Posts Tagged ‘sexual servitude’
Celebrating International Womens Day
#PressforProgress International Womens Day is a significant event on the ACRATH calendar. On this day we join with others in pressing for progress. In the 2017 report of the UN Secretary General on the progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals, António Guterres indicated “gender inequality persists worldwide, depriving women and girls of their basic rights and opportunities.”…
Read MoreChild Trafficking After Earthquake
Child Traffickers Target Vulnerable Children When a 7.6 quake caused huge loss of life and devastation of homes child traffickers took advantage of children who had lost their families and were homeless. The traffickers sold children into child labour, forced marriage and sexual servitude. Poor people were also targeted by organ traffickers who offered quick…
Read MorePlight of Women Trafficked into Servitude
Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) Study The AIC has released a study entitled Help-seeking strategies of victim/survivors of human trafficking involving partner migration. Co-authors of the Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice paper, Kelly Richards and Samantha Lyneham, presented this paper after research that involved interviewing eight migrant women who escaped from situations where they found…
Read MoreMadam Convicted for Sexual Servitude
“Treated Human Beings as Commodities” In Sydney a woman has been sentenced to a maximum of six years jail for forcing young Malaysian women into sexual servitude. In sentencing the woman the sentencing judge said the woman had been treated “not as human beings but as commodities – machines to make money.” The women had…
Read MoreWoman Convicted of Holding Sex Slaves
Six Women Held in Sexual Servitude In a recent court case in Sydney the jury heard how a woman had forced six immigrant women into sexual servitude. After being recruited in Malaysia and brought to Australia on student visas the six women were forced to work in a brothel in Sydney. With little or no…
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