The Coalition against Trafficking in Women

How to fight against Trafficking in Women:

Globally or Domestically

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Women Trafficking in the U.S. of A

• -Mostly in Detroit, women brought over from Ukraine, under false promises of witnessing jobs in Virginia. But they ended up in Detroit.1

• Russian mafia is the head of the operation.

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U.S fights back

• It estimated that 15,000 to 20,000 victims of trafficking are brought into the United States...many through the open borders.

• AAGT

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“Fresh Meat” from El Salvador.

• Some girls have “Quotas”, under duress of being beaten up.

• From Thailand to Philadelphia (massage parlors are houses of prostitution. 45 minutes of sex.(Oriental Massage)

• There are web chat rooms, where men share if prostitutes are “trimmed” and the ethnicity of the women.

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Institutionalized prostitution

• It is sex-slaves. (esp.. in San Francisco)

• In Orange County the highest profile ring

caught in 2007.

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LATIN AMERICA

• Is the biggest source of trafficked women;

esp. via Mexico.• Elected officials not responding.

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Docs.com

• U.S. Senators have double-standards; one for themselves and one for everybody else.

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Domestic Trafficking

• Spitzer pays for trafficking:• More info on Women sex traffickers/trafficking. Sex for hire in the U.S. of A.

• Coalition against Trafficking in Women• http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/catw