Engendering the evaluation of anti-trafficking policy: The Vietnamese National Action Programme against trafficking in women and children 2004-2010 (THE VNAP) [PDF]
, 2014 Human trafficking is a prominent global problem affecting some 27 million people worldwide and has social, developmental, and human rights implications.
Duong, Kim Anh
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Adipocyte Myoglobin Is a Determinant of Energy Expenditure and a Potential Target to Limit Obesity
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Myoglobin, known as a muscle oxygen‐carrying protein, is shown to play a key role in fat cells that burn energy. Loss of myoglobin reduces the body's ability to generate heat and increases obesity risk, while restoring it improves metabolism. The study identifies myoglobin as a regulator of fat burning and a potential target to enhance energy ...
Christian Strehlau +22 more
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Sex trafficking of Black women & girls [PDF]
, 2022 The public perception of sex trafficking victims and survivors often does not reflect the reality of who is actually trafficked in the U.S. This factsheet introduces the limited sex trafficking data that exists specifically related to Black women and ...
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Neuron‐derived MIF binds VCAM1 on gastric cancer cells and activates ERK/STAT3 signaling, leading to CXCL8 transcription and secretion. Tumor‐derived CXCL8 subsequently stimulates neuronal CXCR2 to enhance MIF production, establishing a self‐amplifying MIF–VCAM1–CXCL8 positive‐feedback loop that promotes perineural invasion, tumor progression, and ...
Xunjun Li +13 more
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Sex trafficking of girls and women : Evidence from Anantapur district, Andhra Pradesh [PDF]
A crucial gap in the trafficking literature from India is the dearth of primary data and micro studies that could be used for vulnerability mapping of the source areas and addressing the identified risk factors.
U. Vindhya, V. Swathi Dev
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Domestic sex trafficking in Ohio [PDF]
, 2012 "Protecting Ohio's Families ... Mike DeWine, Ohio Attorney General."; "August 8, 2012."[Report] -- Recommendation #1 [through] #7."This report provides information on domestic minor sex trafficking and domestic adult sex trafficking in Ohio including ...
Ohio Human Trafficking Commission. Research & Analysis Sub-Committee.
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Surveillance and Entanglement: How mandatory sex offender registration impacts criminalised survivors of human trafficking [PDF]
, 2020 This short article describes how some victims of human trafficking in the sex industry in the United States are prosecuted alongside traffickers and put on sex offender registries.
Goodmark, Leigh, Mogulescu, Kate
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The KIF6‐RBP Complex Orchestrates mRNA Transport Required for Sperm Flagellar Assembly
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Two homozygous deleterious KIF6 variants are identified in unrelated men with impaired sperm motility. Mouse models and multi‐omics analyses reveal that KIF6 cooperates with the RNA‐binding proteins FMRP and FXR1 to deliver mRNAs essential for sperm flagellar assembly, linking disrupted mRNA transport to reduced abundance of key structural and ...
Chunbo Xie +20 more
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The recovery experience of people who were sex trafficked: the thwarted journey towards goal pursuit
BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2019 Background In 2010, a shelter programme was established in the Netherlands to provide social and health services for trafficked people. This article describes how service users in this programme conceptualized and experienced their own process of ...
Roderik F. Viergever +4 more
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Lock up your daughters! Male activists, ‘patriotic domesticity’, and the fight against sex trafficking in England, 1880-1912 [PDF]
, 2015 In the 1880s, the phenomenon of sex trafficking entered popular consciousness in England following revelations of a trade in English minors to the licensed brothels of the near Continent.
Attwood, R.
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