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1) Tricked
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Modern-day slavery is alive and well in the United States as thousands of victims are trafficked throughout the country to satisfy America's {dollar}3 billion a year sex trafficking industry. Meet the pimps, the johns, the police, the parents and the victims of the thriving sex trade in Tricked, a comprehensive documentary that uncovers one of America's secrets.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A powerful and emotional documentary about Korean women forced into sexual servitude by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, Silence broken dramatically combines the testimony of former comfort women who demand justice for the "crimes against humanity" committed against them, along with contravening interviews of Japanese soldiers, recruiters and contemporary scholars who deny the existence of comfort women or claim that these victims "did...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In his first film since the acclaimed and equally devastating Blind shaft, Director Li Yang turns from corruption of China's illegal mining to the even more horrifying illegal trade in women. Bax Xuemei is young college graduate who yearns for a life as budding urban capitalist but ends up drugged and sold as the "bride" of rural brute.
Author
Series
Blue justice volume 2
Language
English
Description
Chloe St. John and her K-9 German shepherd partner, Hank are asked to be part of a task force assembled to bring down a ring of human traffickers.
For the past year Chloe St. John has been working as a K-9 cop with her German shepherd partner, Hank. Now a serious case of human trafficking with connections to her missing cousin just landed in her lap. When US Marshall Blake MacCallum's daughter goes missing, he's ordered to kill the judge he's protecting...
Author
Series
Millennium novels (Stieg Larsson) volume 2
Language
English
Description
On the eve of publisher Mikael Blomkvist's story about sex trafficking between Eastern Europe and Sweden, two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Mikael Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander--the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who came to his aid years before.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Dane family's roots tangle deep in the Ozark Mountain town of Henbane, but that doesn't keep sixteen-year-old Lucy Dane from being treated like an outsider. Folks still whisper about her mother, a bewitching young stranger who inspired local myths when she vanished years ago. When one of Lucy's few friends, slow-minded Cheri, is found murdered, Lucy feels haunted by the two lost girls--the mother she never knew and the friend she couldn't protect....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Each year thousands of young girls are recruited from rural Burmese villages to work in the sex industry in neighboring Thailand. Held for years in debt bondage in illegal Thai brothels, they suffer extreme abuse by pimps, clients, and the police. The trafficking of Burmese girls has soared in recent years as a direct result of political repression in Burma. Human rights abuses, war and ethnic discrimination has displaced hundreds of thousands of...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An examination of human trafficking around the world including the following countries: United States, Japan, United Arab Emirates, Thailand, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Colombia, Iraq, Syria, Canada, Italy, France, Iran, India, Niger, China, South Africa, Australia, United Kingdom, Chile, Germany, Poland, Mexico, Russia, and Brazil.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"To bring down a sleazy abduction ring, Lieutenant Margaret "Margo" Peterson has set herself up as bait. But recruiting Dashiel Riske as her unofficial partner is a whole other kind of danger. Dash is six feet four inches of laid-back masculine charm, a man who loves life--and women--to the limit. Until Margo is threatened, and he reveals a dark side that may just match her own.... Beneath Margo's tough facade is a slow-burning sexiness that drives...
10) The water keeper
Author
Series
Murphy Shepherd novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Murphy Shepherd lives alone, doing maintenance work for a church that no one attends and trying to heal from scars gained rescuing others who dwell in the margins. His specialty is finding young girls bought and sold in the flesh trade, and leading them from brokenness to freedom, but Shepherd thinks he has given everything he has and it may be time to retire. His hermetic healing process is interrupted when he rescues a woman named Summer in Florida's...
Author
Publisher
Barron's
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author Abby Sher tells the riveting story of three survivors of sexual slavery. These three women could easily have been voiceless victims, lost to the horrors of their own histories. Instead of running from their pasts, they choose to help those still caught in the system. It sends the powerful message that, even in the most tragic circumstances, the unwavering hope and compassion of the human spirit can and will shine through. Teens,...
Author
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The true story of a young African girl, Tupa Tjipombo, who was abducted from southwestern Africa and funneled through an extensive yet almost completely unknown human trafficking network spanning the entire African continent.
While a young girl, Tupa was abducted from southwestern Africa and funneled through an extensive yet almost completely unknown human trafficking network spanning the entire African continent. She was transported from the point...
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Patience Portefeux, fifty-three, an underpaid Franco-Arab judicial interpreter for the Ministry of Justice who specialises in telephone tapping. Widowed after the sudden death of her husband, Patience is now wedged between university fees for her two grown-up daughters and nursing home costs for her ageing mother. She's laboured for twenty-five years to keep everyone's heads above water. Happening upon an especially revealing set of police wiretaps...
14) Little death
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An erotic thriller from the director of Psychopathia sexualis, the Little death offers a peek into the seedy boudoirs of a Victorian-era brothel, where a strong-willed reformer ventures into a turn-of-the-century brothel to confront its owner, and to liberate a young woman who is being held there in sexual captivity.
15) The sex trade
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Sex Trade is a study of the contemporary sex trade, a true global industry, both online and off. Part investigative report and part editorial, the film is a foray into a brutal world where key players claim prostitution is simply a service like any other. But who benefits? High-end and street prostitution, escort agencies, massage parlors, strip clubs, the porn industry, sex tourism - the sex trade is sprawling, and has even spread beyond major...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
There are more slaves in the world today than at any time in history. In this account of contemporary slavery, journalist Skinner travels around the globe to personally tell stories that need to be told--and heard. With years of reporting in such places as Haiti, Sudan, India, Eastern Europe, The Netherlands, and, yes, even suburban America, Skinner has produced a moving reportage on one of the great evils of our time. After spending four years infiltrating...
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"As wrenching and luminous as Omar El Akkad's What Strange Paradise and Mohsin Hamid's Exit West, a searing exploration of the global migration crisis that moves from Nigeria to Libya to Italy, from an exciting new literary voice. Able God works for low pay at a four-star hotel where he must flash his "toothpaste-white smile" for wealthy guests. When not tending to the hotel's overprivileged clientele, he muses over self-help books and draws life...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An urgent exposition of the pervasive human trafficking that lies just beneath the surface of the US economy-from the stories of its survivors"-- Provided by publisher
Ditmore tells the story of compulsory labor in the American economy, from the earliest indentured servants and enslaved people up to today. She shows that modern trafficking may present in the form of a teenage boy showing up on your doorstep to sell magazine subscriptions. She outlines...
20) Box 21
Author
Series
Ewert Grens thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Sold into sex slavery in their pursuit of better lives in Sweden, Lithuanian girls Lydia and Alena learn of a chance to secure their freedom and take revenge on their enslavers.
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