All Blog Posts Tagged 'pimps' (6)

The FBI and local law enforcement agencies rescued 79 minors during a three-day raid around the country, the agency announced.

Operation Cross Country VI targeted 57 cities nationwide, involved some 2,500…

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Nicholas D. Kristof

I WENT on a walk in Manhattan the other day with a young woman who once had to work these streets, hired out by eight pimps while she was just 16 and 17. She pointed out a McDonald’s where pimps sit while monitoring the girls outside, and a building where she had repeatedly been ordered online as if she were a pizza.…

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Hey everyone,

 

If you haven't seen the youtube 'real men dont buy girls' adverts then check them out.. DNA Foundation (Demi and ashton) produced these, and they are something to watch, download and send along to men and women..

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/DNAFoundation#p/u/9/JyjvL6uJl28

(CNN) -- Americans are right to get angry at the violence against women and girls in developing nations: the Congo rape camps, the widespread practices of female genital mutilation in West Africa and the infanticide of females in China.

Our disgust at the violence committed against women and girls is heightened by the culture of impunity that allows the perpetrators of these crimes to go free without condemnation or punishment. That culture also turns victims into criminals,…

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...Federal law enforcement considers Atlanta a hub for child prostitution

even after more than a decade of efforts to stamp it out. Advocates

contend at least 400 minors prostitute themselves in Georgia, mostly in

metro Atlanta, with many turning to this lifestyle at 14 or younger.

Pimps circumvent legal tactics by making the girls too loyal or too

afraid to testify. Officials debate whether these girls are victims of

sexual exploitation or… Continue

Today is Human Trafficking Awareness Day and President Obama recently proclaimed January as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Yet when we think about trafficking, we think about it happening to children from Asia, women from the Ukraine, domestic servants brought in from Africa and Central America. All of these examples are real.



But rarely we do associate trafficking and slavery with the girls and young women that we see on HBO specials like 'Hookers on the… Continue