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Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Lone child refugees in Europe forced to sell sex to pay smugglers, Harvard researchers say

Unaccompanied child refugees in Greece desperate to reach Britain and other parts of northern Europe are being forced to sell their bodies for sex in order to pay smugglers to help them with their journeys, according to a new report from Harvard University. The report, from Dr Vasileia Digidiki and Prof Jacqueline Bhabha at the university’s centre for health and human rights, reveals what they describe as a “growing epidemic of sexual exploitation and abuse of migrant children in...


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