-one million children each year are exploited in the global commercial sex trade
-50% of all trafficking victims worldwide are children
-70-95% of the women in prostitution were sexually assaulted and/or raped according to a study of nine countries
-50% of HIV-infected children, in the absence of any treatment, die by their second birthday
-2.3 million girls and women work as prostitutes and madams in India
-2,000 girls are rescued from sex-slavery each year in India
-200,000 persons are trafficked into, within or through India anually
-$400 million in revenue is generated in Bombay's red-light district
Thursday, October 11, 2007
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