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Some women in Nepal try to spot young women who are bring trafficked out to India.
Reading between the lines, I get the impression this traffic is rooted in a combination of naivety on the part of young women (isn't there an effort to teach them that these offers are probably phony?) combined with prudish prejudice on the part of parents. I suspect that some of them wanted to, in effect, sell their daughters into marriage, and those lose value as brides if they get a "bad" reputation.
These are the things that need to be changed to put a real crimp in trafficking.
Destigmatizing sex work in India would also help, as that stigma encourages and facilitates keeping prostitutes as slaves.
Why we should ban corporations from buying back their stock. It was Reagan that legalized this, which should make anyone suspicious.
Sabotage of US wildlife refuges: permitting use of neonicotinoid pesticides and others (Roundup, etc.) in some of them.
China regularly imposes censorship on Chinese people living abroad by threatening their relatives in China.
Censorship now goes beyond politics — anything lewd or disorderly is now banned. Thus sexual repression joins political repression.
With mountaintop removal coal mining, you don't need to be a miner to be made sick by the dust from the mine.
Considering the toxic effects of burning coal, we ought to ban coal mining entirely.