A recent ILO study finds an estimated $28 billion is made from trafficking for sexual exploitation every year.

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Danziger says stories about human trafficking usually focus on women and girls used for sexual exploitation.

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"However,despite this widespread support for, and awareness of the rights of the child, there persist severe violations, including violence, sexual abuse and exploitation, child trafficking and forced labor,"

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Of course some women are empowered but they are not the increasing number of women who are subject to sexual trafficking, so we need to tread a little carefully with those types of claims.

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But with renewed focus on the sexual trafficking of underage girls in the New Year including a month-long campaign by the White House, the focus at Super Bowl XLVI will be the protection of girls and the prosecution of the men and women who specialize in their sale for sex.

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Forced marriage, "honour" killings, trafficking for sexual exploitation and female genital mutilation are all crimes exclusively or mainly perpetrated against women.

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