These women are forced to marry Muslim men and in many cases convert to Islam. It's a practice which meets the international definition of human trafficking, but is also a serious issue of violence against women.
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Child human trafficking victims: Challenges for the child welfare system. ... Raj A. Violence Against Women; 13(5): 486-97. ...
www.svri.org/trafficking.htm www.svri.org/trafficking.htm
This paper will review some of the key issues concerning trafficking of women and violence against women, discuss discrimination as a common thread, and explore the potential for the use of CEDAW as a tool to reduce trafficking in and violence against women.
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The outcome of the meeting will serve as an input to UNESCAP’s work with Member States on violence against women, trafficking in women and women’s rights, and will also serve as input to the UN Secretary-General’s study on violence against women.
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The traffickers often take advantage of these economic hardships faced by the women and children and victimise them. Domestic Violence: Indian women have ...
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The Swedish Law that Prohibits the Purchase of Sexual Services: Best Practices for Prevention of Prostitution and Trafficking in Human Beings, Violence Against Women 2004 10: 1187-1218.
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What is really the cause of the trade in women? Not merely white women, but yellow and black women as well. Exploitation, of course; the merciless Moloch of capitalism that fattens on underpaid labor, thus driving thousands of women and girls into prostitution.
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This page includes papers on violence against women. (Also see my publications on trafficking, slavery and sexual exploitation) ... "Violence against women in Belgrade, Serbia: SOS Hotline 1991 - 1993." Violence Against Women - An International Interdisciplinary Journal 1997:Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 101-128. (Co-author:
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Trafficking in Women and Children: Violence Against Women and Humanity; Statement by Catherine P. Maceda, Deputy Executive Director, Commission on Filipinos Overseas, Republic of the Philippines;
www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/220774.pdf
Guatemala’s many laws and programmes intended to end discrimination against women must be harmonized into a comprehensive, streamlined system capable of addressing widespread violence against women, trafficking in women, indigenous women’s rights and “femicide” –- the murder and disappearances of women...
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