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“Human Trafficking Is Modern Day Slavery”: Rev. Margaret Fowler, Sex Work and Trafficking

open access: yesReligions, 2023
The late Rev. Margaret Fowler, United Church Minister, was a key supporter of LGBTQ rights and a vocal advocate against human trafficking in Jamaica. As the founder of the Theodora Project, Rev. Fowler served many persons coerced into sex work or subject
Anna K. Perkins, Dane C. Lewis
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Chronicles of civil society in Assam and Meghalaya: converting girls and women from «bad to good»

open access: yesEx Aequo: Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos sobre as Mulheres, 2021
This paper examines the standpoints and the approach of the stakeholders working towards combatting sex trafficking in Assam and Meghalaya, India, with the aim of understanding whether the selected stakeholders uphold a gender-sensitive conceptualization,
Barnali Das, Rekha Pande
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Combating Sex Trafficking: The Role of the Hotel—Moral and Ethical Questions

open access: yesReligions, 2022
Legitimate companies are key facilitators of human trafficking. These corporate facilitators include not only websites providing advertisements for commercial sex services but also hotels and motels.
Chu-Chuan Jeng   +3 more
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“These Girls Never Give Statements”: Anti-Trafficking Interventions and “Victim-Witness Testimony” in India

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2022
Framing sex trafficking as primarily a law enforcement and criminal justice issue, the U.S. State Department funds global South NGOs to work with the Indian legal system to strengthen prosecutions of sex trafficking cases. Though rescuing sex workers and
Vibhuti Ramachandran
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Trafficking in women in Serbia and neighboring countries: Scope, characteristics and causes [PDF]

open access: yesTemida, 2002
In this paper scope, characteristics and causes of sex trafficking in women are analyzed. The analysis considers trafficking in women in Serbia and in its direct and indirect surrounding.
Nikolić-Ristanović Vesna Ž.
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Identification of skin signs in human-trafficking survivors

open access: yesInternational Journal of Women's Dermatology, 2021
Human-trafficking survivors suffer significant physical, mental, and social health consequences, prompting them to seek health care services. Although there is research regarding identification protocols for human-trafficking victims, there is no ...
Raaga Rambhatla, BA   +7 more
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Sex Trafficking at the Border: An Exploration of Anti-Trafficking Efforts in the Pacific Northwest

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2019
The prevalence of human trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labour in the Pacific Northwest has been well documented in recent years.
Alexander Norfolk, Helga Hallgrimsdottir
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Reframing human trafficking awareness campaigns in the United States: goals, audience, and content

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2023
IntroductionHuman trafficking (HT) awareness campaigns can educate the public and specific professional figures about this crime and ways to prevent it.
Elena Savoia   +6 more
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Screening for Victims of Sex Trafficking in the Emergency Department: A Pilot Program

open access: yesWestern Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2017
Introduction: Estimates suggest that hundreds of thousands of sex trafficking victims live in the United States. Several screening tools for healthcare professionals to identify sex trafficking victims have been proposed, but the effectiveness of these ...
Bryn E. Mumma   +5 more
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Understanding the motivations and activities of transnational advocacy networks against child sex trafficking in the Mekong Subregion: The value of cosmopolitan globalisation theory

open access: yesCosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
Child sex trafficking has become one of the most highly publicised social issues of our time and, due to its global nature, transnational anti-trafficking advocacy networks are well placed and central to lead campaigns against it.
Deanna Davy
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