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Stories An Amnesty International report outlines the extent of trafficking into Kosovo, which was identified as a problem just 3 months after the deployment in July 1999 of international forces and police officers. The report gives an overview of the research as well as including some stories from the women affected. “Eventually I arrived in a bar in Kosovo, [and was] locked inside and forced into prostitution. In the bar I was never paid, I could not go out by myself, the owner became more and more violent as the weeks went by; he was beating me and raping me and the other girls. We were his ‘property’, he said. By buying us, he had bought the right to beat us, rape us, starve us, force us to have sex with clients.” – Moldovan woman trafficked into Kosovo. On 18 October 2005 a young girl was found in a squalid brothel in the slums of a small city in Southern Maharashtra. She called herself Karishma (it turned out that wasn't her real name) and agreed to have sex with a man pretending to be a customer for Rs. 70 ($1.50). When Malee was 14, her “mother” convinced her to go work in a wealthier neighboring country where a friend promised her a job at a restaurant. A government official drove Malee across the border. The restaurant had only one item on the menu. That first night, Malee’s virginity was sold to a Chinese businessman for nearly $1000. He believed the investment well worth it for the luck, prosperity, and long life he would receive from sleeping with a virgin. Malee did not feel lucky. The brothel owner had to beat Malee into submission, tie her up and gag her in order to give the man a good time. But that was not Malee’s final customer that night. The owner sold her to several men willing to pay extra for the “first night.” Within several days, Malee’s market value dropped to $5 per customer. When she arrived in London, Elena was told she owed her traffickers £20,000 in travel costs and that she would have to work as a prostitute to pay them back. She was taken to Soho where she spent four months working seven days a week, having sex with up to 20 men a day, in three different flats. She was allowed £15 per day for food, cigarettes and condoms. Just over 3 years ago, Hatti Trading set up a Fair Trade Production Centre in Nepal to give survivors of human trafficking a chance to rebuild their lives. Recently one of the girls was given a video camera – Click here to see the result of her filming the others at work. A chance meeting with a Nigerian prostitute on the streets of Rome in 1993 led Sister Eugenia to dedicate her life to assisting those trafficked into Italy. Since 2000 she has run the counter-trafficking office of the Union of Major Superiors of Italy, spearheading a nationwide ministry that includes 100 shelters for trafficked women where they find respect, love and healing. Hi all - no time to write this up properly, but wanted to share that I had a Bible study with a group of women and one man yesterday who rescued a family member from a brothel in London - it's a monthly Punjabi language house worship. Hi everyone The individual units, however, that congregate to form the piece are derived from the vital statistics of real people aged between 18 months and 80 years. Beside the height and width of their bodies, 13 other precise measurements were taken of the 300 people used. The hollow concrete "body cases" constructed from these very personal dimensions have apertures for the mouth, ears, anus and genitals. Each rectangular room represents the smallest space capable of containing the person. Put together they form a maze-like cityscape. Gormley wants to make some connection about habitation - the body being our first and buildings our second. Hundred of children 'trafficked' UK 'abandons trafficked children' Nepalese Women and Children trafficked 40 children identified as possible victims of trafficking by UKHTC April-September 2009 Niger guilty in landmark slavery case Powerful artwork (on a Romanian site)
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