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Indigenous & Latina Women & Children's Human
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Confronting Impunity in the Americas
and the World
 Today in the United States, Canada,
the Caribbean and Latin America - Latina,
Indigenous
and African descendant women and
children are facing an unparalleled epidemic of severe
sexual harass-ment, rape with impunity and a well financed
international criminal industry of forced sexual slavery.
Responding to quickly changing modern realities,
we must actively defend them and also support the
spiritual healing of children, women and men, creating a
bright future of dignity, true equality
and freedom.
Literally millions of Latina and Indigenous
women and girl children are trapped by criminal sexual
exploitation today. Millions of others are
at risk.
Now is the time to act! |
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Confrontamos a
la Impunidad en las Américas
Las mujeres,
las niñas
(os) Latinos, Indígenas
e Afro-Descendientes de las Americas estan
frente a una epidemia incomparable del acoso sexual severo, violación
con la impunidad y una industria criminal, internacional y bien
financiada de la esclavitud sexual forzada.
Respondiendo a estas crecientes realidades, nosotros tenemos la
obligación de defenderlas. A la vez, buscamos metas para lograr la
curación espiritual de la poblaciòn de nuestras comunidades. Deseamos crear un futuro
brillante lleno de dignidad, igualdad y libertad verdadera.
Literalmente millones de mujeres, y niños Latinos e Indígenas
estan atrapados por la explotación sexual criminal hoy. Millónes más
viven en alto riesgo de caer en malas manos.
¡Ahora es el momento para tomar acción! |
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The
Worst Case in the U.S. |
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Latina Child Sex Slavery in San Diego,
California
'Child rape camps'
exist with impunity on U.S. soil!
Our special section on the
San Diego Crisis
describes one of the largest known child and youth
sex trafficking cases in the United States to
date.
In one of several related cases, hundreds
of Mexican girls between 7 and 18 were kidnapped
or subjected to false romantic entrapment by
organized criminal sex trafficking gangs.
Victims were then brought to San Diego County,
California.
Over a 10 year period these girls were
raped by hundreds of men per day in more than 2
dozen home based and agricultural camp based
brothels. Minor girls resisting this slavery
were brutally beaten. Some enslaved girls
may have been murdered.
These international criminal child
sex slavery networks continue to exist and
operate with impunity despite the important
efforts of San Diego, California and federal law
enforcement agencies to stop them.
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The San Diego Child Rape Camps:
Centenas de niñas , de 12 a 18 años de edad,
originarias de Puebla, Oaxaca, Michoacán,
Morelos y Veracruz, han sido secuestradas o
engañadas para ser despojadas de todos sus
derechos humanos y ser convertidas en esclavas
sexuales en los terregales de los campos
agrícolas.
San Diego County,
California
"...The first time I went to
the [child rape] camps ...It was truly grotesque
and unimaginable," recalls Patricia, our
fictitious name for a medical doctor who works
with government supplied resources, and who for
the last five years has been in contact with the
Salazar brothers, working to prevent HIV/AIDS
and other venereal diseases in these exploited
minor girls.
"...When I came here, in one hour I counted that
one little girl had been with 35 men, one after
the other. (Patricia)
"...I have seen myself how U.S. INS
agents have sex with these minor girls for free,
in exchange for protection. These agents
even enter the houses of prostitution in
uniform. May a lightning-bolt split me in
half if I am lying!"
(Patricia).
Read the ground-breaking
El Universal News Article:
In
English
En
Español |
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Street Children from
Brazil
What is this issue about?
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About Global Trafficking
An estimated
24 million persons are enslaved today on a
global level. Millions of victims are sex
slaves. |
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Latin American Introduction
Women and
children's basic right to the ownership of their
own bodies is routinely violated with impunity.
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Latin Indigenous Issues
About
five centuries of the deliberate targeting of
native women for rape. |
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U.S. Indigenous Issues
U.S.
indigenous women face 3.5 times the average rate
of rape in the U.S. Some 82% of
assailants are white men. |
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Latin American Slavery
Mafias and
other criminal gangs traffic 100,000 Latina
women and girls into sexual slavery each year.
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U.S. Latina Slavery
An estimated
18,000-20,000 slaves are "imported"
yearly. Many are women and girls from
Mexico/Central America. |
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Latina Child Sex Slavery in
San Diego, California
Hundreds of
children and youth are forced into 'child rape
camps' by traffickers.
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U.S. Latin Communities
Women and
girls routinely face impunity in daily community
life. |
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Abuse in Washington, DC
Daily coercion
and rape face Latina immigrant women and
underage girls. |
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"Violence against women in Washington [DC] takes
many ugly forms, including slavery and forced
labor." |
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Latina Workplace Rape
Low wage
workers face managerial threats of 'give me
sex or get out!'
across the U.S. and Latin America.
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School Exploitation
Latina and indigenous girls and youth have faced
school-based sexual abuse across the Americas
for 100 years. |
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Forced Sexual Sterilization
Indigenous and
Latina women and youth have been sterilized
against their will by the hundreds of thousands.
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LibertadLatina's
Index of sexual slavery issues. |
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Afro-Latinas face severe sexism and
racism.
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During the 1980's indigenous
Mayans faced a Cold War
genocide. An estimated
200,000 innocent people were
murdered, including 50,000
women.
Almost all Mayan females
of any age
were raped. |
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In the aftermath, today, Guatemala's
women and girls confront over 500
acts of torture/rape/murders per year.
Guatemala's criminal justice system does
not investigate, nor does it prosecute
these crimes against women and girls. |
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MISSING
Jacqueline Maria
Jirón Silva
This case provides a
rare photograph that reflects the
real tragedy facing tens of thousands of
children
across the Americas.
Child sex trafficking is
today growing rapidly and
with impunity in every
Latin American nation.
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Kidnapped at Age 11
Necesitamos ayuda en Chiapas,
para ubicar a esta Niña.
Alianza por tus
derechos ha
recibido informes de que esta niña ha sido vista en
Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico, un infierno-en-vida
donde la mayoria de los 21,000 Centroamericanos forzados a
prostituirsen son niñas y niños.
Update - October 31, 2007 -Nicaraguan
girl kidnapped into forced prostitution at age 11 in 2004
is now known to be held in Tapachula, Mexico,
a hell-on-earth where most of the 21,000 Central Americans
prostituted there are enslaved children.
We need your help to find her! |
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Jacqueline Maria Jirón Silva
was constantly moved from brothel to brothel after she was first
kidnapped "because she cried so much."
End
Impunity Now! |
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"Society’s
silence is the main accomplice in allowing widespread impunity.
Latin America and the Caribbean face enormous challenges... The region will have to
bring out into the open this increasingly disturbing reality;
and it will have to struggle against the high degree to which
society tolerates or practices inconceivable forms of aggression
against the most vulnerable individuals in society...
It is everywhere, among rich and
poor -- at home, in school, in the workplace and in the
community. Yet... the vast scale of
this outrage is still not widely acknowledged, nor even truly
understood".
Former
UNICEF Executive Director
Carol Bellamy
International Women’s
Day Speech – 1999. |
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