Worldcrunch Magazine #39 — Pageant Trafficking: How Venezuela's Beauty Queens Are Forced Into Prostitution

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The cover story, by Ronna Rísquez, Lorena Meléndez, Sheyla Urdaneta, Liz Gascón & Ahiana Figueroa for Colombian news outlet El Espectador focused on how beauty contests have become a tool to lure hundreds of Venezuelan girls and women into the continental sex trade.

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Table of Contents

For Ukraine, It May Be Time To Crack Down On Draft Dodgers | Livy Bereg By Anna Steshenko

The De-Russification Dream: Could A Ukraine Victory Remake Central Asia? | Livy Bereg By Oleksandr Merezhko

Migrant Standoff At Polish-Belarusian Border May Be Set To Explode | Gazeta Wyborcza By Joanna Klimowicz & Ekaterina Lemonjava

How Venezuelan Beauty Pageants Feed A Global Sex Trafficking Ring | El Espectador By Ronna Rísquez, Lorena Meléndez, Sheyla Urdaneta, Liz Gascón & Ahiana Figueroa

Dog Cloning, Cat Seafood: China’s Over-The-Top Pet Market | Les Echos By Frédéric Schaeffer

Italy’s Crackdown On Same-Sex Parents Could Dissolve Families | La Stampa By Laura Berlinghieri

“Slave Grandparent” — When Child Care Is Unloaded On Grandma | Clarín By Guadalupe Rivero

Purebreds To “Rasse” Theory: A German Critique Of Dog Breeding | Die Welt By Wieland Freund