Many victim-survivors and scholars say ‘sex slaves’ more accurately describes the abuses the women endured, but governments have been slow to change their view.
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Children are not routinely being snatched from pizza parlors and sold into sexual slavery. Sex trafficking more often looks like ‘vulnerable people struggling to survive’ through sex.
Ntaganda’s conviction represents real progress, and an actual significant victory, for the ICC.
If Canada truly stands for multiculturalism, pluralism, the rule of law, global justice, human rights and the liberal international order, we must prosecute our citizens who have fought with ISIS.
Slavery still exists and it happens in plain sight.
Cyntoia Brown was just 16 years old when she shot and killed a man in 2004. Under Tennessee law, she won’t be eligible for parole until she is 67 years old. Is such a harsh sentence constitutional?
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Reader in Modern History, Loughborough University
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Executive Director, The Montréal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia University
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Professor of Professional Practice, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
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Assistant Professor of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies, Oklahoma State University
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Associate Professor International Law, Roskilde University
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Research Fellow of East Asia Studies, Lund University; Australian Catholic University