Sofija

hmmmmmmmmm:

from War's Offensive on Women: The Humanitarian Challenge in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan by Julie A. Mertus:

"Many of these projects are flawed from the start because they are designed and funded by an outside donor according to a preconceived formula without regard to realities on the ground. In one early effort adapting an approach that had proved successful elsewhere, pregnant cows were given to some of the most desperate women. The notion was that the women would be able to keep the calf after birth and kill the cow for meat. The problem was that the people were so desperate for food that they all killed the cows for meat while they were still pregnant.

... well duh (and I hate the expression "duh")

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TEND TO LOSE INTEREST WHEN IT COMES TO: People who think it is okay to traffic other people, Bad, Mean and/or Stupid people, People who push religion, People who don't think and believe this is ok, Smoking, Laziness, Cold Soggy socks, Cat poop...Ugggghhhh there is not much more disgusting than men or women for that matter, who spit in the street, especially like two feet away from someone else. I mean big, throat-vibrating, phlegm-nasty spitting. Why is this acceptable? It makes me want to vomit.

HUMAN TRAFFICKING

1 million people are annually traded globally

50,000 women and children are brought to the US for sexual exploitation every year

An estimated 600,000 to 800,000 men, women, and children are trafficked across international borders yearly

From the total 600,000-800,000 people trafficked across international borders every year, 70 percent are female and 50 percent are children

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