Word: exploitationism
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And not everyone is thrilled about it. Lonely-hearts clubs have been around forever, but the flashy electronic cousin of the mail-order bride catalog has led to as many as 6,000 marriages annually and raised a few eyebrows. Early this month, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service sent...
With reference to the article "Tourists Who Prey on Kids" [CRIME, Feb. 15], ECPAT International, a nongovernment group committed to ending commercial sexual exploitation of children, would like to explain why extraterritorial laws are essential for protecting the rights of children. Under the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the...
On one hand, we protest the egregious activities of Shell Oil in Nigeria in defense of the health of local inhabitants and the local environment. Yet on the other hand, we protest the destruction of Indonesian rainforests by poverty-stricken farmers for the sake of "biodiversity." So is environmentalism a...
Samya Burni, director of the trafficking program for Human Rights Watch of New York; Laura Lederer, research director of the Kennedy School's Protection Project of the Women and Public Policy Program; Marsha Liss, trial attorney for the child exploitation and obscenity section of the criminal division in the U.S...
The panelists discussed several issues regarding the sexual exploitation of women and girls, including the relevant legal statues, the victims' human rights and the legalization of prostitution.