No Longer Invisible: Families that Torture, Traffic, and Exploit their Girl Child

Jeanne Sarson; Linda MacDonald

doi:10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-0922

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Jeanne Sarson Independent
Linda MacDonald Independent

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-0922

Keywords:

Non-State torture families, sexualized human trafficking, exploitation, trafficked female children

Abstract

This paper discusses non-State torture families that organize the sexualized trafficking and exploitation of their girl child to their network of like-minded individuals and groups. They have eluded being identified in the extensive research that informs the Global Report on Trafficking in Persons (2014) by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. This means the trafficked and tortured girl child has been absent from the profile of trafficked children. Understanding the girl child’s position of vulnerability and complex relational victimization and traumatisation responses to being tortured, trafficked, and exploited is essential to recommending interventions that address socio-legal and knowledge gaps and promote the dignity and human rights of the girl child.

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Author Biography

Jeanne Sarson, Independent

Authors Jeanne and Linda are Canadian feminist human right activists, independent scholars, and grass root nurse supporters who have focussed their professional attention, since 1993, on seeking human equality, dignity, and social-legal inclusion for women and girls who have survived non-State torture (NST).

Professional postal address is: Persons Against Non-State Torture (NST), 361 Prince Street, Truro, Canada, B2N 1E4

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