“Virgin or whore?
Must I choose between the two?
Can’t I just be me?”
— human trafficking survivor (via goldenphoenixgirl)
“Virgin or whore?
The Golden Phoenix Girl: How to help a sexually abused friend:
Anonymous asked: hi, you and blog are amazing, your strength is incredibly humbling. I don’t know if you can advise me on this, but my partner was sexually abused as a child and he’s very much up and down but has come to terms with what happened. the thing is, I’m never sure how much to push…
“Child-victims of rape know their offender prior to the incident 90% of the time.”
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Lawrence A. Greenfeld, “Child Victimizers: Violent Offenders and Their Victims.” Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice; 1996.
And the data actually suggest far more than 90%, because in surveys nearly anyone will admit to being raped by a stranger, but it’s much more embarrassing and less likely that you’ll admit that a friend or member of your family molested you.
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(Source: gynocraticgrrl, via goldenphoenixgirl)
“(TW: rape, child abuse) Child-victims of rape know their offender prior to the incident 90% of the time.”
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(via gynocraticgrrl)Lawrence A. Greenfeld, “Child Victimizers: Violent Offenders and Their Victims.” Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice; 1996.
The Olive Branch Project: Traffickers target displaced Kachin on Chinese border
A growing number of Kachin women are being trafficked over the Chinese border as criminal networks target vulnerable populations uprooted by the ongoing civil conflict, humanitarian groups have warned.
Five Kachin women were discovered missing from camps near Majayang last week suspected…
(via humantraffickingexists)
Photograph: “An angry brothel owner gouged out Pross Long’s (left) eye with a stick. But now, Sina (right) has helped her regain her self esteem.”
Until a few years ago, Sina was a sex slave in Phnom Penh, Cambodia as well. Incredibly, after escaping the hell of daily serial rape, she chose to go back and confront human traffickers like the one who enslaved her. Sina continues to go back to this underworld nearly every day, often risking her own life, to help women and girls out of sex slavery and into lives of self-sufficency and purpose.
Read more about Sina at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peggy-callahan/the-freedom-awards-celebr_b_318414.html
(Source: lg-media.blogspot.com, via humantraffickingexists)
Myth: Human trafficking only occurs in illegal underground industries.
Reality: Elements of human trafficking can be identified whenever the means of force, fraud, or coercion induce a person to perform commercial sex acts, or labor or services. Trafficking can occur in legal and legitimate business settings as well as underground markets.
