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Unreported World (C4); A Picture Of Britain (BBC1)
WATCHING Sam Kiley trying to get to grips with child prostitution in India in Unreported World on Channel 4 on Saturday evening, I was torn between admiration and frustration.
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A LONDON Olympics hopeful has been jailed on prostitution charges after being arrested by police in Raipur, central India.
High jumper Nisha Shetti - in training for the 2012 games - told a court she turned to vice because she did not have enough money to feed her four-year-old daughter.
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FAIR play to Irish rugby star Gordon D'Arcy for helping aid charity GOAL highlight the issue of prostitution in Calcutta in India.
It is truly shocking that girls as young as 14 have to sell their bodies.
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SIX mysterious London deaths attributed to the "curse of Tutankhamun" were murders by a Satanist called Aleister Crowley, a historian claims in a new book.
Throughout the Twenties and Thirties London was gripped by Tutankhamun, the Egyptian boy-king whose tomb was uncovered by British archaeologist Howard Carter.
... advocating sexual promiscuity and prostitution. Beynon paints a picture of a dangerous schizophreenic known to have murdered his servants in India. Outlining his theory, Beynon said: "When I resear...
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The article explores the social, cultural and economical processes that lead Roma children into labour and their own interpretations of the value and risks of working. Based on qualitative research in several Roma communities in Romania the article analyses the different family strategies in coping with the economic difficulties of transition and the place of children in this process. The article is interested in the relationship between children and family, school and community and attempts to decipher what aspects in these relations encourage early entry into work. It argues that Roma children do occasional, poorly skilled, work that is relevant in their family economy, but invisible in and acceptable for broader society. Ultimately, the article argues that casting the situation of Ro...
..., forcibly recruited, made to enter prostitution, trafficked, forced to do illegal activities and e... in a certain type of work (MV Foundation, India). Although this last definition risks oversimplify...
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DEPLOYING her husky and mischievous chuckle, Felicity Kendal laughs to recall her early encounters with prostitution.
It was back in the Sixties in Shepherd Market, Mayfair. An innocent teenage belle in full bloom, she had left India to make it as an actress in London and had secured a room here from a gay Indian antiques dealer called Nicky. Outside, seedily optimistic old men would chance their luck.
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... to escape from a life of promiscuous prostitution which seems to be the alternative to emigration. ....
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A Welshman in India saw children in need and decided to act. Steffan Rhys reports AS HE strolled past swarms of children, some as young as four and others missing limbs, begging on the roads and in the railway stations of the town of Guntur in the Indian province of Andhra Pradesh, Martin Rees was struck by an overwhelming need to intervene in some way.
But the pastor from Llwydcoed, near Aberdare, had no idea when he managed to acquire some land in the town last February that he would, within a year, be on the verge of opening an orphanage that will save dozens of lives and create a lasting legacy.
... child from a life of poverty, prostitution and destitution in India by adopting a needy young...
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There's Helen Bamber (a founding member of Amnesty International and founder of the Helen Bamber Foundation, the human rights charity, where Emma Thompson is also on the board), Jolanta Kwasniewski (the former first lady of Poland), Katie Ford (former chief executive of Ford Models), Renuka Chowdhury (India's minister for women and child development), Dr Saisuree Chutikul (a former cabinet minister of Thailand). Moving the focus away from the sex industry, UN.Gift is working on a number of initiatives to tackle human trafficking in different contexts: the use of children in armed conflicts in West and Central Africa, exploring the "power of the pulpit" to inform and warn about trafficking in faith-based communities, such as in South Africa, encouraging cross-national co-operation in th...
... in south-east Asia (where trafficked prostitution is a huge problem), working with "post-conflict" c...
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SITTING at home on a comfy sofa in her spotless bungalow, 79- year-old Mary Edmonds looks every inch the contented grandmother. She sifts eagerly through photographs of her four children and six grandchildren, talking proudly of their achievements.
Mary also takes great pleasure in the garden she has tended for 46 years. So far, so ordinary. But all is not as it seems. Because since the death of her beloved husband Phil in May 1993, Mary has led a far from conventional existence. In fact she's travelled the world -- without the comforts of sedate cruises or cosseted tours.
She's been to north Nepal, Venezuela, India, Egypt, Ecuador, Mauritius, Malaysia, Zimbabwe and...The child prostitution in Bangkok horrified me and there's such a huge di...