2024年12月11日星期三

servitude, abduct, human/ sex trafficking, easy prey for exploitation. had a precipitous fall after women filed lawsuits accusing them of sexual assault.

Prominent Real Estate Agents and Brothers Are Charged With Sex Trafficking

Oren and Tal Alexander had a precipitous fall after women filed lawsuits accusing them of sexual assault. Their brother Alon was also charged.

As Above So Below

/ Aldous Huxley /
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"Aldous Huxley was a famous Novelist from England, who lived between July 26, 1894 and November 22, 1963.
Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer, who in retrospect, is best known for the dystopian future satire Brave New World (Brave New World) from 1932.
He moved to the U.S. in 1937, to escape the anticipated war in Europe, and lived in Los Angeles until his death in 1963. He wrote in most genres: novels, short stories, poems, travelogues, essays, prose and screenplay. In the interwar period, he wrote "cynical fable about how modern psychology and science had broken down traditional values ​​and led to rootlessness  among the intellectuals." From the late 20th century, he writes of "large ethical seriousness and [affected] by his interest in mysticism and parapsychology...."

EDITOR’S PICKS
WAR IN UKRAINE

Russia uses abductions to intimidate Ukrainians in occupied territories

Pirates Beware: Soon Rifles That Kill from a Mile Away

By Mark Thompson / Washington

The Maersk Alabama pirates were shot from 30 yards away. Future abductors might be accurately targeted from a much greater distance — if the Pentagon gets the gun it wants

Chinese Hunger for Sons Fuels Boys’ Abductions
By ANDREW JACOBSParents in eastern industrial areas receive little help in finding their children, whose kidnappings constitute a thriving business.

Nine-Year-Old Missing Girl Found By Police Using Google Street View
AHN - USA
Athol, MA (AHN) - A nine-year-old girl, who went missing as she was allegedly abducted by her grandmother, was tracked down by police using Google's Street ...

Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says that his Movement for Democratic Change will quit talks for a unity government if abductions of party members do not stop. Tsvangirai told reporters in Gabarone, Botswana, that the whereabouts of more than 42 members of the MDC and civil society were still unknown. Tsvangirai demanded that abductions cease and that all abductees be released or charged in a court of law by January the 1st 2009.

Children in Servitude, the Poorest of Haiti’s Poor
By MARC LACEY Thousands of poor Haitian children who are sent to live with wealthier families in the hopes of securing a better life are often easy prey for exploitation.
Search for kidnapped French aid workers underway in Afghanistan

Authorities in Afghanistan are searching for two French aid workers, who were kidnapped by unidentified gunmen on Friday. The French nationals working for the humanitarian group Action Contre la Faim were abducted in Neli in Daikundi Province. As a result of the kidnapping, ACF has suspended its current relief operations in Afghanistan, which it said benefited more than 130,000 people in 2007.

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"All around the world it's happening and people see it but they're not aware of it." — Kevin Kline, on human trafficking

abduct verb [T]
to force someone to go somewhere with you, often using threats or violence:
The company director was abducted from his car by terrorists.

abduction
noun [C or U]
There has been a series of abductions of young children from schools in the area.
He was charged with abduction.

abductor
noun [C]
She was tortured by her abductors.
━━ vt. 誘拐する; 【解】外転させる.

ab・duc・tion　━━ n.

ab・duc・tor　━━ n. 誘拐者, 誘拐犯; 【解】外転筋.

traf・fick・ing

━━ n. （麻薬などの）密売, 不正取引.

Trafficking of human beings is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of people for the purpose of exploitation.
Trafficking involves a process of using illicit means such as threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability.
Exploitation 剝削 includes persons forced into prostitution or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs. For children exploitation may include also, illicit international adoption, trafficking for early marriage, recruitment as child soldiers, for begging or for sports (such as child camel jockeys or football players).^[1]
Wikipedia article "Trafficking in human beings".

人口販賣

維基百科，自由的百科全書

人口販賣是指以剝削、利用為目的，而進行的招募、運輸、移送、提供或取得某人。
人口販賣的過程通常會牽涉到非法的手段，例如以暴力威脅、其他形式的強迫、綁架、詐騙等方式。
剝削的內容包括強迫賣淫或其他類型的性剝削、強迫勞動、奴役、摘除器官等。兒童的剝削形式也包括非法的國際領養、強迫在年幼時結婚、招募為童兵、或是進行非自願的乞討^[1]。