““A 2003 report by a division of the Cyprus government recently reported that more than 2,000 women a year, particularly those arriving from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics hoping for a better life, end up forced into prostitution and trafficked to other European and Arab countries.18 A United Nations report estimates that in Asia alone, about a million children work in the sex trade and are kept in slavery-like conditions (such as being locked in brothels and beaten if they are uncooperative, not to mention being undernourished and sedated with drugs””
