watch, then share. These stories must be heard.

 

 

Photographer and activist Chakarova puts a face on global sex trafficking through "The Price of Sex," a project done in collaboration with the Center for Investigative Reporting.

Chakarova's momentum: "What inspires me to do this work is that knowing is better than not knowing; otherwise we're left in the dark on matters that need immediate change."

Please also visit the website The Price of Sex for more information.

 

 

 

Thank you to the A21 campaign. Please visit their website by clicking here.
Also visit, the
Somaly Mam Foundation

 

 

 

Thank you to Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times, who visits Cambodia and meets Long Pross, a young woman who was forced into sexual slavery.

 

 

Sex Trafficking Inside the Business of Modern Slavery
This is the story told by a Mexican woman who was trafficked to the US for sexual exploitation.
We worked six days a week and twelve-hour days. We mostly had to serve thirty-two to thirty-five clients a day. Weekends were worse. Our bodies were utterly sore and swollen. The bosses did not care…we worked no matter what. This included during menstruation. Clients would become enraged if they found out. The bosses instructed us to place a piece of clothing over the lamps to darken the room. They did not protect us from client beatings. Also, at the end of the night, our work did not end. It was now the bosses’ turn with us. If anyone became pregnant we were forced to have abortions.
pp 186-187, Sex Trafficking Inside the Business of Modern Slavery by Siddharth Kara, Columbia University Press, 2009. [No copyright infringement intended.]
Please note that this book has been recently published in Greek by Asvos Publications. Available at leading bookstores.
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