Trafficking people, especially for sex, between Colombia and Mexico is rife and rising, buoyed in part by pervasive social and media contempt for the working-class girls who are among the chief victims.
Tag: sex trafficking
Colombia’s second-largest city has imposed a six-month ban on all prostitution in a bid to tackle the sexual exploitation of minors. But it only shows the government’s ignorance of — and possibly even indifference to — one of the city’s most shameful trades.
June 26 – July 2, 2023
Venezuela’s Aragua Train, which began smuggling women into jails a decade ago, has become an international forced prostitution and people-smuggling operation. A special investigation by Colombia’s El Espectador*.
Most of the many thousands of sex workers in Thailand walk the streets looking for clients. But one group of women wanted a safe home base, so they opened a bar where they can entertain clients.