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Mar
30

Over the past years many European countries, including Denmark, have seen a sharp increase in the number of Nigerian women involved in prostitution. The overwhelming majority of these women are victims of human trafficking. Many arrive in Europe following a horrifying journey across the African continent. Once arrived at their destination, the traffickers present each of the women with a fictitious bill of € 60 000, payable at once. (shooting location: Denmark, Nigeria). Filmmaker / director, Anja Dalhoff
A Russia Today news report. Trafficking mafia are moving women from Russia to Israel where they became the property of local pimps. Russia's International Organization for Migration has recently passed a new law that outlaws the migration of women due to trafficking and exploitation. Those who organize prostitution now face a prison term in Russia. In spite of these efforts there is much to accomplish to abolish the world's slave trade. 3:48 min Jan 2008 film.
This interview is from a brave woman who was trafficked from Nigeria to Italy. Dozens of suspected gang members have been arrested in Italy accused of smuggling women from Nigeria to work as drug couriers and prostitutes. Thousands of women from Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe are lured by the prospect of well-paid work in shops and factories. But their dreams of a better life often end in a brothel. Isoke Aikpitanyi from Nigeria is one of those women, she tell us her story. Aljazeera news production 2:26 m

Jan
23

Everywoman TV report (excerpt) on two separate topics. On "The Global Gag Rule" coming from the U.S. which effects international politics on global health, birth control and family planning. And, the hard issues of elderly "Comfort Women" today seeking justice from Japan's legislature for their ordeals as forced sexual-workers during WWII. Film 12:30 min. Everywoman TV 2007

Jan
2

"Sacrifice" examines the social, cultural, and economic forces at work in the trafficking of Burmese girls into prostitution in Thailand. It is the story of the valuation and sale of human beings, and the efforts of teenage girls to survive a personal crisis born of economic and political repression. Each year thousands of young girls are recruited from rural Burmese villages to work in the sex industry in neighboring Thailand. Held for years in debt bondage in illegal Thai brothels, they suffer extreme abu

Dec
2007

A very powerful new film about Comfort women and Japanese legislators response to the issue. Reports about the forced sexual-use of women during the war were presented as clear evidence before the Tokyo War Crimes tribunal citing that through these acts Japan was involved in war crimes during World War Two. The tribunal convened on May 3, 1946, and was adjourned on November 12, 1948. Women used as forced sex-workers by Japan military forces during the war are speaking out in public today in rising numbers..