An excellent (but depressing) AP article brings to light the horrendous abuses in the global trafficking of women [Salon.com], which has been brutally targeting Russian women over the past decade. Pimps prey on women in underdeveloped countries, who are often desperately poor, offering good jobs in the industrialized countries. They steal women’s passports and other documents, beat and rape and intimidate them, use drugs, and use every other form of economic and physical coercion that they can devise to keep the women in the most abysmal conditions. This is the world’s major remaining global slave trade. For a powerful force fighting against the brutality of worldwide sexual slavery, check out the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women.