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'Girls Can Come After You': Tech Moguls Risk Jail For Web Sex Trafficking
Victims of sex trafficking could sue U.S. websites used to sell their bodies online, experts said, as a new law signals a drive by Washington to clamp down on soaring internet sex slavery.
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Once A Sex Slave, 19-Year-Old Finds Freedom In Her 1-Room Mumbai Flat
Mumbai: On a workday morning in her one-room apartment on Mumbai’s outskirts, Sonika packed her lunch box, got dressed in a black shirt and blue jeans, ate a sago snack for breakfast and took a hurried selfie before rushing to catch the 8.45 am bus to work. Her morning routine seems little different to that of other working girls. But Sonika, 19,...
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Fewer Child Sex Workers In Mumbai Brothels, Underground Trade Still A Concern: Study
Mumbai: The number of children trafficked for sex in the red light districts of Mumbai has dropped sharply, activists said, as they raised concerns over the trade shifting underground to private lodges and residences. A study by the non-governmental International Justice Mission (IJM), Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Mumbai, mapped n...
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How This Enterprise Helps Former Sex Workers Take Charge Of Their Lives
Chennai: An Indian quilt and bag company which employs women trapped in the sex trade has appointed two former sex workers to its board, its co-founder said, calling the move a first in the industry. Sarah Lance, who helped to set up Sari Bari a decade ago to provide sex trafficking victims with alternative means of earning a living, said the comp...
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Dreams Turn To Sex Slave Nightmares For Nigeria's Trafficked Women
They arrive in their hundreds every month, their heads full of dreams of new lives in Europe. In reality, many of them are destined for years of sexual slavery.
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Surviving Sexual Slavery Victims Will Receive $90,000: Seoul
South Korea says surviving South Korean women who were forced into sexual slavery by Japan's military in World War II will be eligible to receive 100 million won (about $90,000) each from a foundation that will be funded by the Japanese government.
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South Korean President Pleads Support For 'Comfort Women' Deal
South Korean President Park Geun-Hye today urged the public to support her latest deal with Japan on wartime sex slavery as controversy grew over the agreement to settle the decades-long dispute.
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ISIS Ruling Aims To Settle Who Can Have Sex With Female Slaves
ISIS theologians have issued an extremely detailed ruling on when "owners" of women enslaved by the extremist group can have sex with them, in an apparent bid to curb what they called violations in the treatment of captured females.
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UN Commissioner Urges Japan's Shinzo Abe to Meet 'Comfort Women'
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights made an emotional plea today for victims of Japan's wartime sex slavery to have their suffering recognised, and urged the country's prime minister to meet with the former "comfort women".
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Top United Nations Rights Official Meets Former 'Comfort Women' in Seoul
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights met with three ageing "comfort women" on a visit to Seoul on Wednesday and promised to continue advocating on behalf of South Korean victims of Japan's wartime system of sex slavery.
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Sex Slavery Pushing Iraq Islamic State Victims To Suicide
The Islamic State jihadist group has abducted women and children from Iraq's Yazidi minority, distributed them as spoils of war and forced them into sexual slavery, driving some to suicide.
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UN Panel Tells Japan to Compensate 'Comfort Women'
A United Nations human rights agency is calling on Japan to guarantee independent investigations of wartime sex slavery and provide a public apology and compensation to the women who were victims.
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Documents Show Japan Complicit in WWII Sex Slavery: Activists
Activists said on Monday they had a trove of documents proving the Japanese military was complicit in the wartime system of sex slavery, despite nationalist quibbles over responsibility.
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Japan mulls revision of 'comfort women' apology
Japan will consider revising an apology for its wartime system of sex slavery, a top official said on Monday, a move that will draw fury in South Korea and beyond if the historic statement is watered down.
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Japan pulls back on denials of World War II sex slavery
Japan has acknowledged that it conducted only a limited investigation before claiming there was no official evidence that its imperial troops coerced Asian women into sexual slavery before and during World War II.
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'Girls Can Come After You': Tech Moguls Risk Jail For Web Sex Trafficking
Victims of sex trafficking could sue U.S. websites used to sell their bodies online, experts said, as a new law signals a drive by Washington to clamp down on soaring internet sex slavery.
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Once A Sex Slave, 19-Year-Old Finds Freedom In Her 1-Room Mumbai Flat
Mumbai: On a workday morning in her one-room apartment on Mumbai’s outskirts, Sonika packed her lunch box, got dressed in a black shirt and blue jeans, ate a sago snack for breakfast and took a hurried selfie before rushing to catch the 8.45 am bus to work. Her morning routine seems little different to that of other working girls. But Sonika, 19,...
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Fewer Child Sex Workers In Mumbai Brothels, Underground Trade Still A Concern: Study
Mumbai: The number of children trafficked for sex in the red light districts of Mumbai has dropped sharply, activists said, as they raised concerns over the trade shifting underground to private lodges and residences. A study by the non-governmental International Justice Mission (IJM), Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Mumbai, mapped n...
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How This Enterprise Helps Former Sex Workers Take Charge Of Their Lives
Chennai: An Indian quilt and bag company which employs women trapped in the sex trade has appointed two former sex workers to its board, its co-founder said, calling the move a first in the industry. Sarah Lance, who helped to set up Sari Bari a decade ago to provide sex trafficking victims with alternative means of earning a living, said the comp...
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Dreams Turn To Sex Slave Nightmares For Nigeria's Trafficked Women
They arrive in their hundreds every month, their heads full of dreams of new lives in Europe. In reality, many of them are destined for years of sexual slavery.
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Surviving Sexual Slavery Victims Will Receive $90,000: Seoul
South Korea says surviving South Korean women who were forced into sexual slavery by Japan's military in World War II will be eligible to receive 100 million won (about $90,000) each from a foundation that will be funded by the Japanese government.
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South Korean President Pleads Support For 'Comfort Women' Deal
South Korean President Park Geun-Hye today urged the public to support her latest deal with Japan on wartime sex slavery as controversy grew over the agreement to settle the decades-long dispute.
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ISIS Ruling Aims To Settle Who Can Have Sex With Female Slaves
ISIS theologians have issued an extremely detailed ruling on when "owners" of women enslaved by the extremist group can have sex with them, in an apparent bid to curb what they called violations in the treatment of captured females.
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UN Commissioner Urges Japan's Shinzo Abe to Meet 'Comfort Women'
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights made an emotional plea today for victims of Japan's wartime sex slavery to have their suffering recognised, and urged the country's prime minister to meet with the former "comfort women".
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Top United Nations Rights Official Meets Former 'Comfort Women' in Seoul
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights met with three ageing "comfort women" on a visit to Seoul on Wednesday and promised to continue advocating on behalf of South Korean victims of Japan's wartime system of sex slavery.
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Sex Slavery Pushing Iraq Islamic State Victims To Suicide
The Islamic State jihadist group has abducted women and children from Iraq's Yazidi minority, distributed them as spoils of war and forced them into sexual slavery, driving some to suicide.
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UN Panel Tells Japan to Compensate 'Comfort Women'
A United Nations human rights agency is calling on Japan to guarantee independent investigations of wartime sex slavery and provide a public apology and compensation to the women who were victims.
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Documents Show Japan Complicit in WWII Sex Slavery: Activists
Activists said on Monday they had a trove of documents proving the Japanese military was complicit in the wartime system of sex slavery, despite nationalist quibbles over responsibility.
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Japan mulls revision of 'comfort women' apology
Japan will consider revising an apology for its wartime system of sex slavery, a top official said on Monday, a move that will draw fury in South Korea and beyond if the historic statement is watered down.
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Japan pulls back on denials of World War II sex slavery
Japan has acknowledged that it conducted only a limited investigation before claiming there was no official evidence that its imperial troops coerced Asian women into sexual slavery before and during World War II.
