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Compassion: Trafficking Survivor Stories | Force 4 Compassion - 0 views

www.f-4-c.org/stories.asp human trafficking survivors stories Libya UAE woman men
shared by ccfuentez on 31 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • ccfuentez on 31 Mar 16
     
    This article gives many different stories of survivors who were once a part of human trafficking. It includes the story of a 23 year old who was beaten and threatened to be buried in the desert when she refused to prostitute and men who sold family land for jobs only to be given only half the promised wages and nearly starved.
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3 Survivors Reveal the Brutal Reality of Female Genital Mutilation - 0 views

www.cosmopolitan.com/...al-mutilation-survivor-stories reality female genital egypt
shared by diamond03 on 01 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • 3 Survivors Reveal the Brutal Reality of Female Genital Mutilation
  • According to the AHA Foundation, up to 228,000 girls and women in the U.S. are vulnerable to what's called "vacation cutting," when parents send their daughters to stay with their families abroad and to endure female genital mutilation (FGM)
  • they make themselves invisible
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  • "We have a culture of silenc
  • "Most women won't share their stories because they are afraid of what will happen to them, what will happen to their parents."
  • The shame runs so deep that girls are taught to never look at or touch their genitals, and most of them have never been to a gynecologist
  • don't even know they have been mutilated until they attempt to have sex, at which time they often need to be cut open again to consummate a marriage.
  • I was 6 and my sister was 3 at the time.
  • Dukureh has been the only U.S.-based survivor to speak up so publicly against FGM
  • We were there three months. We ate out of one shared bowl.
  • We went into a home, and immediately women grabbed and blindfolded us and tied us to some thick bushes.
  • There was loud drumming and older women were singing songs, which I was too young to understand.
  • . I saw an old woman holding a knife so sharp I could see the drops of blood sliding down the edge.
  • it is common practice to circumcise infant
  • I can still feel the weight of her today
  • t. What the cutter does is hold on to your clitoris to make sure she gets that and scrapes everything else that comes along with it — all of the labia,
  • we were left to bleed into little dirt holes for hours.
  • Three other women were holding down my arms and legs, and another was sitting right on my chest, covering my mouth
  • receive our "treatment
  • They took dried leaves and placed them on the wound and that would stay on for two to three days
  • We were also taught, every day, that if we ever talked about this, if we even mentioned it, they would kill us.
  • I learned two of them later died in childbirth, which was too difficult for them because of FGM. They bled to death.
  • h the rite of passage
  • This is who we are."
  • She cannot have kids as a result of her FGM.
  • I will never take them back. My family will never see them.
  • diamond03 on 01 Dec 14
     
    ! This article shares 3 stories of women who have gone through the FGM procedure. They tend to consider FGM as the "Right of Passage" for young worn. Many women die in childbirth or have complications because of the results of FGM. 
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Charlie Hebdo attack - 7 views

www.independent.co.uk/...massacre-survivor-9976151.html Charlie Hebdo survivor
shared by waldrons on 15 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • waldrons on 28 Jan 15
     
    Survivor recalls encounter with Charlie Hebdo
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I Was Gassed by Bashar al-Assad | Foreign Policy - 0 views

foreignpolicy.com/...-was-gassed-by-bashar-al-assad foreign policy Damascus survivor starvation
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  • hkerby2 on 15 Feb 15
     
    This article is a view of the chemical warfare in Syria from someone who survived the attacks in Damascus. The survivor writes of how joining the OPCW will do nothing in saving and protecting the Syrian people and how by taking away chemical warfare it will jut lead to Assad regimes finding new ways, such as starvation, to kill the innocent people of Syria.
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Five Algerian, Tunisian, Libyan 'Smugglers' Arrested as Survivors Say They Trapped Hund... - 0 views

migrantreport.org/hundreds-in-sinking-boats-hold human smuggling France Algerian Tunisian Libyan shipwreck
shared by ccfuentez on 10 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • ccfuentez on 10 Mar 16
     
    A group of 5 men, aged 21-24, were arrested recently for taking a boat full of 200 people and trying to illegally smuggle them across waters. If anyone tried to escape the tightly packed boat, one of the five men would beat them with sticks and knives and forced them back inside.
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