Trafficking - the Human Rights Issue of the 21 Century
Lured with jobs as nannies, waitresses or dancers, new husbands and boyfriends, or plainly stolen on the way home, many Eastern European and Asian women fall into the crutches of sex slave trade. Each year, about 500,000 women and girls from developing countries and countries with economies in transition are entrapped in Western Europe alone (Trafficking – A new War on Women by Katherine Carpenter). To these women, servicing a dozen men a day seems like the “easy” part of their plight. Bearing the beatings, the starvation or life without kidneys or other organs takes their inhumane ordeal to another level.

To learn more about the issue, check out the following books and sites:
The Natashas : Inside the New Global Sex Trade by Victor Malarek
Woman, Child for Sale: The New Slave Trade in the 21st Century by Gilbert King
A modern slave's brutal odyssey - BBC News

International Organization for Migration (IOM) - Counter-Trafficking Projects
La Strada – Prevention of Traffic of Women - Belarus, Bosna & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, Poland, Ukraine
International Catholic Migration Commission – Albania, Croatia, Lebanon, Indonesia, South-Eastern Europe