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The anti-human trafficking movement has been calling attention to how businesses can stop being enablers of the slavery of our time. Polaris Project has shown recently this is not just true for labor trafficking and supply chains, but in the sex trade. We’ve challenged craigslist to eliminate the Erotic Services section with ads of [...] By Policy and POC on 27th May 2009 | Tags: craigslist, LexisNexis, massage parlors, National Human Trafficking Resource Center, NHTRC, The Washington Post | Category: Corporate Social Accountability, Human Trafficking in the U.S. | Join the conversation Ads placed in “Erotic Services” section of craigslist in Portland, Oregon “I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.” – Frederick Douglass Human traffickers are motivated by profit, and they [...] By Bradley Myles on 28th April 2009 | Tags: craigslist, Frederick Douglass, johns, National Organization for Women, NOW, The Washington Post | Category: Author: Bradley Myles, Corporate Social Accountability, Human Trafficking in the Media | 11 comments The Washington Post has been advertising massage parlor ads consistently for at least 15 years. This advertisement for Hong Kong Spa appeared in the paper in 1994. The Washington Post also published a news article that described Hong Kong Spa as a sex trafficking location. In my previous post, I referred to a policy [...] By Katherine Chon on 10th April 2009 | Tags: brothels, DC Task Force on Human Trafficking, Los Angeles Times, massage parlors, paper pimp, prostituted people, The Washington Post | Category: Author: Katherine Chon, Corporate Social Accountability, Human Trafficking in the Media, Sex Trafficking | 2 comments Last year, I spoke with Nomi Levenkron, an attorney with the Israel-based Hotline for Migrant Workers that produced a policy report on “Paper Pimps.” The report, supported by the European Union, presents research on the scope of sex trafficking in Israel and its enabling support structure, namely the advertisers of commercial sex operations, referred to as [...] By Katherine Chon on 3rd April 2009 | Tags: Asian women, brothels, Hotline for Migrant Workers, massage parlors, paper pimp, prostituted people, The Washington Post, women | Category: Author: Katherine Chon, Corporate Social Accountability, Human Trafficking in the Media, Sex Trafficking | 6 comments |
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