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...Department of Health and Human Services Rescue and Restore Campaign defines sex trafficking as “a modern-day form of slavery in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion,” including such forms of exploitation as “prostitution, pornography, stripping, live-sex shows, mail-order brides, military prostitution, and sex tourism...
...Jessamy, the state's attorney in Baltimore, saw an opportunity in the controversy over the Stop Snitching craze. For years, she says, she lobbied unsuccessfully for more tools to fight witness intimidation. She told lawmakers that 90% of the murder cases her office handles involve some form of witness coercion and that 25% of her shooting trials were dismissed because a witness didn't show. But the Stop Snitching DVD argued her case better than any statistics could. She immediately made more than 400 copies and gave one to each state legislator. "That DVD showed them what is really going...
Although Benowitz says that she appreciates the planning of a 8:45 a.m. prayer service every day, she sees the bells as religious coercion...
...because egg donation is a painful and potentially risky process, paying women to do it is considered a form of coercion. Indeed, the 2004 study said women had "voluntarily donated oocytes ... and no financial reimbursement in any form was paid." But last spring, two of Hwang's researchers let slip to a journalist working for Nature that they had donated their own eggs--which raised questions, since Hwang was their boss, about whether they had been coerced...
Former CIA general counsel Jeffrey Smith, a key torture-ban advocate, said it would be "deeply distressing" if the amendment is interpreted as toothless. Another sign that the U.S. is sending mixed messages on torture: a provision in the bill would allow military panels to assess information obtained through "coercion" when considering whether to continue holding an enemy combatant...