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Foreword and Framework    
Let Our Silenced Voices Be Heard: The Traffic in Asian Women
by Aurora Javate De Dios
   

Part I. Forms of Trafficking in Women

   
Some Forms of Trafficking in Women - The Results of a Survey
by Khadijah Gauhar
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Jugun lanfu, Karayuki, Japayuki: A Continuity in Commodifk:ation
by Lisa Go
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Women, Migration and the Mail-Order Bride Phenomenon: Focus on Australia (Abridged)
by Proserpina Domingo Tapales
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Chinese Hookers in Bangkok Brothels Take the Long Way Home
by Prangtip Daorueng
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Devdasi Custom and the Fight Against It (Abridged)
by Gail Omvedt
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Report to the Working Group of the UNCHR on Contemporary Trafficking in and Children in MalaysWomen ia (Abridged) Forms of Slavery
by Anti-Slavery Society
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Part II. National Experiences

   
Trafficking in Women and Children in Malaysia (Abridged)
by Anna Wong
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The Flesh Trade in Pakistan (Abridged)
by Neelam Hussain

 

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Country Report on the Trafficking of Women: The Case of Indonesia
by Wardah Hafidz and Syarifah Sabaruddin
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Part III. Fighting Back

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Exotic, Subservient and Trapped: Confronting Prostitutbn and Traffic in Women in Southeast Asia
by Siriporn Skrobanek
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Survey on 'Traffic in Women': Polbies and Policy-Research in an International Context (Excerpts)
by Nelleke van der VIeuten
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Part IV. Conventions and Resolutions

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Weaving the Future for Asian Women from AWHRC Conference on Traffic in Women   75
Recommendations of the Conference from European Working Conference on Trafficking in Women   80
Resolution on Crimes Against Gender: Traffic in Asian Women from IPFP Workshop on Crimes Against Gender   83
Statement on the Issue from APHD Workshop on Migration of Women, Sex Tourism and Prostitution   84
Women, Poverty and Prostitution: Statement of Position on the Issue from Isis-Wicce Exchange Programme 1991   86
Sexual Exploitation: A Human Rights Violation from CATW International Meeting of Experts   88

United Nations Convention for the Suppression of Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others

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Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery   95

Part V. Resources for Organizing and Action

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Directory of Publishers of Featured Articles   102
Selected Readings on the Topic of Traffic in Women Available at the Isis International Resource Center   103

Directory of Organizations Working on the Issue of Traffic in Women

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