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New U.K. Study: One in Ten Women in Prostitution Are Slaves

Posted by Free the Captives on Friday, August 20, 2010, In : International Trafficking

http://humantrafficking.change.org/blog/view/new_uk_study_one_in_ten_women_in_prostitution_are_slaves
by Amanda Kloer

An explosive new report out of the U.K. has estimated that at least one in ten women in prostitution in the country are victims of human trafficking. It also found that at least 15% of migrant women in prostitution are forced or coerced into the trade and up to 40% of them may be exploited just shy of slavery. These findings could help blow the lid off the notion t...
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Revealed: The horrific trade in British children for sex

Posted by Free the Captives on Sunday, August 15, 2010, In : International Trafficking

By Emily Dugan

Sunday, 15 August 2010

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/revealed-the-horrific-trade-in-british-children-for-sex-2053047.html

Posing for her first school photograph, Joanne was like any other girl at the age of five. She loved drawing and painting, and her favourite game was to play hide-and-seek in the woods near her home in Leeds with her five siblings. As she grew, Joanne liked to hang around, chatting and laughing with frien...

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