Dr Donna M. Hughes is a leading international researcher on trafficking of women and children. She has completed research on the trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation in the United States, Russia, Ukraine, and Korea.
She does research and writing on women's rights. Her topic areas include: violence, slavery, sexual exploitation, Islamic fundamentalism, and women's organized resistance to violence and exploitation. She also works on issues related to women, science and technology.
She is frequently consulted by governments and non-governmental organizations on policy related to women's human rights, particularly on trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation. She has testified before the U.S. House International Relations Committee, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Moscow Duma, and the Czech Parliament.
Her research has been supported by the U.S. State Department, the National Institute of Justice, the National Science Foundation, the Association of American Colleges and Universities, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, the International Organization for Migration, the Council of Europe, the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education, University of Rhode Island Foundation, the University of Rhode Island Council for Research, and the University of Bradford, UK.
She is currently a professor of Women's Studies at the University of Rhode Island.
Testimonies of Ex-Porn Star Shelley Luben
Ms. Lubben is a former pornography performer and now an activist against the illegally operating porn industry in California where 85% of the world's adult content is produced. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Pink Cross Foundation, http://thepinkcross.org , dedicated to reaching out to adult industry workers offering emotional, financial and transitional support.
In March 2010 Shelley Lubben and three other former pornography performers testified at a Cal/OSHA hearing about the abuses of pornography. Additionally a current pornography performer and producer testified about the unsafe and the unhealthy conditions in pornography. Below are the hearing minutes summarizing Shelley's testimony.
Truths About Sex Trafficking & links to Porn - discussion w/ www.abolitioninternational.org
Related:
The Attack of the Porn Monster
pornharms.com
The War on Illegal Pornography
Shelly Lubben website
Half of Clergy Members View Porn Each Month
Porn Freedom
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