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Students at a development economics panel were surprised to learn yesterday that 75 percent of condoms dispensed in India are not used for sex. Sandip R. Sukhtankar, a PhD candidate in the economics department, told a group of about 30 undergraduates at a forum on “action research” that condoms, often distributed by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) for free in India, provide highly-valued lubrication for use on spindles in the sari-making industry. Sukhtankar’s point served to underscore the importance of quantifying the sometimes-uncertain impact that NGOs have on the developing world...
...Sex trafficking has been found in 90 U.S. cities and all 50 states, according to a report released by an Institute of Politics (IOP) sex trafficking policy group yesterday...
Most Americans “do not know what sex trafficking is, or if they do, they think it is a problem that occurs in other countries,” oblivious to the large-scale exploitation and abuse of both foreign and native women that takes place all around them, according to the report...
Loui Itoh ’07, co-chair of the policy group and also a Crimson editorial editor, explained how the group came together this time last year with “students who had been somewhat aware of the issue” of sex trafficking and “wanted to advocate a small step towards solving...
...past year, the policy group has been working on the report, “The Hidden Industry: Addressing Sex Trafficking in America,” which recommends ways to address the growing problem of sex trafficking...