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Trafficked
Youth Radio covered the issue of human trafficking into the sex trade, a problem prevalent in Oakland. Their coverage focused on the perspectives of the trafficked teenagers.The story "pieces together what life is like for girls who are kidnapped or ensnared by pimps -- and how law enforcement criminalizes juvenile victims, arresting them three times as often as the traffickers who exploit them."
Tags: prostitution; human trafficking; kidnapping; Youth and Family Services; Oakland, California; sex trade
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A Crime So Monstrous
"Skinner digs deep to find slaves, slave traders and slave masters in the frontlines of the third world war zones, in rotting urban ghettos, even in suburban America."
Tags: third world; modern slavery; human trafficking; sex trade; debt-bondage;
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Dateline NBC: Children for Sale
The documentary followed up on a previous investigation into the child sex trade in Cambodia. Five years later, journalists examined the impact their investigation had had on the trade as a whole and in the lives of four girls who had been rescued in an undercover operation highlighted in the original report.
Tags: sex trade; slavery; Cambodia; human rights; child abuse; brothel; undercover
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The Killing Fields
An investigation on murders of women with records of prostitution reviewed hundreds of homicide records and unclassified deaths, showing that more than eighty percent of the murders remain unsolved.
Tags: sex trade; strangling; hooker; trick; DNA; cold case; slaying; brothel; adult entertainment; red light district;
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Children for Sale
Dateline investigated the child sex trade in Cambodia. The story led to the prosecution of a Canadian man for purchasing sex with children there. The investigative team worked with a human rights group whose sting operation led to the arrest of pimps and the rescue of three dozen girls.
Tags: sex trade; Cambodia; sex slavery; sex abuse; pedophilia; prostitution; forced prostitution
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Children for Sale
Dateline teams up with the International Justice Mission, a human rights group, to investigate the business of selling children for sex. They focus on Cambodia where many sexual predators from around the world come to buy young children. Victims are interviewed as well as adult exploiters of children and various political figures comment on the problem.
Tags: Child sex trade; human trafficking; international human rights; US Aid
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Slavery of the Brothel
An extensive account of the growing sex slave trade in the Balkans -- particularly Kosovo. "A virulent Mafia business is thriving in postwar Kosovo: the $7 to $12 billion traffic in Eastern European women lured by promises of work, then forced into prostitution. Despite international efforts, sex slave traders have been nearly impossible to prosecute, thanks to corruption, local laws, and the victims' fear of testifying. Tracing the path of one young Moldovan woman, Sebastian Junger conducts his own investigation of a vicious cycle that traps as many as 200,000 women a year."
Tags: sex; sex slavery; slavery; brothel; prostitution; prostitute; hooker; strip; strip club; sexual abuse; mafia; organized crime; balkans; kosovo; serbia; moldova; bulgaria
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Selling Atlanta's Children
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution explains why runaway girls who work as prostitutes in Atlanta are often jailed while their adult pimps go free. The root of the problem is a lack of children's programs in Georgia.
Tags: prostitution; Atlanta; Georgia; children; girls; sex trade; pimps
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Sex Slaves and the U.S. Military
An Army Times investigation revealed that U.S. servicemen are the main economic engine driving the international sex trade in Korea. The number of women imported to work in bars and brothels in Korea has been soaring and most of their customers are members of the U.S. military
Tags: sex slaves; Korea; U.S military; brothels; international sex trade; sex trafficking; prostitution; South Korea; American soldiers
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Dirty Little Secret
Reader's Digest looks into the sex slave trade that has "exploded across the globe during the past decade, and inevitably . . . has reached the United States." More disturbing are the "estimates of women and children smuggled into the United States run as high as 50,000 a year, and many are forced into the sex industry." Reader's Digest reports on two specific cases of young girls promised good jobs in the United States and then forced into prostitution once here. Fortunately, a bill signed by President Clinton in October, "allows for life imprisonment for those convicted of trafficking children into the United States for purposes of illegal sex." Despite harsher punishments, "the victims of this cruel trade can be rescued, but their lives can never be fully restored."
Tags: prostitution; Immigration and Naturalization Service; violence; crime; children; kidnappings; sex industry; illegal aliens