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ISSUE
RELATED ORGANIZATIONS
Captive
Daughters:
American non-profit organization
page is dedicated to end the sex trafficking of girls,
especially in Asia.
Coalition
Against Trafficking in Women:
Includes publications, statements, testimony, and
contact information on issues related to sexual slavery
and international trafficking in women.
Global
Alliance Against Traffic in Women:
Non-governmental organization is based in Thailand.
Its aim is to ensure that the human rights of women are
taken into consideration by authorities and agencies working
against the global traffic in women.
US
Government's Global Fight Against Trafficking
Part of the President's Intragency Council on Women.
Works to further women's progress through public education.
US
State Department, Office of the Senior Coordinator for
International Women's Rights Issues:
Promotes the human rights of women within American foreign
policy. The site includes links to information on several
international law related subjects including Trafficking
in Women and Girls, Beijing Platform for Action, Women
2000: Beijing Plus Five, and America's Commitment reports.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
AND PUBLICATION LINKS:
Human Rights Watch, A Modern Form of Slavery: Trafficking
of Burmese Women and Girls into Brothels in Thailand (New
York: Human Rights Watch, 1993)
Human Rights Watch, Rape for Profit: Trafficking of Nepali
Girls and Women to India's Brothels (New York: Human Rights
Watch, 1995)
International Commission of Jurists, Comfort Women: An
Unfinished Ordeal (Geneva: I.C.J., 1994)
Japan Federation of Bar Associations, Recommendations
on the Issue of "Comfort Women" (Tokyo: Japan
Federation of Bar Associations, 1995)
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Trafficking is the transportation of persons by others using some form
of violence or dominant position for the purpose of exploiting them sexually
or economically for the advantage of the traffickers. Trafficking in women
is a growing industry of exploitation and humiliation of women and children
around the world. Women and girls from poor countries, refugees, and women
of low social standing are most vulnerable because usually they are willing
to migrate to richer countries to escape from extreme poverty in order
to support their families. Other women migrate looking to break out of
a circle of domestic violence or an incident of rape, which in many traditional
societies bring "dishonor" to the family.
Many of the women are openly recruited and tricked into working for prostitution,
as domestic servants, in forced labor, servile marriages, sex tourism,
pornography, and begging. Others are kidnapped or sold by relatives. They
are victims of modern day slavery, forced to work as prostitutes, deprived
of food and medical care, suffering mental and physical abuse, their movements
restricted and controlled.
Most of the women are from South East Asia, South Asia, Latin America,
Africa, and Eastern Europe, but trafficking is a global problem—victims,
markets, and traffickers can be found worldwide.
Source: About.com, Unicef, Amnesty International
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