Summary of Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn's Half the Sky

By IRB Media

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#1 The world’s most vulnerable girls are sold into sex slavery. The world’s most vulnerable boys are sold into armies in Asia and Africa. They are the future laborers, soldiers, and taxpayers of the world, but they are treated like animals. This bleak picture is not a product of conjecture or lazy journalism but of painstaking research. The United Nations defines human trafficking as the recruitment, transportation, harboring, or receipt of a person by another for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation may include, but is not limited to, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs. -> The world’s most vulnerable girls are sold into sex slavery.

#2 The world’s most vulnerable girls are sold into sex slavery. The world’s most vulnerable boys are sold into armies in Asia and Africa, and they are treated like animals.

#3 The world’s most vulnerable girls are sold into sex slavery. The world’s most vulnerable boys are sold into armies in Asia and Africa, and they are treated like animals.

#4 The world’s most vulnerable girls are sold into sex slavery. The world’s most vulnerable boys are sold into armies in Asia and Africa, and they are treated like animals.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Oct 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350040081

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Insights on Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn's Half the Sky

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The red-light district in the town of Forbesgunge does not actually have any red lights. It is a series of mud-walled family compounds, with thatch-roof shacks set aside for customers. Children play and scurry along the dirt paths.

#2

India has the most modern slaves, because it has the most prostitutes. Prostitutes in India are usually forced into the trade, and are rarely paid or given any sort of freedom.

#3

There was also a police officer who regularly visited the brothels and was serviced for free. Meena once went to the police station to ask for help, but the police sent her back after extracting a promise from the brothel not to beat her.

#4

We had thought of prostitution as something that women may turn to opportunistically or out of economic desperation. But in Hong Kong, we met an Australian prostitute who slipped Sheryl into the locker room of her men’s club to meet the local girls, who were there because they saw a chance to enrich themselves.

#5

Today, there are millions of women and girls who are actually enslaved in the sex trade. The term sex trafficking is a misnomer, because the problem isn’t sex nor is it prostitution as such. The problem is slavery.

#6

The transatlantic slave trade was the peak decade of the trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation. Today, there are few practical restraints on slave owners, and the trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation has actually worsened since the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and Indochina.

#7

Naina and Vivek were enslaved in a brothel in India, and their parents never came to get them. They were beaten, starved, and abused, but they never went to school and were rarely allowed out.

#8