Posts Tagged ‘prostitution’

Get them off the human trafficking bus

Monday, November 16, 2009 0:48 By GSerrano

From McCann Kenya comes a visually-compelling and direct message to stop human trafficking, especially of children. The public awareness campaign through transit ads serve to spread the message quickly, and with a visual connect that is readily comprehensible, action-inducing, agitating, and graphic as any visual communication should be.
The transit ad campaign is the brainchild of [...]

Does “Compensated Dating” Equal Prostitution?

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 23:44 By MB

Many teenage girls in Hong Kong, China are indulging in what they call “compensated dating”, a form of prostitution. In the last two years the number has only increased. More number of school girls is indulging in this to earn money for their shopping and other luxuries. Sze, (name has been changed) started with [...]

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Kenya’s children: target of Western pedophiles

Friday, September 25, 2009 17:16 By GSerrano

Taking advantage of Kenya’s poverty and lame law enforcement, one of Africa’s most popular tourist destinations has been the haven of Western pedophiles that target Kenyan children for sexual abuse and exploitation.
A report from Channel 4 News shows footages of children, some as young as 12, in nightclubs in Mombasa. These children go to meet [...]

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North Korean women are sold as merchandise

Tuesday, August 25, 2009 5:40 By NARUTO

The dividing line with China, which extends along 1.400 kilometers, it is one of those most watched of the world, but, also, one of the most permeable and capitalist, in spite of the thousands of soldiers parked in their proximities, due to the tremendous economical differences between both the sides.
Smuggling of every type of goods, [...]

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Congolese mothers abandoned by their partners resort to commercial sex to earn a living

Saturday, August 15, 2009 15:00 By GSerrano

Some Congolese women went to Uganda to join their partners who served in the Uganda Peoples Defence Force (UPDF). They met the men while the UPDF operated in Congo. They were the wives, girlfriends, and concubines of the soldiers. Now left with many children, they have been ‘abandoned in districts surrounding UPDF barracks such as [...]

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Human Trafficking and People Smuggling: Transnational Crimes

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 22:19 By GSerrano

The fight against human trafficking was the subject of the very recent Third Bali Regional Ministerial Conference On People Smuggling, Trafficking In Persons and Related Transnational Crime, held on the Indonesian island of Bali and attended by delegates from over 60 countries.
The social malaise has reached unprecedented proportions over the recent years. Criminal syndicates involved [...]

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