Sex trafficking: the fight to recover India’s stolen children

 

The Sundarbans is the world’s largest mangrove forest and one of the most climate vulnerable locations on the planet. Climate change has taken an enormous toll on the rainforest in recent years, repeatedly uprooting families and decimating the incomes of residents who have traditionally relied heavily on agriculture and fishing for their livelihoods.

Now, repeated natural disasters and environmental changes to the region have created a highly vulnerable population increasingly at risk of participating in or becoming victims of child trafficking.

Zephaniah Trevino Faces 40 years for Charges Incurred While Allegedly Being Sold for Sex (video)

 

This teen faces 40 years in prison for charges she incurred while allegedly being sold for sex at the scene of a crime (warning: distressing themes).

Inside the wicked saga of Jeffrey Epstein: the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell

There was little Jeffrey Epstein wouldn’t do to satisfy his lust for young women and girls. It included spending millions of dollars masterminding a worldwide sex-trafficking operation. Countless innocent lives were destroyed. A year ago Epstein was arrested and a month later he died in custody. Investigators though refused to let this scandal go to the grave with him.

Surviving Sex Trafficking

Sex trafficking is one of the most misunderstood criminal enterprises in the US. In popular belief; women are forced across borders and held against their will. But a new picture shows eight in ten victims are US citizens. Many are enslaved through drugs and like old-world slavery, are branded as property. Often confused as valid sex workers, Columbus, Ohio is helping to free victims and transform their marks of "ownership"

The North Korean women who had to escape twice

Despite the thaw in relations between north and south Korea, people are still risking their lives to flee the regime. Most escape via China but they face huge risks where they can be sent back if caught. Women are also trafficked from North Korea to China where they think they will get a job and earn some money but find themselves trapped for years on end.

This anti-sex trafficking law could end internet freedom

President Trump recently signed into law a set of controversial bills intended to make it easier to cut down on illegal sex trafficking online. Both bills — the House bill known as FOSTA, the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, and the Senate bill, SESTA, the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act — have been hailed by advocates as a victory for sex trafficking victims. But the new law pokes a huge hole in what is generally seen as one of the most important pieces of internet legislation ever created, Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act. Without this clause exempting websites from liability for the actions of their users, most websites simply couldn’t afford to exist Internet freedom advocates argue that this could lead to further eroding of an open internet — and puts sex workers on the front line.

The New Jihadi John: Torturer Sexslaver (video)

Jihadi John after being turned into roadkill has been replaced by yet another British citizen Siddhartha Dhar unlike the protagonist in the Herman Hesse novel the enlightenment sought wasn't for the betterment of self but to further the cause of terrorism. In the above interview the young Yazidi women describes what life was like after being captured along with her entire family by ISIS. She was turned into a sex slave eventually giving birth to child after being sexually abused by her captors.

Truth or Lies: Somaly Mam

101 East talks to Cambodia's fallen anti-sex trafficking icon as she fights to restore her reputation and save her NGO.


Cambodia's anti-sex trafficking icon, Somaly Mam, has been accused of being a fraud.

Named one of Time Magazine's Most Influential People, Somaly generated millions of dollars and celebrity backing for her work against sexual slavery.

But following reports that she lied about her past, the foundation bearing her name closed.

Now, she is fighting to rebuild her reputation and to look after the girls and women in her care.