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'Women hold up half the sky.' -Chines proverb mentioned in 'Half the Sky'. Words to ponder when thinking about sex-trafficking

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"The total number of modern slaves is difficult to estimate. The International Labour Organization, a UN agency, estimates that at any one time there are 12.3 million people engaged in forced labor of all kinds, not just sexual servitude. -Half the Sky

"Then the boss and the other gangsters raped her and beat her with their fists." -Half the Sky For some, this is reality. When a girl is forced into the trade, she often resists, hoping to maintain her virginity. She is conditioned by violence, only to resign to her fate.

"--far more women and girls are shipped into brothels each year in the early twenty-first century than African slaves were shipped into slave plantations each year in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries..." -Half the Sky

"Woinshet managed to escape, but she was recaptured during what was for her a three-day hike back home." -Half the Sky So many girls that manage to escape or are saved from the grips of trafficking often are recaptured or even willingly return to their traffickers.

A survivor speaks: Local realities of human trafficking in Ontario, CA westerngazette.ca/culture/a-surv… via @uwogazette

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'"Empowering women begins with Eduaction," she said"'-Half the Sky Just think about all the girls that could stay out of brothels across the globe if only they were given the opportunity to attend school.

"Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little." -Half the Sky

"In the hope of staying alive, Woineshet moved to the police station and was house in a jail cell--so the rape victim was in a cell and the rapist was free." -Half the Sky

"Even if you go home, Abrew will go after you again," the official told her. "So there's no point in resisting" -Half the Sky

'Rescuing girls from brothels is the easy part, however. The challenge is keeping them from returning. The stigma that the girls feel in their communities after being freed, coupled with drug dependencies or threats from pimps, often lead them to return...' -'Half the Sky'

'A starting point is to be brutally realistic about the complexities of achieving change.' -'Half the Sky' Nicholas D. Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn

This week, I'd like to focus my tweets on, 'Half the Sky', a phenomenal read by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. Their book focuses on how sex-trafficking happens, how to prevent it, and how to stop it. amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss…