Beyond the Soiled Curtain http://www.jamieebooth.com Wed, 03 Apr 2024 15:46:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 67119572 Beyond the Soiled Curtain http://www.jamieebooth.com/2009/08/beyond-the-soiled-curtain/ http://www.jamieebooth.com/2009/08/beyond-the-soiled-curtain/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:06:08 +0000 Jamie Booth http://www.jamieebooth.com/2009/08/beyond-the-soiled-curtain/ I have been on a pretty good reading kick lately.  Just finished the book, Beyond the Soiled Curtain by David and Beth Grant.  This book provides a glimpse of Falkland Road in Bombay, and reveals the atrocity of human trafficking and what organizations like Project Rescue (http://www.projectrescue.com/) are doing to combat it.

A few stats from the book regarding those sold into the sex-slave industry….

– Some are sold into a life of prostitution by their families for as little as $150.

– The average age of someone sold into prostitution is 13.

– 1 million children each year are exploited in the global commercial sex trade.

– 50% of all trafficking victims worldwide are children.

– 2.3 million girls and women work as prostitutes and madams in India alone.

– 400 million in revenue is generated each year by Bombay’s red light district.

I could go on, but I won’t.  I encourage you to check out the book.  It is an easy read in the sense that it is not dense reading, but in the sense you will come face-to-face with the ugly side of the world we live in, it is a very difficult book to take in.

On a related note, I was also introduced to another organization combating human trafficking, focusing on those in Greece.  You can check them out at http://www.thea21campaign.org/.

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