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Sex slaves: yesterday, today, and tomorrow
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Last updated 7-7-07
-- WWII Sex Slaves Testify Against Japan By FOSTER KLUG; February 15, 2007; sfgate.com
-- Apology cold comfort for sex slaves | Herald Sun; February 17, 2007; news.com.au
-- Plea to Congress to End Sexual Bondage in U.S. Islands by Anna Schecter; February 08, 2007; blogs.abcnews.com
-- Sex Slavery Ring Uncovered in Georgia; 1/2/2007; wltx.com
"Trokosi is a traditional practice of sexual slavery in some parts of Ghana, Togo, and Benin....In this practice, young girls, usually under the age of 10 and sometimes as young as three, are given to village fetish shrine priests as sexual/domestic slaves or "wives of the gods" in compensation for offenses allegedly committed, or debts incurred, by a member of the girl's family, or as payment for favours sought from the shrine."
-- Trokosi; en.wikipedia.org; available 2-25-07
-- Sex slavery plagues Romania and Bulgaria By Justyna Pawlak
27 Dec 2006; Reuters
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-- Prisoners of love - Web site offers captive dates - Yahoo! News By Rosalind Russell Mon Feb 12, 2007; news.yahoo.com
"The Russian military is reported to be investigating claims that army conscripts were forced to work as male prostitutes in St Petersburg."
-- Russian soldiers 'used for sex'; 13 February 2007; news.bbc.co.uk
-- Girl, 6, embodies Cambodia's sex industry - CNN.com By Dan Rivers; January 26, 2007; cnn.com
-- Sex Slaves: A Harsh Reality; shoutwire.com; available online 2-25-07
-- THE NIGHTMARE OF FOCA
12 year old girls were forced into sexual slavery; April 15, 2007
-- The 13-Year-Old Prostitute
Working Girl or Sex Slave? By Jessica Lustig; 2007
-- Incredibly, we are about to legalise modern domestic slavery again
by Madeleine Bunting; March 26, 2007
-- Modern-Day Slavery in America
Yes, There Are Slaves in the United States, and the Problem Is Getting Worse By RUSSELL GOLDMAN; March 26, 2007
-- The child slaves of Saudi Arabia; 27 March 2007
-- Slavery still exists in Mauritania - Yahoo! News By Pascal Fletcher; Mar 21, 2007
-- From Sex Workers to Restaurant Workers, the Global Slave Trade Is Growing By David Batsone, Sojourners; March 15, 2007.
-- Women for sale in the Gatwick slave auctions | News | This is London; 07.03.07
-- slavegirls on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (screen capture of text ad)
-- Soldier confirms wartime sex slavery | The Japan Times Online By HIROKO TABUCHI
The Associated Press; March 4, 2007
"Some 27 million men, women, and children are in unpaid servitude, the UN says – 200,000 of them in the US."
"In the US, 47 percent of trafficking is in the commercial sex business,"
-- New fight, old foe: Slavery By Jane Lampman; February 21, 2007
-- 5,000 child sex slaves in UK By Sophie Goodchild and Jonathan Thompson; 25 February 2007
-- Sex traffic: Danielle was 15 when she was sold into slavery in the UK By Sophie Goodchild and Kurt Barling; 25 February 2007
-- From the Mirage of a Middle-Class Life to the Slavery of Debt By Joshua Holland, AlterNet; March 24, 2007
-- How to Avoid Debt Slavery By Anonymous
-- Pakistan Girl Was to Be Poker Debt Bride By ZARAR KHAN; Feb 27, 2007; AP
-- A science fiction dream
-- or nightmare--
which may someday engulf us all
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