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unusual facts about sexual slavery


Croydon Community Against Trafficking

The CCAT exists as a coalition of concerned citizens, faith and community groups who aim to stop the injustice of human trafficking for sexual exploitation within the London Borough of Croydon - one of the biggest 'ports' for human trafficking in the UK.


Broken Laws

Broken Laws on the topic of parental overindulgence is the second of Davenport's "social conscience" releases, along with The Red Kimona (1925), based on a true-life story of white slavery.

Human Wreckage

The following year's The Red Kimona dealt with white slavery, a film over which Davenport was successfully sued.

Pin prick attack

Although fanciful tales of so-called "needle men" or white slavers, who supposedly injected unsuspecting young girls with morphine then carrying them away into a life of prostitution, had been around since the 1930s, the legend probably has its roots in a 1989 incident where ten teenage girls were arrested and later charged with stabbing numerous women with pins in the Upper West Side area of New York.


see also

AnnaMaria Cardinalli

Bacha bazi (sexual slavery / child prostitution in Afghanistan)

Yoshiaki Yoshimi

On 17 April 2007, Yoshimi and fellow historian Hirofumi Hayashi held a press conference and announced the discovery of documents in the archives of the Tokyo Tribunal that demonstrate that Tokkeitai members coerced or otherwise forced women from Indonesia, Indochina, and China into sexual slavery.