The group that helped kick "erotic services" off Craigslist is now going after Village Voice Media's Backpage.com for hosting child sex-trafficking ad — and they want a crackdown before the Super Bowl, traditionally sex trafficking's biggest weekend.
[Tel Aviv, October 19: A woman stands in a store window at a shopping mall with price tags on her hand. The store, opened for a day, was used to raise awareness of the trafficking of women. Image via Getty.]
Dana Popp's amazing photographic series, "Not Natasha," of Eastern-European sex workers, is as wrenching as it is beautiful, an eloquent testimonial both to a horrible reality and human resilience. (Although not graphic, link contains images of cutting and underage girls.)
• New evidence has linked Joran Van der Sloot with the disappearance of two girls from Thailand. Van der Sloot was allegedly involved with a sex trafficking ring, where he recruited a dozen young Thai woman.
• According to a study, two thirds of British women are totally bored with their lives. Perhaps more importantly, 7 out of 10 women are "fed up with being broke."
There's a first time for everything: the US State Department's annual report on human trafficking has included a rating for the United States. "We believe it is important to keep the spotlight on ourselves," explained Hillary Clinton. [UPI]
A new book about Eva Braun says she was "no dumb blonde." "People have always seen her as just the pleasant woman who fell in love with a monster, but she actually played an important role in Hitler's inner circle."
An international study on why men visit prostitutes revealed some disturbing attitudes about sex trafficking, rape, and the difference between prostitutes and "real women."
Oprah dedicated today's show to a star-studded discussion of the issues facing women around the world. Inviting Nicholas Kristof and his wife and co-author, Sheryl WuDunn to discuss their book Half the Sky, the conversation was both enlightening and frustrating.
• Sad, sad news: Going Rogue beat Hillary Clinton's memoir in sales with 700,000 to Clinton's 600,000. However, the awesome Secretary of State received a much bigger advance of $8 mil, while Palin was only offered five. •
Out of the 255 trafficked sex workers rescued in the UK between 2006 and 2008, a shocking 166 of them have "vanished." Although the missing women refused government aid, they may have been "far too frightened" to accept help. [Telegraph]
Around two years ago, Alissa Moore (left), now 24, and Diana Mao (right), now 27, started the Nomi Network, an anti-trafficking organization that trains former sex workers in Cambodia for new careers.
[Bangkok, August 19. Image via Getty]
[Washington, D.C., June 16. Image via Getty]
In Glamour, a popular fashion blogger admits to being a mail-order bride. Why does a feel-good story leave us feeling so uneasy?
Anti-human-trafficking organization Change.org has convinced Diners Club to stop offering its payment plan for mail-order brides. The credit card company had allowed men to pay $167 a month for a mail-order bride through a Vietnamese company. [Global Voices Online]
A man in Greenfield, CA was arrested Sunday on the suspicion of human trafficking. Police say that he tried to sell his own daughter.
Shyima Hall was only 10 years old when she was taken from her home in Northern Egypt and brought to work as a domestic slave in Irvine, California.
