Former Blackwater employees report that the company charged the US government for prostitutes.
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johnpi
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Global recession fuels child sex boom.
Increasing poverty in children’s countries of origin and smaller budgets for social services are two of the factors heightening children’s vulnerability. Deterioration of living conditions often compels young people to abandon school in order to contribute to the family income, putting them at risk of seeking livelihood options that lead to their being exploited, according to ECPAT International.
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ECPAT International’s recent report also warned that the number of children and young people trafficked within their own country is increasing. Such trafficking frequently involves movement from rural to urban areas or from one city or town to another without the need for travel documentation.
Muslim country bonus fact: The International Labor Organization says sex tourism contributes as much as 14 percent of the gross domestic product of Indonesia and Malaysia. The real question is would more conservative, religion-based governance better confront the problem with harsher policies, or make it worse as puritanical attitudes turn the victims into untouchable wretches and scapegoat them for the crimes of their victimizers?
America doesn’t seem to be doing any better at coming up with just solutions:
See an interview with the girl here. The judge had little choice because of California’s harsh mandatory sentencing guidelines. His options were life without possibility of parole, or 25 to life.
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Trends and developments in Iraqi society based of the various story lines that bloggers, advocates and journalists (with or without a political axe to grind) are promoting. Here are a few:
1. Iraq as a land of fallen, formerly well-off middle-class educated people now degraded and run down by cruel invaders, as in this story or at this blog.
2. Iraq as the land of newly inflamed extremists afflicting the vulnerable and defenseless as in stories such as this and this.
3. Iraq – especially Baghdad – returning to its true character as ’sin city,’ as in this story today from the NY Times/International Herald Tribune:
BAGHDAD – Vice is making a comeback in this city once famous for 1,001 varieties of it.
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Prostitution in the Islamic nation of Pakistan, once relegated to dark alleys and small red-light districts, is now seeping into many neighborhoods of country’s urban centers.
