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The darker side of Thailand’s sex industry: trafficking underage girls

Justice

In Thailand’s underage sex industry, the word “trafficking” as we know it in the West, doesn’t get used much. The phrase “buying and selling” is more common. But however you describe it, the practice of taking underage girls from their homes in the north and forcing them into the sex industry in Chiang Mai (and beyond) hasn’t gone away.

Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for advocating girls' rights to education, and Kailash Satyarthi won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

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Global Politics

Children treated like slaves to produce supposedly ‘fair-trade’ cotton for Victoria’s Secret

Ethical clothing, made in Liberia

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The Best and Worst Countries on Global Slavery List

The Obama administration added Syria to the list of countries that could face US sanctions for not doing enough to combat trafficking. But it was good news for Venezuela and Burma.

Farmers Disagree With Child-Labor Laws

The Takeaway has been talking about child labor in America this week, from paper routes to custodial work. Now, a look at the farm. Should children be restricted from doing certain kinds of agricultural work? The Department of Labor thinks so. In a new proposal, they are hoping to bar most farm hands younger than […]