Post-quake Haiti: A sex trafficking hot spot:
In the wake of a catastrophe that leaves people fighting for food and shelter, you wouldn't expect there to be a market for prostitution. But the influx of foreign aid (or at least the promise of it) has served as a beacon of hope, drawing a growing number of Dominican women to the quake-ravaged country in search of sex work, Time magazine reports today. There is the lure not only of the pledged $5 billion in donations -- some 2 percent of which has actually made it to the country -- but also the flood of cash-strapped foreign aid workers. It seems desperation feeds on desperation.
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