Return to India: From Children's Songs to Trafficker's Woes

Posted by: Taryn on 5/18/2012 | 0 Comments
There is a large mafia element in India’s trafficking. A common scenario is that mafia scouts look for poor families with young daughters, befriend the father and offer him small loans to keep his family from starvation…until one day they call the loan and take the daughter as payment.
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Unavoidable Destiny | The “bottom girl” - victim or criminal?

Posted by: Clare on 5/4/2012 | 0 Comments
The victim becomes a criminal in the blink of an eye.  The bottom girl will defend the actions of her pimp no matter what it cost.
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Back to Our Beginning: Rampant Sex Tourism in Jamaica Compromises Youth Safety

Posted by: Clare on 5/4/2012 | 0 Comments
In our 2007 report on sex trafficking markets around the world, DEMAND, sex tourism was identified as the major driving force for sex trafficking in Jamaica. Five years later, as we visit our partners in Negril, Jamaica we see not much has changed. Young girls receiving residential services at our partner’s safe house came to Negril from all over the island. The reason: Negril is a major tourist destination and it is believed to be a place where Jamaicans can make money. Unfortunately, traffickers and facilitators also go Negril to make money, by exploiting young girls and boys through the commercial sex trade.


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Back to Our Beginning: Montego Bay, Jamaica

Posted by: Clare on 4/24/2012 | 0 Comments

“We call it a different name, we call it survival.”

In one simple sentence our partner in Montego Bay, Jamaica defined the challenge to combating sex trafficking in the country. With the widespread prevalence of poverty and sexual abuse, buyers and traffickers are eager to exploit Jamaican youth with offers of provision and protection.

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Recent Secret Service Scandal Raises Awareness of Sex Tourism

Posted by: Clare on 4/18/2012 | 0 Comments

Recently thrust into the media due to the less-than-honorable actions of some members of President Obama’s Secret Service team, sex tourism has risen to the attention of the global community. Sex tourism, defined as traveling to a domestic or international location with the purpose of purchasing sex, has become a multi-billion dollar industry with some seriously questionable repercussions.

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Unavoidable Destiny | The Reality of the “Bottom Girl” Part 2

Posted by: Clare on 3/30/2012 | 0 Comments
Read the truth about the bottom girl in detail.  She is given authority and power but it comes with consequences.
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Unavoidable Destiny | The Reality of the “Bottom Girl” Part I

Posted by: Clare on 3/23/2012 | 0 Comments
Language, norms and roles are some of the basic elements of culture. The “life” or the “game” is the subculture of sex trafficking. Within this subculture, prostitution is one of the obvious norms and the language would not be understood by someone outside of this culture.
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Unavoidable Destiny | Introducing Shamere McKenzie

Posted by: Clare on 3/15/2012 | 1 Comment
Shamere McKenzie once believed her hopes of becoming an attorney were shattered. However, as the Policy Assistant at Shared Hope International she is now empowered to pick up the broken pieces and is determined to be an attorney...

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A Rescuer Redeemed | Ari's Story

Posted by: Clare on 3/13/2012 | 0 Comments
Ari’s story begins in Secundrabad, Andhra Pradesh. As an infant, her mother ran from her unfaithful husband and took Ari to live on the streets of Pune, surviving only by begging at the railway station. When Ari was five years old, tragedy struck as the hard street life claimed her mother, leaving Ari alone and desperate...
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"The Life": What Circumstances Walked Leah and her Sister into this Living Terror?

Posted by: Clare on 2/8/2012 | 0 Comments
She was just 12 years old when she was led into "the life" by her 14-year-old half-sister.  After several horrible weeks, she was rescued by police officers -- they found her sister in a hotel room, engaged in a sex act with a man, with Leah naked and crouched in a corner, crying hysterically.
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