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How U.S. Budget Cuts
Prolong Slavery
TIME.com, June 28, 2011
By E. Benjamin Skinner
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during a visit at the Siem Reap Center, a shelter for sex-trafficking victims, in Cambodia on Oct. 31, 2010 Evan Vucci / AFP / Getty Images |
Three days before the U.S. congressional elections last fall, Hillary Clinton stood halfway around the world from Washington, pledging to young victims of human trafficking at Cambodia's Siem Reap Center that they would continue to enjoy the support of the U.S. State Department, which then provided some $336,000 to the shelter. The acclaimed center, situated near the magnificent temples of Angkor Wat, was an oasis of peace for some 50 survivors who, before they were rescued or escaped, had endured slavery in brothels, where they were forced to have sex with as many as 30 men a day. At the shelter, they received counseling, studied hairdressing, learned to sew, and otherwise worked to rebuild their lives and reclaim their humanity. In the evenings, they did aerobics together.
On Monday afternoon, some eight months after that visit, as she unveiled the State Department's 11th annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report to a packed room in the department's ornate Benjamin Franklin Room, Clinton only hinted that the result of the congressional elections had left in doubt the long-term value of her pledge to the survivors. "Even in these tight economic times, we need to find ways to do better," Clinton told the overflowing crowd.
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