Eliza gray was well into report - ing our cover package about the problem of sexual assaults on U.S. campuses when another story of sexual violence began to spread, first in the form of local alarms but eventually as a global siren of horror and outrage. The kidnapping of 276 Nigerian schoolgirls by Islamic terrorists, who threatened to sell them as sex slaves, was the most theatrical commission of a crime that occurs every day. Belinda Luscombe's story explores the roots and growth of sex trafficking and modern slavery, which by some estimates now affects 21 million people worldwide. The attack in Nigeria by Boko Haram (whose name roughly means "Western education is forbidden") was one more reminder of the mortal risks that girls in some countries can face when they set off on the road to freedom that an education represents.
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