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9 Than enforcing the law: “Off the Streets: Arbitrary Detention and Other Abuses Against Sex Workers in Cambodia,” Human Rights Watch, July 2010, www.hrw.org. The abuse of prostituted women and girls is documented in activist Somaly Mam’s wrenching memoir of her life as a sex slave in Cambodia in The Road of Lost Innocence (New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2008).
10 Are still sex slaves: The modern slave trade is larger than the slave trade was at its peak in the nineteenth century and is the second largest industry in the world. There are many outstanding books and resources that deal with the problem and offer viable solutions. For the outstanding 2010 report that reflects the most recent and best thinking, Developing a National Plan for Eliminating Sex Trafficking, and others, please see www.huntalternatives.org. For books, see Siddharth Kara, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), David Bat-stone, Not for Sale (New York: HarperOne, 2010), and Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter, The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009).
11 Addresses unsafe drinking water: PSI also distributes at no cost our products and services in many settings, especially emergencies, such as the Haitian earthquake of 2010, and in refugee and internally displaced persons camps.
12 White-shirted Buddhist nuns: The “Wat Granny” program is funded in part by USAID (www.usaid.gov/kh/health/activities.htm) in partnership with the Cambodian Ministry of Health, PSI, the grassroots Reproductive Health and Child Alliance (www.racha.org), and others.
Chapter 7
1 Education and prevention program: Christine Gorman, “Sex, AIDS and Thailand,” July 12, 2004, www.time.com.
2 Not personally at risk: United Nations Development Programme, “Opinion Poll on HIV/AIDS Thailand, 2004,” www.undp.or.th/download/OpinionPollAIDS.pdf.
3 An AIDS hospice run by Buddhist monks: Seth Mydans, “Thai AIDS Survivors Ostracized,” October 15, 2006, www.nytimes.com.
Chapter 8
1 A “God who looks like me”: Some of the thoughts in this passage are inspired by Patricia Lynn Reilly, A God Who Looks Like Me (New York: Ballantine, 1995), and Sue Monk Kidd, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter (New York: HarperCollins, 1996).
2 The full support of his government: Unfortunately, despite Prime Minister Thaksin’s promises, the Thai government’s commitment to AIDS prevention and education waned under his leadership (www.avert.org/thailand-aids-hiv.htm). He was deposed in a military coup in 2006, regained power in 2008, and then went into exile after being charged with corruption. In 2010, his loyal followers staged violent protests in Bangkok, demanding his return to power.
3 An estimated thirty-eight million: Figures in this section are from UNAIDS, 2004 Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic, www.unaids.org.
4 Having trouble meeting the goal: Sarah Boseley, “Bangkok Blog,” The Guardian, July 16, 2004, www.guardian.co.uk.
Chapter 9
1 Half of the people live in poverty: United Nations Development Programme Human Development Index, http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/KEN.html.
2 “I Am Abstaining”: PSI’s 2010 monitoring, evaluation, and research on the Chill campaign reveal its ongoing success: 95 percent of the targeted youth continue to abstain.
3 In thirty-nine African countries: United Nations High Commission on Refugees NGO Directory, October 1, 2008, www.unhcr.org.
4 Slow to awaken: World Council of Churches, “Partnerships Between Churches and People Living with HIV/AIDS Organizations,” November 2003, www.scribd.com.
5 Equality Now: For more information, please see www.equalitynow.org.
6 Many girls hemorrhage to death: Sadly, deaths of girls who have been mutilated have never merited proper inventorying and statistical analysis.
7 Spread to this country: To read about asylum cases heard in American courts pertaining to FGM (for example, Abay v. Ashcroft), please see www.openjurist.com. And a case with a happy ending, in