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More Than Meets the Eye: The Immense Web of Human Trafficking and Its Vast Implications
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More Than Meets the Eye: The Immense Web of Human Trafficking and Its Vast Implications

ByAdam Zarnowski

“The existing social order is a swindle and its cherished beliefs mostly delusions.” – George Orwell  Human trafficking is an issue that takes many forms and typologies across the world and society. Traditionally, human trafficking is thought of as falling into one of two categories: sex trafficking, trafficking in persons for commercial sexual exploitation, or…

Girls’ enrollment drops at college and university levels
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Girls’ enrollment drops at college and university levels

ByEyes on Trafficking News

BANGLADESH Women’s education in Bangladesh has been a success story so far. Girls have continued to outnumber boys at primary and secondary levels, accounting for more than half of school enrolment. However, the situation does not remain the same once it’s time for college and university. According to the latest government data, girls’ enrolment starts…

Movie Review: The Woman King: Daring documentation of a dark era
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Movie Review: The Woman King: Daring documentation of a dark era

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Movie title: The Woman King Release Date: 16 September 2022 Running time: 2 hours 14 minutes. Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood Cast: Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch, Sheila Atim, John Boyega, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Adrienne Warren, Jayme Lawson, Masali Baduza, Angélique Kidjo, Jimmy Odukoya, Thando Dlomo, Jordan Bolger, Zozibini Tunzi, Makgotso M, Siv Ngesi The devastating…

India Among Countries With High Incidence Of Forced Marriage Of Minors, Reveals UN Report
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India Among Countries With High Incidence Of Forced Marriage Of Minors, Reveals UN Report

ByEyes on Trafficking News

As per the categorisations by the United Nations for Human Rights (UNHR), although modern slavery is not defined by law, it is used as an umbrella term to cover practices such as forced labour, debt bondage, forced marriage, human trafficking, sale of children, sexual slavery, and so on. Studying the prevalence of modern slavery globally,…

Rajasthan man buys child bride for ₹3 lakh, tortures her for not conceiving
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Rajasthan man buys child bride for ₹3 lakh, tortures her for not conceiving

ByEyes on Trafficking News

jaipur news – Updated on Sep 16, 2022 06:43 PM IST The girl told the Jaipur Police that she was repeatedly raped by the man who bought her for marriage last December and harassed her because she hadn’t conceived. By Sachin Saini, Jaipur A 14-year-old girl, sold by her mother’s live-in partner in Rajasthan’s Dholpur for…

The Problem of Statistics in Human Trafficking and the Average Age of Entry into Sex Trafficking
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The Problem of Statistics in Human Trafficking and the Average Age of Entry into Sex Trafficking

ByAdam Zarnowski

Editor’s note: Our Human Trafficking Essentials course promotes the average age of entry into sex trafficking as 17, based upon the below research. The below makes clear there are no studies that demonstrate that age in a truly measurable manner. Our materials make clear that the statistics in the human trafficking field are difficult to…

Child brides in India – DAWN.COM
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Child brides in India – DAWN.COM

ByEyes on Trafficking News

IT is unfortunate that the country continues to lose nearly 2m young women, who could have gone on to become brilliant doctors, engineers, lawyers, professors, etc, to the rigours of marriage and childbearing before they can even be legally classified as adults. It appears that our patriarchal mores, which attach far greater importance to women’s…

More Than 50 Million People Globally Are Now Trapped in Modern Slavery: ILO Report
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More Than 50 Million People Globally Are Now Trapped in Modern Slavery: ILO Report

ByEyes on Trafficking News

“Forced me to clean or else she will kill me.“ “I had to leave the situation or be killed. I know I can never return home because I am considered a dead person for breaking the culture and bringing shame to the families. According to my father, I am dead.“ The first account voices the…

Parents marry off teenage girls in Ankole for cattle – Daily Monitor
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Parents marry off teenage girls in Ankole for cattle – Daily Monitor

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Parents are marrying off their daughters at a young age in exchange for bride price in Ankole Sub-region, Monitor has established. The bride price usually ranges between 10 to 12 cows and an agreed sum of money. The situation was made worse during the two Covid-19-induced lockdowns in March 2020 and June 2021 that saw…

'IS bride' Shamima Begum was smuggled into Syria by Canadian spy, claims book – WION
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'IS bride' Shamima Begum was smuggled into Syria by Canadian spy, claims book – WION

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Shamima Begum who had fled to Syria in 2015 to join the Islamic State(IS) was allegedly smuggled into the country by an intelligence agent, a new book by journalist Richard Kerbaj has claimed. The book alleged the double agent took Shamima, Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase from Turkey to Syria. He was reportedly arrested in…