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On AlterNet: trafficking

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "trafficking"

Criminalizing Sex Work to Combat Trafficking: Rhode Island Considers the Wrong Solution to the Wrong Problem

Criminalizing Sex Work to Combat Trafficking: Rhode Island Considers the Wrong Solution to the Wrong Problem

Andrea Ritchie, RH Reality Check. September 4, 2009.
The State of Rhode Island seems poised to take a significant step backwards on its legal treatment of both sex work and trafficking.

FBI Busts Up Child Prostitution Rings ... But Rehabilitation Funds Are Running Out

FBI Busts Up Child Prostitution Rings ... But Rehabilitation Funds Are Running Out

Lisa Derrick, La Figa AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. February 24, 2009.
Here's one reason to pay your taxes.

Anti-Sex League Favors

Anti-Sex League Favors "Purity" Over Women's Health

Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check. January 28, 2009.
Hostility to women perceived as "sexually loose" cripples efforts to protect women's rights and health.

Pushing Boulders and Sleeping on Cardboard: A Story of Trafficking in Iraq

Pushing Boulders and Sleeping on Cardboard: A Story of Trafficking in Iraq

David Phinney, AlterNet. June 20, 2007.
When Ramil Autencio arrived in Iraq, he had the promise of a two-year job, making $450 a month to better life for himself and his family in the Philippines. What he got was a wartime nightmare.

Child Pornography and Human Trafficking: Cancun's Dark Side

Child Pornography and Human Trafficking: Cancun's Dark Side

Heather Gehlert, AlterNet. May 3, 2007.
A conversation with human rights activist Lydia Cacho Ribeiro on the coastal city's violence and abuses -- and her lifelong mission to combat them.

Asian Workers Trafficked to Build U.S. Embassy in Baghdad

Asian Workers Trafficked to Build U.S. Embassy in Baghdad

David Phinney, CorpWatch. October 26, 2006.
The State Department quietly awarded a corrupt Kuwaiti company a $592-million contract to build the embassy in Iraq.