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Sex
slave industry to rival illegal drugs trade
The United States
Senate has been told that the trafficking of women and children for sex is
the biggest form of slavery in the world today and may come to rival the
illegal drugs trade.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee heard
that up to 2 million women worldwide were sold or lured into becoming sex
slaves, with 50,000 of them arriving in the United States
annually.
Officials told the committee that many of the women came
from the Ukraine, Albania, the Philippines, Thailand, Mexico and
Nigeria.
They said that many governments and law enforcement
agencies were not sensitive to the problem and that penalties were
insufficient to deter traffickers.
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