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A California advocate against human trafficking says the method of shaming men who buy sex is a helpful tool to fight against traffickers.

JAMES VARGHESE, president of the Indian Rescue Mission, a well-known anti human trafficking organization that rescues young girls forced into the sex trade, has been awarded the prestigious Mother Teresa Memorial International Award for social justice by the Missionaries of Charity, Harmony Foundation and by Government of Maharashtra in Mumbai.

Annie Lobert worked for 16 years in the sex industry, battled cancer and got into drugs. But when she called out to Jesus from death's door, she found her Savior and the vision to comfort thousands of other victims of sex trade.

SALVATION TV (SAVN.TV) has 35 days left in its Kickstarter compaign to raise funds to produce "Hard Corps," a feature length documentary that uncovers the hidden coercion in the sex industry and the connection between porn and sex trafficking.

Pray for Yemen, one of the poorest Arab countries. A long drawn out civil war has crippled the nation's economy, and increased unemployment. There is widespread shortage of food, water and medical supplies in the country.

Sex work is such big business in Thailand that the International Labor Organization estimates, conservatively, that it generates 7 percent of the country’s gross domestic product.

ACCORDING to a report in Times of India, at least 6 gay and lesbian clubs have come up in Chennai for the first time in colleges and universities. That they don’t have the approval of the institutions does not deter them.

There is a record high of unemployment in the past 45 years. The current unemployment rate is 6.1%. Economists point to the 2016 demonetization as the primary reason behind this.

AROUND 1,000 Christian and Hindu women in Pakistan are forcibly converted to Islam and married to Muslim men every year, says a report released by Movement for Solidarity and Peace (MSP) on April 7.

SOUTH Korean newspaper JoongAng Ilbo reported that the so-called criminals were put to death in seven cities across North Korea on Nov. 3, in the first known large-scale public executions by the Kim Jong-un regime.