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The Californian woman accused of trafficking babies in Guatemala will soon...
On Wednesday, Nancy Bailey should hear whether she will spend years in a Guatemalan jail for child trafficking.Bailey is on a trial facing charges related to three infants adopted through the...
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Nigerian women are being trafficked into Sicily at a rapidly increasing rate
Disheveled, barefoot and bleary-eyed, the Nigerian girls are some of the first to walk off the boats. A dream realized; they arrive in Europe — though the scene is anything but romantic. Caskets are...
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AWL examines the road out of sex trafficking, from Uganda, India, Brazil and...
Sexual slavery in the 21st century looks like this: Millions of women and girls — lives interrupted by civil war, climate change or economic desperation — are forced to sell their bodies to survive....
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How a whisper can help fight labor trafficking in Brazil
Guadalupe Couto does her best work by surprise, when a source tips her off. She’s a prosecutor on a Brazilian government team that fights labor violations.Two years ago, she got a call about the...
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The California woman accused of Guatemalan child trafficking is found not guilty
After seven months in an overcrowded Guatemalan prison where she awaited a verdict that could lead to a life sentence, Nancy Bailey got justice.Thursday, in a case that caught global media attention, a...
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On Facebook, Nigerian victims of sex trafficking often present their life as...
Walking out of church one sunny Sicilian Sunday, Fortune puckers her lips, looks coyly into the camera and snaps a selfie.Like millennials everywhere, Fortune loves social media — and she’s not done...
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Her family's business was trafficking. But she broke free.
Halimot was 15 when she came to England. She says her Aunt Miriam dressed her up "really smart"— in an elegant outfit and sunglasses to hide her eyes.Because, Aunt Miriam explained, "if they see your...
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Ugandan rapper Keko gets real about her music, her sobriety and her sexuality
In interviews I’d seen with her, she’s this larger-than-life personality. Boisterous and fired up. When we meet at an outdoor lounge in an upscale neighborhood in Kampala, she’s wearing cool sunglasses...
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Witchcraft can be the toughest chain to break for Nigerian women looking to...
Slavery's tight grip on Nigerian migrant women takes many forms: threats of violence; tens of thousands euros in debt to cover the cost of the journey; desperation.As African migrants with little...
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Uganda's abducted kids try to get their lives back to normal
When he was 11, a group of rebel soldiers came into Kenneth Banya’s village.They told Kenneth that they were lost, and they asked if he could show them the way out of town.Kenneth’s father said no, he...
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For India's sex trafficking victims, family members often bear part of the blame
The numbers are depressing: Every 8 minutes a girl goes missing in India. Most of these girls are trafficked for sex, beggary or domestic labor.Unofficial counts put the number of victims of sex...
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Sister Rosemary is a one-woman army in the fight against trafficking
When Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe was first assigned to be director of Saint Monica’s Girls' Vocational School in 2002, a Catholic mission in the northern Ugandan city of Gulu, she was a little worried....
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She thought she was going to be a teacher in Kuwait — instead she was trafficked
The world is importing labor more than ever before. According to the UN, more than 244 million people globally have left their home countries in search of opportunities.For women, that often means jobs...
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It took a lifetime for this Queens grandma to open up about her experience...
A couple of months ago, a friend of mine reached out. It was about her grandmother, Frances. Grandma Frances is 85. And my friend told me her grandma says she has a story she needs to tell someone.So,...
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For India's economy to grow, it needs to get women back in the workforce
India must reverse a trend of falling women's participation in the job market if it is to achieve its ambition of double-digit growth, the World Bank said on Monday.India is the world's fastest growing...
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At the Comey hearings, some of the most revealing questions came from women
Images of female members of parliament winning a historic number of seats in the British elections Thursday stood in stark contrast to the mostly male images coming out of Washington, DC, this week.To...
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Shredding the patriarchy: Two Moroccan women just surfed onto the world stage
The scene at the Agadir Open looks like something out of a southern California surf competition: A white sand beach, a DJ booth blasting pop music and clusters of young men in board shorts. But the...
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Wondering what to get dad for Father's Day? How about a vacuum
Father’s Day is coming up this Sunday, and the men behind a new global campaign have a message for dads everywhere: Do more care work. It makes men happier.Sounds like a message more commonly made by a...
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More parts of Canada may soon provide paid leave for victims of domestic...
Christine met her husband when she was just 17. He became emotionally abusive early on, and it escalated when their first child was just 3 months old. She knew she needed to leave him, but as a...
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Women in Africa face increased risk from severe drought
The current drought devastating sub-Saharan Africa is not only increasing hunger and disease, it is also creating more opportunities for violence against women.Across the continent, it is solely the...
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