UK charity campaigns over Asian sex slave trade LONDON (Reuters) - The British overseas development charity ActionAid launched a campaign Wednesday to stamp out the trafficking of women and children in Asia. ActionAid said organized crime rings were targeting poverty-stricken women and children in parts of Asia in what amounted to a contemporary form of the slave trade. It said in Asia a million women were sold into prostitution each year, more than 650,000 children worked as prostitutes and some victims of sex trafficking were as young as 10-years-old. ActionAid expressed particular concern over Nepal, where it said that thousands of women and children living in desperate poverty were being taken to brothels in India. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2557271819-474>
