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Airline Crews to Ground Sex Traffickers Heading to Super Bowl
By Linda Jones - AOL NewsDALLAS -- Sex traffickers who plan to come to Dallas to conduct business during the Super Bowl weekend might find themselves grounded if they travel by plane. Employees from at least five airlines will attend a special training session this week to learn how to get better at recognizing sex traffickers among travelers and learn what security measures to take. "We want to become especially vigilant during the week before the Super Bowl," said Nancy Rivard, executive director of Airline Ambassadors, a humanitarian group of flight attendants that has aided victims of sex trafficking ...
Italy Plans to Denude Forest to Fight Prostitution
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Oct. 17) -- An Italian region struggling with policing the sex trade along a heavily wooded road has come up with a novel solution: Just chop down the forest. According to the Guardian newspaper, the regional government of Abruzzo in central Italy has tried 24-hour patrols, raids and cameras to curb the rampant sex trade on the Bonifica del Tronto road -- all to no effect. Finally, Angelo di Paolo, the regional government's notoriously decisive public works chief, decided that fighting the forest would be much easier then fighting the sex trade. He declared that all the vegetation on or ...
Sex Trafficking in Spain Linked to Prostitution Ads
By Dana Kennedy - AOL News(July 22) -- A week after Spain's prime minister angered many of the country's newspaper publishers by calling for a ban on lucrative prostitution ads, one of the few national dailies that refuse to take such ads has launched a three-day front-page investigation linking the ads to sex traffickers. The publication 20 Minutos took on other newspapers in Spain, where prostitution is legal, in a series that began Wednesday and exposes the big business behind the ads. One ad highlighted in the investigation shows the silhouette of a woman and the words "Sex Slave. Literally." At stake is the ...
Sex Trafficking Investigation Focuses on van der Sloot
By David Lohr - AOL News(July 19) -- Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch native charged with killing a Peruvian woman and extorting money from the mother of missing U.S. teen Natalee Holloway, may have even more legal problems ahead. Earlier this month, the National Enquirer reported on van der Sloot's alleged involvement in sex trafficking in Thailand. Now Peru's minister of justice has confirmed that Thai authorities are pursuing criminal charges against van der Sloot, according to CBS News. AP Thai authorities are pursuing criminal charges against Joran van der Sloot for his alleged involvement with sex trafficking ...
How to Make Women's Rights THE Issue of the 21st Century
By Christine Wicker - Politics Daily"The big problem is [how] to define the protection of women's rights as the problem of the 21st century. If the world does that, [women's inequality] will become like the eradication of apartheid -- people will insist that it's wrong, it's wrong, it's wrong, and that's when change happens."Those words come from Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali victim of genital mutilation who wrote a screenplay about the mistreatment of Islamic women. Theo van Gogh turned the screenplay into the film "Submission." Two months later he was assassinated. Ali, whose life was threatened, has lived under guard for the past ...
ACORN Workers Caught Helping Sex-Traffic Posers
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyACORN office workers in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., have been caught on hidden video camera advising a couple posing as a prostitute and pimp on how to hide their crimes. On Friday, the video of the Washington, D.C., sting was released by the creator, an independent filmmaker. ACORN, a national non-profit that helps the poor get housing, fired the two Baltimore office employees on Thursday. ...
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