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Trafficking “Trafficking in human beings is now the third-largest moneymaking venture in the world, after illegal weapons and drugs. In fact, the United Nations estimates that the trade nets organized crime more than $12 billion a year” (Victor Malarek The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade). According to a CIA report, 700,000 to 2 million women and children worldwide are victimized by traffickers each year. The UN estimates that around 4 million people a year are now traded against their will to work in some form of slavery. As many as 50,000 women and children from Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe are brought to the U.S. under false pretenses each year and forced to work as prostitutes, abused laborers or servants (Joel Brinkley NYT citing CIA report).
Resources: IAST
Request from: Sign up for a regular update on trafficking by e-mail or to receive the IAST Report dedicated to discussion of news and issues regarding sexual trafficking and commercial exploitation. Rescue and Restore victims of Human Trafficking: www.acf.hhs.gov/trafficking/index.html.hhs.gov/trafficking This site offers tool kits for those in health, social and law enforcement to identity, understand, communicate with and seek help for victims of trafficking.
Other Resources: http://www.iast.net/ Farley,
Melissa, PhD and Howard
Barkan, Dr PH. “Prostitution, Violence, and
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Farley, Melissa, Isin Baral, Merab Kiremire and Ufuk Sezgin. “Prostitution in Five Countries: Violence and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.” Feminism & Psychology Vol. 8(4) (1998): 405-426. Hughes, Donna. “Would Legalizing Prostitution Curb the Trafficking of Women? No: Legalization Would Legitimize Abuse.” Transitions – Changes in Post-Communist Societies Vol. 5:1 (January 1998) Available at www.uri.edu Westwood, David. “Child Trafficking in Asia.” Child Rights & The UK: Promoting the Convention on the Rights of the Child World-Wide (World Vision Briefing Paper No. 4 November 1998). Wynter, Sarah. “WHISPER: Women Hurt in Systems of Prostitution Engaged in Revolt,” July 1986.
Books: Adams, Carol J. Violence Against Women and Children: A Christian Theological Sourcebook. New York:Continuum, 1998. Bales,
Kevin. Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy. Brock, Rita Nakashima and Susan Brooks Thistlewaite. Casting Stones:Prostitution and Liberation in Asia and the United States. Minneapolis:Fortress Press, 1996. D’Cunha, Jean. The Legalization of Prostitution. Bangalore: Wordmakers, 1991. Farley (Ed.), Melissa. Prostitution, trafficking and traumatic stress. (2003). New York: The Haworth Press. Kilbourn, Phyllis, and Marjorie McDermid, ed. Sexually Exploited Children: Working to Protect and Heal. Monrovia: MARC, 1998. Malarek,Victor “The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade”
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