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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (14741)	9/22/2002 3:42:00 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Canadian and American tourists* have contributed to a sharp increase in child prostitution and in the exploitation of women in Cuba.* Makes one feel proud to be an American. Shrug. One of the tourism rich States is Nevada. They've got legalized prostitution. Shrug. Big business throughout the US in the sex slave trade. Up to 50,000 women and children from around the world are trafficked every year to the United States, according to a recent CIA report. Some pay off their debts as seamstresses in sweatshops or as household servants. But more are put to work as prostitutes, the report said. freep.com Shrug. On the bright side, it's US policy to with hold non-humanitarian assistance from countries that don't meet minimum standards for the elimination of sexual trafficing. [see page 6] house.gov [THE SEX TRADE: TRAFFICKING OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES] AMNESTY ISRAEL FAILING TO DEAL WITH WHITE-SLAVE TRADE by Dan Izenberg and Heidi J. Gleit May 22, 2000 ISRAEL: JERUSALEM POST - Israel has failed to take adequate measures against human rights abuses committed against women who have been brought here and forced to provide sexual services, Amnesty International charged in a special report on the trafficking of women from the former Soviet Union. "This is so," the report continued, "even though many of them have been subjected to human rights abuses such as enslavement or torture, including rape and other forms of sexual abuse, by traffickers, pimps, or others involved in Israel's sex industry." Amnesty International also criticized Israel for not providing a procedure to grant asylum to women who have been smuggled into the country often on the basis of false promises of work having nothing to do with sex. Shrug. It wouldn't take you long to convince me that the human species doesn't deserve this planet. jttmab