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September 2007
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Youth Interrupted
By Tina Gerhardt, WireTap
A tragic and under-reported consequence of the War in Iraq is the increasing number of Iraqi refugees who are being forced into prostitution. With little savings and no legal work, more and more women and girls have no choice but sex work. One nonprofit in Syria, where many Iraqis seek refuge, is working to provide healthcare services to girls arrested for prostitution, and an intergovernmental organization is looking improve the legal situation by prosecuting sex traffickers. But as the situation in Iraq becomes increasingly desperate, Tina Gerhardt reports, 'the number of young girls forced into the ugly world of prostitution continues to grow.' -- Anna Cynar
http://www.wiretapmag.org/warandpeace/43230

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Long relegated to the children's nooks at the public library, puppetry is ready to grow up. The Atlanta-based Center for Puppetry Arts puts on productions of works by Edgar Allen Poe, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying that are as ambitious as they are licentious. But adult puppetry's not for the faint of heart. By the end of one show an artist's puppets 'are usually so sopping with blood that they can't be used again.' -- Brendan Mackie
http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A303752

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