Combating Human Trafficking - TMC News

Combating Human Trafficking - TMC News:

Clinicians can play a key role in Houston's war against sexual exploitation

Slavery trafficking victims crippled by fear in UK | UK | Al Jazeera

""In my experience, physical ill-treatment, including sexual abuse and rape, is often a central component at various stages or throughout the trafficking experience, for men, as well as for women. Trafficking is a form of obtaining complete control over a person, and the use of rape as a weapon is a powerful method of control," Witkin says."

""Men who have been trafficked primarily for other reasons - no matter what the trade or industry - have often also suffered sexual abuse and rape.""

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Franklin organization Doctors at War tackles global sex slave trade - Nashville Business Journal:

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A Middle Tennessee physician is behind a newly formed nonprofit organization aimed at fighting the global sex trade.

Dr. Daniel Bercu of Lawrenceburg is founder of Franklin-based Doctors at War, which will work on projects focused at the intersection of health care and human trafficking.

According to the organization’s Web site, human trafficking is the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world, with an estimated 27 million people trapped in slavery at the moment, more than half of them children.

Long-term health care ramifications include post-traumatic stress disorder, panic attacks, depression and other mental health issues as well as physical health problems such as HIV, sexually-transmitted diseases, malnutrition and sterility.

Hundreds of doctors from about 20 countries are already involved, the organization said in a news release today. Interested volunteers should visit the Web site www.doctorsatwar.org or call 1-888-552-8927.

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