child prostitution

Contains twenty-four esays in which the authors debate the issue of modern slavery, providing an overview of marginal workers and global slavery; discussing slave labor, child labor, and the maquiladores; and considering economic growth and human rights in relation to the global economy.

Composite profiles of young prostitutes, based on interviews, telling of how they fall into the life, their degradition, and the difficulty of making a change. Provides historical background and discusses available social services.

Somaly Mam, a Cambodian woman who was sold into the sex trade when she was twelve, relates her experiences in the industry and discusses her work as an activist in Southeast Asia.

Discusses the nature and causes of teen prostitution.

Examines the global sex trade, exposing how women and girls from all over Eastern Europe are being sold for sex by networks of organized crime that rose to prominence after the fall of communism.

A novel in vignettes, in which Lakshmi, a thirteen-year-old girl from Nepal, is sold into prostitution in India.

Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. For more than a decade she was shuttled through the brothels that make up the sex trade of Southeast Asia. In her twenties, she managed to escape but unable to forget her ordeal, she became a brave leader in the fight against sexual abuse of children. She has rescued some as young as five and continues to show the world how one individual can bring about change.

Presents an overview of the problem of teenage prostitutes, including some of the causes and consequences of this phenomenon and what can be done to prevent it.

The author, a survivor of the commercial sex industry, shares her personal story, and discusses her efforts to help other girls who are victims of sexual exploitation through her nonprofit organization GEMS, Girls Educational and Mentoring Services.