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When EastEnders came to Dorset

April 2008

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Legendary early-’80s german post punk band Xmal Deutschland, part of the “Neue Deutsche Welle” (New German Wave) and still an all-girl act at that time (lead singer Anja Huwe, guitarist Manuela Rickers, Rita Simon on bass, Fiona Sangster on keyboards and drummer Caro May), opening for DAF at Feuerwache, Mannheim, Germany, in 1981 (photos by Matthias Wirtwein).

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Washington Post reviews Stephanie Hepburn and Rita Simon's book on #humantrafficking

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/human-trafficking-around-the-world-hidden-in-plain-sight-by-stephanie-hepburn-and-rita-j-simon/2013/08/16/f3abff0a-f87e-11e2-8e84-c56731a202fb_story.html

‘Human Trafficking Around the World: Hidden in Plain Sight’ by Stephanie Hepburn and Rita J. Simon

By John Tirman, Published: August 16 E-mail the writer

Human trafficking is one of those issues that rankles people even when they don’t understand its actual shape and scope. At least a dozen books have appeared in the past few years describing the horrors of sex trafficking, a gruesome practice of enslavement and perversion affecting millions of (mostly) girls the world over, including, with alarming frequency, in the United States. But as Stephanie Hepburn and Rita J. Simon point out in their encyclopedic study of global trafficking, the larger crime is forced-labor trafficking, which is three times greater than that for sex commerce. The official response to each is inadequate — under-resourced, legally fragile and too often complicit.

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