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Definitions for sexual slavery
sex·u·al slav·e·ry

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  1. sexual slaverynoun

    A criminal activity that involves forced sexual acts upon a person who is usually held hostage as a slave.

Wikipedia

  1. Sexual slavery

    Sexual slavery and sexual exploitation is an attachment of any ownership right over one or more people with the intent of coercing or otherwise forcing them to engage in sexual activities. This includes forced labor, reducing a person to a servile status (including forced marriage) and sex trafficking persons, such as the sexual trafficking of children.Sexual slavery may also involve single-owner sexual slavery; ritual slavery, sometimes associated with certain religious practices, such as ritual servitude in Ghana, Togo and Benin; slavery for primarily non-sexual purposes but where non-consensual sexual activity is common; or forced prostitution. The Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action calls for an international effort to make people aware of sexual slavery, and that sexual slavery is an abuse of human rights. The incidence of sexual slavery by country has been studied and tabulated by UNESCO, with the cooperation of various international agencies.

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  1. Sexual slavery

    Sexual slavery is the slavery of unwilling people for sexual exploitation. The incidence of sexual slavery by country has been studied and tabulated by UNESCO, with the cooperation of various international agencies. Sexual slavery may include single-owner sexual slavery, ritual slavery sometimes associated with certain religious practices, such as trokosi in Ghana/Togo/Benin, slavery for primarily non-sexual purposes but where non-consensual sex is common, or forced prostitution. The Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action calls for an international response in order to attempt to eradicate sexual slavery on the basis that it is a human rights issue.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sexual slavery in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sexual slavery in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of sexual slavery in a Sentence

  1. Somaly Mam:

    I am so grateful for all the friends who have not believed the allegations about me ... and are helping me figure out how to carry on helping girls in sexual slavery and those at risk for it, we have worked non-stop to recover and reorganize.

  2. Amnesty International:

    Soldiers and militias subjected Tigrayan women and girls to rape, gang rape, sexual slavery, sexual mutilation and other forms of torture, often using ethnic slurs and death threats, given the context, scale, and gravity of the sexual violence committed against women and girls in Ethiopias Tigray, the violations amount to war crimes and may amount to crimes against humanity.

  3. Pope Francis:

    But when Pope Benedict became Pope, the first thing( Pope Benedict said was) bring me this from the archives and Pope Benedict began, pope Benedict had the courage to dissolve a women's congregation that had a certain level because this slavery of women had entered, even sexual slavery, by clerics or by the founder.

  4. Paula Barrios:

    (It) is the first time a national court has recognized and established state troops were responsible for subjecting women, the majority indigenous women in this case, to sexual slavery and exploitation and that sexual violence was used as a weapon of war, this ruling sets a very important example and precedent for criminal proceedings and convictions involving sexual violence in conflict that's not only relevant for Guatemala but other countries like Colombia in armed conflict.

  5. The Vatican:

    When the Holy Father, referring to the dissolution of a Congregation, spoke of' sexual slavery,' he meant' manipulation,' a form of abuse of power which is reflected also in sexual abuse.


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  • العبودية الجنسيةArabic

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