Sexual Enslavement of Girls and Women Worldwide

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Andrea Parrot, Nina Cummings

Book Code: C9291

ISBN: 0-275-99291-8

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-99291-0

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200 pages, figure; table

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 8/30/2008

List Price: $44.95 (UK Sterling Price: £25.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: Practical and Applied Psychology

Description: They are in different countries but share the same hell. Maria is one of 14 women lured from Mexico to Seattle, Washington, with the promise of a job, then held by force in a brothel and required to sexually service men 12 hours a day. Anna is a young mother from the Ukraine who left her husband and children there to take a job as a housecleaner in Italy, where she was put in a barred, guarded house and forced into prostitution. Nadia is an 11-year-old girl in Africa, kidnapped and forced to have sex with a militiaman daily, with a machete ever ready nearby should she refuse. All three women are part of horrific sex slavery that has drawn the attention of officials in countries around the globe. It is not rare; officials say it is increasing, at least partly due to the billions of dollars it brings in for organized crime. The U.S. State Department estimates 800,000 victims, mostly women and children, are trafficked for sex trade across nations each year and millions more are trafficked within countries - including the U.S., Britain, Spain, and the Netherlands. As a Seattle Times reporter explained when Maria's case hit the news there, the reality is that sex slaves for the most part are young women and teenaged girls who come from "almost every one of the world's poorer countries and end up in almost every country where there is a combination of sexual demand and money." But they are also in undeveloped Africa, in prisons internationally, locked in forced marriages, or sold to men by parents. In this book, Parrot and Cummings outline the scope and growth of the sex slave market today and explain the history with various elements - including economic, political, cultural, and religious - that make this trade difficult to fully expose, quell, combat, and shut down. We hear from girls and women around the world describing how sexual enslavement has tortured them physically, emotionally, and spiritually, whether they suffer at the hands of prison guards in Turkey, criminals in Washington, or buyers dealing with parents who sell their daughters for the sex slave trade in Greece, Belgium, or France. The authors also describe national and international efforts and legislation passed or in design to stop sex slavery. Successful countries and regions are spotlighted. Then Parrot and Cummings point out actions still needed to stop the sex slavery trade.

Table of Contents:

Foreword by Judy Kuriansky
Preface
Abbreviations
Section Part I: Sexual Slavery of Women in Context
Chapter 1:. Scope of the Problem Overview
Chapter 2.: Conditions Supporting Sexual Slavery
Section Part II: Types of Sexual Slavery
Chapter 3: Sex Trafficking
Chapter 4: War-Induced Sexual Slavery
Chapter 5: Religious Sexual Slavery
Chapter 6.: Forced Marriage
Chapter 7.: Sexual Servitude
Section Part III: Attempts to Reduce or Eliminate Sexual Slavery
Chapter 8.: Success Stories: Policies and Legislative
Chapter 9.: Consequences of Sexual Slavery and Trafficking of Girls and Women
Chapter 10:. Initiatives to Stop Sexual Slavery: International, National, and Legislative
Appendices
Appendix A1: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
Appendix 2B: Convention on the Rights of the Child
Appendix 3C: U.N. Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women 1993
Appendix 4D: PROTOCOL TO PREVENT, SUPPRESS AND PUNISH TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS, ESPECIALLY WOMEN AND CHILDREN, SUPPLEMENTING THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION AGAINST TRANSNATIONALORGANIZED CRIME
Glossary
References
Index
List of Illustrations
Figure 1. The interaction of factors associated with sexual slavery
Figure 2. Global trafficking patterns by source and destination countries

LC Card Number: 2008015122

LCC Class: HQ281

Dewey Class: 364

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