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Human trafficking is a crime. To report in India, contact
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and/or Childline 1098 (national helpline)
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“As per a study on human trafficking, the state of Jharkhand has emerged as India’s trafficking hub with thousands of tribal women and girls being trafficked out of the state each year to Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and beyond [while] human traffickers are also involved in many cases of missing children.” – The Wire | Shakti Vahini | Tourism locations | Adivasi tribal bondage slavery trafficking (Safe search) >>
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Amia Srinivasan on the problem of sexual violence against women
The Oxford philosopher Amia Srinivasan, whom Ms. Gilbert quotes in the introduction to “Girl on Girl,” notes this in her 2021 essay “Talking to My Students About Porn”: “Does porn bear responsibility for the objectification of women, for the marginalization of women, for sexual violence against women? Yes, they said, yes to all of it.” In my own experience speaking to college students and young adults, they’re dismayed and discouraged by the role pornography has played in their sexual formation. In their eyes, it colors everything.
“I wanted to understand how a generation of young women came to believe that sex was our currency, our objectification was empowering,” Ms. Gilbert writes. “Why were we so easily persuaded of our own inadequacy? Who was setting the agenda?”
The thing is, we all know. Perhaps we should be so gauche — or brave — as to simply admit it.
Source: Christine Emba in “The delusion of porn’s harmlessness”, The New York Times (International Edition), 24 May 2025
URL: https://pressreader.com/article/281805699847043
Date Visited: 24 May 2025
71% of modern slavery victims are women and girls. With an estimated 40.3 million people victims of modern slavery and human trafficking, that’s a lot of girls around the world who are being exploited for someone else’s benefit, or treated like a commodity, unable to leave because of threats, violence, coercion, and abuse of power.
Read the full story, view the campaign video, join #FREEDOMFORGIRLS – commit to helping end human trafficking and modern slavery here: https://www.freedomunited.org/advocate/forgirls/
Native American women are some of the most vulnerable to sex trafficking in the United States
Native American women are some of the most vulnerable to sex trafficking in the United States according to Fronteras. | Read the entire article here >>
The National Congress of American Indians says Native Americans are one of the most vulnerable populations to sex trafficking because of the significant poverty rates, high numbers of runaway youth, and low levels of law enforcement.
One of the problems has been the lack of anti-trafficking laws on reservations. This year Navajo leaders uncovered cases of sex trafficking on their reservations, but they didn’t have a way to fight it. They have now passed a law against the crime and other tribes across the United States are following suit.
Lisa Heth from the Pathfinder Center, a refuge for human trafficking victims in South Dakota, says that cases of trafficking are severely underreported on reservations because victims fear reprisal. “They’re fearful of reporting it because of retaliation or that they’re going be blamed. In the past we know that women have come forward and they’ve even been blamed by their own family members,” […]
Source: WHY NATIVE AMERICANS ARE VULNERABLE TO SEX TRAFFICKING, December 7, 2017
URL: https://fronterasdesk.org/content/10912/native-americans-are-some-most-vulnerable-sex-trafficking
Accessed: 6 June 2020
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Human trafficking is a crime. To report in India, call
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