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Making the harm visible: global sexual exploitation of women and girls speaking out and providing services

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This is a ground breaking collection written by survivors, activists, and service providers on the global sexual exploitation of women and girls. The forty-four pieces from Asia, Europe, South America, the Caribbean, North America and Middle East offer personal, insightful and challenging perspectives on sexual violence and prostitution. The contributors to this body of work offer an impressive and often painful body of evidence of the harm caused by sexual exploitation and violence. The trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation is a high-profit, low-risk trade for those who organize it, but it is detrimental to the millions of women and children exploited in slavery-like conditions in the global sex industry. This trade, which UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called an outrage and a worldwide plague2 , is conducted throughout the world with near impunity, in many cases carrying penalties far less severe than drug trafficking3 . Though people often associate it with Eastern Europe or Asia, there is mounting evidence that the trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation, with its concomitant human rights abuses and health consequences, is a significant problem in the Americas—one that promises to worsen unless collective action is taken. This paper is an introduction to trafficking in the Americas4 , offering a brief discussion of relevant issues. Sex trafficking is more than an issue of crime or migration; it is an issue of human rights, a manifestation of persistent gender inequality and the subordinate status of women globally. Around the world most trafficked people are women and children of low socio-economic status, and the primary trafficking The demand aspect of sex trafficking remains the least visible. When demand is not analyzed, or is mentioned rarely, it becomes easy to forget that people are trafficked into the sex industry to satisfy not the demand of the traffickers, but that of the purchasers, who are mostly men. The insatiable demand for women and children in massage parlors, strip shows, escort services, brothels, pornography and street prostitution is what makes the trafficking trade so lucrative.

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KP.IV HUG m

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Kingston : Coalition Against Trafficking in Women., 1999

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349 hlm.; 21 cm

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English

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KP.IV

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Kekerasan terhadap perempuan
Kekerasan seksual
Eksploitasi seksual

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