Noel Brewer Yeatts

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Feb 12, 2023
On Super Bowl, remember dark tradition of girls groomed by parents for sex
In places like Thailand and India, these girls begin their careers as sex workers as young as 12 years old. The Banchara community calls the practice of placing your eldest daughter in the sex trade “Nari Mata.
Mar 8, 2020
International Women’s Day: Have you heard of sex slave tradition nari mata?
Those words mean she will add years to an already life sentence as a slave to the sex industry. She will add countless more nights of being used by men who don’t care about her.
Jan 11, 2020
National Human Trafficking Awareness Day: What are the options?
Som is getting older now … much older than the average sex worker in Thailand. But once her fourth child arrives, she will likely have no choice but to return to dancing and selling her body to earn an income. It’s the only thing she knows.
Dec 4, 2018
Breaking the chains of cultural slavery on the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
Although she didn’t wear physical chains, she was nevertheless a slave — a slave to poverty and to a society that normalized treating women like property.
Sep 26, 2016
How to Recover From Genocide? What Iraq Can Learn From Rwanda
During the worst moment of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, between 800,000 to 1 million people were killed in 100 days. Most were hacked to death with machetes.