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Free the Captives in the Wall Street Journal: Human Trafficking and Statistics

Posted by Julie Waters on Monday, June 21, 2010, In : International Trafficking

The Elusive Link Between Sex Trafficking and Sporting Events

By Carl Bialik

http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/the-elusive-link-between-sex-trafficking-and-sporting-events-952/

My print column this week examines widely reported claims that 40,000 sex workers will be trafficked into South Africa for the World Cup. Similar claims surfaced before the 2006 Cup in Germany.

“It is the kind of number which has no identifiable source and no transparent methodology,” said Patrick Belser, a senior...

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