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...prostitutes hiding in the shadows. One by one, she asks them, "Have you seen my daughter?" Finally, a girl admits Junelyn's runaway 12-year-old has been working alongside them as a "dugong" - the local term for a young prostitute - servicing the foreign freighters that anchor off the Solomon Islands capital to collect tuna caught by local fishing boats. On the wharf where the child was last seen, Customs officer Moses Tare says he spotted five young girls on a freighter during his last water patrol but has no authority to remove them. "I rang the police," he tells...
...many in the Solomons, life has improved dramatically since mid-2003, when an Australian-led rescue effort - the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) - arrived to calm long-running ethnic tensions and prevent the country from falling into anarchy. Dozens of violent militants are in jail or on trial, thousands of weapons have been confiscated, and corruption investigations are cranking up. Australia will spend $A247 million this year on its participation in RAMSI; other South Pacific nations are also giving security help. The shattered economy is gaining momentum, and an election is scheduled for April...
...forces of law and order have yet to make an impact on several illicit criminal enterprises. And none is as visible and pervasive as the one that has snared Junelyn's pubescent daughter. A report on child sexual exploitation in the Solomons, commissioned by the United Nations Children's Fund (unicef), was completed in 2004 but has never been publicly released. A copy obtained by Time documents dozens of examples of child sexual abuse - from underage prostitution to the manufacture of child pornography, child sex tourism and marriages of convenience. The report has been in the hands of the Solomon...
...editors: When I read your editorial about the Supreme Court decision upholding the Solomon Amendment requirement tying federal funding to military recruitment (“Not So Patriotic,” Mar. 13), I thought it must be an ironic humor piece. Poor Harvard must accept $400 million from the federal government, because it is in the best interest of medical and scientific research and of America as a whole. What a sacrifice! There are principles, but then there is money. Perhaps Harvard could salve its conscience by simply refusing the money that comes from the Defense Department. After...
...thirds of House Democrats yesterday joined the unanimous Republican caucus in supporting the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Solomon Amendment. The court handed down its unanimous opinion last Monday. The Solomon Amendment, a federal law enacted in 1994 and revised several times in the past twelve years, compels universities to allow military recruiters on their campuses or risk forgoing federal funds. For the last two years, universities have challenged the amendment on both constitutional and statutory grounds, and Harvard has lobbied against its most recent revision. But the most recent ruling dismissed the legal challenges...