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In Modern Bondage: Sex Trafficking in the Americas

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In Modern Bondage: Sex Trafficking in the Americas

Publisher: DePaul University College of Law
ISBN/ASIN: 1889001139
Number of pages: 221

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This second revised edition includes the expanded findings of IHRLI's groundbreaking 2000 study of trafficking of women and children for purposes of commercial sexual exploitation in the Americas. Included in this publication are the newly edited regional overview, which examines the situation of trafficking in Belize, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama, and a summary report of trafficking in Brazil.

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