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Every day there are millions of people who are raped or sexually molested as part of a commercial transaction. Every day there are many more millions who pay for these rapes and sexual assaults, and hundreds of thousands of people who facilitate it and profit from it...The conservative estimates suggest that the global business of forced prostitution generates revenues of $18.5 billion in developing world countries.
— Oct 29, 2016 08:41AM
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A smaller proportion of humanity is held in slavery than ever before...but, in absolute numbers, the world has never seen so many people in slavery at one time...Historians tell us that about 11 million slaves were extracted from Africa during four hundred years of the trans-Atlantic slave trade--which is as little as half of the number of people held in slavery in our world this year.
— Oct 30, 2016 03:23PM
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The global business of forced prostitution that victimizes 4 to 11 million people a year surely involves hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people profiting every year.
It is a hard but authentic reality that sexual violence is a very significant business in our world. Indeed, the conservative estimates suggest that...forced prostitution generates revenues of $18.5 billion in developing world countries.
— Oct 20, 2016 03:08PM
It is a hard but authentic reality that sexual violence is a very significant business in our world. Indeed, the conservative estimates suggest that...forced prostitution generates revenues of $18.5 billion in developing world countries.
Spencer Brown
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"The injustice [is] inflicted on us, [and] we have to somehow accept it," Mariamma told me. "I don't know anything about the law. The cruelty--we have to take it--because we don't have money or power. The police will believe Mr. V. and not us because we are slaves to Mr. V. What he says, the police will believe...We don't look good in their eyes--if we give money, they look--otherwise no."
— Oct 12, 2016 09:00AM
Spencer Brown
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"The injustice [is] inflicted on us, [and] we have to somehow accept it," Mariamma told me. "I don't know anything about the law. The cruelty--we have to take it--because we don't have money or power. The police will believe Mr. V. and not us because we are slaves to Mr. V. What he says, the police will believe...We don't look good in their eyes--if we give money, they look--otherwise no."
— Oct 12, 2016 08:54AM
