• Articles by Laura J. Lederer, J.D.
  • Josephine Butler:  A Century Long Battle to End International Sex Trafficking (PDF)
  • Addressing Demand: Examining New Practices
    
  • Female Feticide and its Impact on Human Trafficking
    
• Research Papers
  • Demand for Victims of Sex Trafficking by Donna M. Hughes

Global Centurion in the News

27 January 2010 – The Washington Times

With 1-child policy, China ‘missing’ girls

‘Gendercide’ fueling sex trade

By Cheryl Wetzstein

When Chinese officials created the country’s one-child-per-couple policy in 1978, they intended to contain the country’s burgeoning population for the sake of economic growth, national security and environmental preservation. But Chinese boys now outnumber Chinese girls by the millions, and the impact of the lopsided sex imbalance is starting to
spill beyond China’s borders…Read More

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30 October 2009 – The University of Michigan LSA Alumni & Friends
Stop the Traffic

By Rebekah K. Murray

One alumna builds a movement
to end human trafficking, a modern-day form of slavery.

Tana was 14 years old when she ran away from her abusive family in India. While on the street, she met a stranger who offered her a place to sleep for the night. When she woke up, she discovered that she had been sold to a brothel. When she tried to leave, she was beaten by the brothel keepers until she lacked the strength to resist. For the next two years, she was held in the brothel and forced to do the bidding of the customers…Read More