Not sure if anyone read in Today’s Greenville Paper (The Daily Reporter) but Nick Kristof wrote a commentary on the debate surrounding Greg Mortenson and his books and successes in Afghanistan. Everyone should check it out! I also found it on the NY Times website: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/opinion/21kristof.html?_r=1&ref=nicholasdkristof I know this is one of our final questions for … Read more
This is the story of a Mexican woman who was taken from Mexico and brought to the US as a work slave. She was lied to by her trafficker to get her to come to the country and then was kept captive for 40 days until she finally escaped. Her story is very interesting as … Read more
This article explores how the United States is (very) slowly waking up to something that was realized in Sweden long ago (and was proven to work!)…that in order to truly combat the commercial sex trade (both consensual and non-consensual) they must penalize the demand and not the supply. In short, the johns and not the … Read more
–Leila McInnis Hundreds of thousands of women are taken from their homes every year and forced to have sex for money. Sex-trafficking is defined by the US State Department as “the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for sexual exploitation through the use of fraud, force, or coercion” (Strege, 2008:98). There are … Read more
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wosu/news.newsmain/article/0/1/1768137/WOSU.News/Advocates.Sex.Trafficking.Prominent.in.Central.Ohio This is the story told by Vanessa who, after becoming addicted to drugs and alcohol, was forced into prostitution in central Ohio. She started out prostituting to earn money for drugs but after being arrested several times, a friend introduced her to a man who could help her out. He started out nice, giving … Read more
CNN has created a projected called ending modern-day slavery. On the website for ending modern-day slavery there is detailed information about the problems. The websites says that there are between 10 to 30 million slaves in the world now. There are updates about news related to slavery, such as an interview with an India official … Read more
The following link goes to the e-Museum for the victims of Japanese military sexual slavery. http://www.hermuseum.go.kr/eng/en_index.asp It provides some precious testimonies including late Hak-soon Kim’s historic confession in the year of 1991. It was the first confession for ‘coming out of the closet’ that she was a comfort women in Korea. And it definitely exploded … Read more
Hello, Recently I become interested in women’s activism for the comfort women in Korea. Especially, I think some issues regarding the comfort women (such as comfort women organizing, protest repertoires, funding, and confession) provide us very interesting examples of social movements in a marginal position, not of a middle class women’s movements. Although I don’t … Read more
From the front page of CNN’s website today comes a story about a Wisconsin woman who offered to trade domestic labor in exchange for a place to live via the website Craigslist.org. When she arrived in New York, she found that the man who had responded to her advertisement had very different motivations for seeking … Read more