It's been really long since I wrote something meaningful on this blog. (Notice the pronoun 'this' - Yes. I do maintain another unlisted blog too!) Among other reasons, I've been finding lesser and lesser things to talk about over here. It seems my scope of talk is getting reduced. I am feeling an increasing lack of freedom even as I write over here. And then, there's the ever-maddening work.

I can talk about a lot of things to write over here, but if they aren't attracting people (and comments), the narcissist in me feels this unfathomable suffocation. And there is no point in uselessly talking about things I don't want to talk about. Talking/Writing about something you don't care much about would be injustice to the subject itself, and that is one thing this Ariens would not do.

What Ariens do, however, is run away from arguments. And people like this dead blogger over here, try every possible means in their hands to try and get meek and submissive people like me to argue about something or the other. OK, calling myself meek and submissive might be an exaggeration, but deal with it - I hate arguments. I hate them to an extent that I prefer being lebelled uncompromising rather than argumentative, which is another undesirable quality.

please look at the below...provided by http://www.catw-ap.org/facts.htm

Trafficking and Prostitution in Asia and the Pacific
The world wide number of international migrants rose between the years 1965 to 1995 from 75 to about 130 million people.
As many as 80% of the 236 women in prostitution interviewed in Battambang were found to have been trafficked.
By the time they arrive in Japan, most trafficked Thai women have accumulated on average around 4 million Japanese yen, approximately $25,000 US in debt. Thirty percent of the women in prostitution in Cambodia were below the age of 17.
But the youngest was found to be twelve. 1995 estimates of the total revenue from prostitution in Thailand is approximately 59-60% of the government's budget for that year. In 1991, 1992 and 1993 approximately 100 to 150 Bangladeshi women were brought into Pakistan and at least 2,000 are languishing in jails and shelters across the country.
The total number of prostitutes in India is 7,936,509. UNICEF estimates that there are at least a million child prostitutes in Asia alone with the greatest numbers in India, Thailand, Taiwan and the Philippines.
A study done by Chris De Stoop reveals that trafficking in Europe most often involves Asian women. Australia Federal Police estimate that prostitution grosses A$30 million annually.
International crime syndicates traffic both drugs and women; 10 smaller syndicates are known to traffic up to 300 Thai women yearly.
Asian women are to be found in prostitution particularly in Canberra, Victoria and Queensland.
Russian women have also been recruited for "tabletop dancing" in clubs that often have links to brothels.


INDIA: A quarter of the total number of prostitutes are minors, in over 1,000 red-light districts all over India. Cage prostitutes are often minors, often from Nepal and Bangladesh. Forms of trafficking: economic incentives offered to parents to part with their children, fake jobs or marriage promises, abductions. The promotion of tourism in Goa and Madurai, two of India's major beach holiday destinations, appears to be resulting in rising numbers of prostituted children. In India alone, there are an estimated 2.3 million in prostitution, a quarter of whom are minors and children.

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