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| Conference addresses sexual exploitation, slavery |
| By michigandaily.com - Sara Yufa |
| Published: 10/23/2013 |
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MICHIGAN - On Friday, the School of Social Work’s Child Welfare Learning Community and the Global Initiative and the Human Trafficking Clinic at the Law School hosted a day of events addressing the sex trafficking of young women. The Fedele F. and Iris M. Fauri Memorial Conference addressed exploitation of girls both domestically and internationally. It’s estimated that two-million children are exploited in prostitution or pornography every year — more than 100,000 of those victims currently in the United States, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund and the United Nations Population Fund At least 75 percent of child victims of sex trafficking are girls. Female victims are exploited via prostitution, pornography, sexual servitude and sex tourism. Girls become victims because of factors like severe poverty, the low value attached to their education, family dysfunction, cultural obligation to support their families and the need to earn money to survive, according to the event’s organizers. Read More. |
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