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The Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation |
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About the Factbook |
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Contents |
Asia
Europe
Oceania
Africa
Middle East
Central America
& the Caribbean
South America
North America |
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| About the Factbook |
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The Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation was compiled from media,
non-governmental organization and government reports. It is an initial effort
to collect facts, statistics and known cases on global sexual exploitation.
Information is organized into four categories:
- Trafficking,
- Prostitution,
- Pornography, and
- Organized and Institutionalized
Sexual Exploitation
and Violence.
Sources were not contacted to verify information. Close examination will reveal
that there are contradictions in information depending on the sources of information
(ex: how many women are in prostitution in Thailand). All statistics are reported
with no attempt to evaluate which numbers are more likely to be accurate. In fact,
the exact numbers in many cases are not known and estimates come from different sources
which use different methods to determine what they report.
We hope these facts will assist people to recognize the harm caused throughout the world
by sexual violence and exploitation and catalyze action against this violence agianst women.
This project was made possible with the support of the College of Arts and Sciences,
University of Rhode Island and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), Norway.
If you use this information in your work, please reference this factbook-- The Factbook on
Global Sexual Exploitation, Donna M. Hughes, Laura Joy Sporcic, Nadine Z. Mendelsohn,
Vanessa Chirgwin, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, 1999.
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Afghanistan |
| TRAFFICKING |
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The military and political oppression in Afghanistan has led to an increase
in migration, which has made women extremely vulnerable to trafficking for
prostitution. (Indrani Sinha, executive director, "Paper on Globalization
& Human Rights," SANLAAP)
The Islamic fundamentalist Mujahideen groups, who have taken control of most
of Afghanistan, have sold afghani women into prostitution in Pakistan. (AI
International Secretariat, "Women in Afghanistan: A human rights catastrophe"
Amnesty International, 27 May 1998)
Kidnapped women at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border have been sold in the
marketplace for R600 per kilogram in 1991. (CATW
- Asia Pacific, Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific
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Children as young as eight and nine years old have been reported to
be in prostitution in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. (Julian West,
"Talibanšs law drives women to suicide," 27 May 1998)
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