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...have been sold into sexual slavery since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003. There is no official number because of the shadowy nature of the business. Baghdad-based activists like Hinda and others estimate it to be in the tens of thousands. Still, it remains a hidden crime, one that the 2008 U.S. State Department's Trafficking in Persons report says the Iraqi government is not combating. Baghdad, the report says, "offers no protection services to victims of trafficking, reported no efforts to prevent trafficking in persons and does not acknowledge trafficking to be a problem...
...imagination.” This in turn “strengthened [his] resolve and ability to stand resolutely against the dictatorship and to keep [himself] alive.” To represent in the world of arts and humanities the lives of others who are “hidden from history” is to recognize the ephemeral power of the imagination...
...turned deadly serious by four decades of civil war, Pablo Escobar and cocaine cartels. But what my friends - who spent their vacations standing in line at Space Mountain or screaming down the Atlantis waterslide - failed to realize is that Cartagena has become one of the Caribbean's most charming hidden gems...
Residents in Bissau said on Monday that they had hidden inside their houses overnight, listening to gunshots resound across the city for hours, until they subsided at about 5 a.m. "Everyone is shocked," the former Minister of Finance Isifou Sanha said by phone from Bissau. "There must be a call to respect the constitution." Military leaders said on Guinea-Bissau radio stations yesterday that they would follow the constitution, by allowing the head of the parliament to run the country until new elections, which are supposed to be held within 60 days. Yet with billions of dollars of illegal drug...
...McCain, Sen. John • resentment of that perks of the presidency will never be enjoyed by is not well-hidden...