Rights Group Targets Sex Ads -- Claims Online 'Escorts' Deal in Human Trafficking

The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current) › January 17, 2011

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With a study of a popular website offering adult advertisements for "escorts," a young human rights group in Memphis is calling for action to reduce human trafficking in the local sex industry.

The group, Operation Broken Silence , this week released a report that studied Memphis-area female escort listings for the final three months of 2010 placed on the classified advertisement website backpage.com .

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Rights Group Targets Sex Ads -- Claims Online 'Escorts' Deal in Human Trafficking

Ryan Dalton, 23, a first-year law student at the University of Memphis, is the "anti-trafficking director" for Operati...

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