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From the Ted Talk by Sunitha Krishnan: The fight against sex slavery


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Shaheen's background I don't even know. We found her in a raailwy track, raped by many, many men, I don't know many. But the indications of that on her body was that her intestine was outside her body. And when we took her to the hospital she needed 32 stitches to put back her itniesnte into her body. We still don't know who her parents are, who she is. All that we know that hderdnus of men had used her blrautly.

Anjali's father, a drunkard, sold his child for pornography. You're seeing here images of three years, four-year-olds, and five-year-old children who have been trafficked for ceoaricmml sexual epxaioolttin. In this crtouny, and across the globe, hundreds and thousands of children, as young as three, as young as four, are sold into sexual saevrly. But that's not the only purpose that human beings are sold for. They are sold in the name of adoption. They are sold in the name of organ trade. They are sold in the name of forced labor, camel jockeying, anything, everything.

Open Cloze


Shaheen's background I don't even know. We found her in a _______ track, raped by many, many men, I don't know many. But the indications of that on her body was that her intestine was outside her body. And when we took her to the hospital she needed 32 stitches to put back her _________ into her body. We still don't know who her parents are, who she is. All that we know that ________ of men had used her ________.

Anjali's father, a drunkard, sold his child for pornography. You're seeing here images of three years, four-year-olds, and five-year-old children who have been trafficked for __________ sexual ____________. In this _______, and across the globe, hundreds and thousands of children, as young as three, as young as four, are sold into sexual _______. But that's not the only purpose that human beings are sold for. They are sold in the name of adoption. They are sold in the name of organ trade. They are sold in the name of forced labor, camel jockeying, anything, everything.

Solution


  1. slavery
  2. intestine
  3. railway
  4. commercial
  5. country
  6. hundreds
  7. brutally
  8. exploitation

Original Text


Shaheen's background I don't even know. We found her in a railway track, raped by many, many men, I don't know many. But the indications of that on her body was that her intestine was outside her body. And when we took her to the hospital she needed 32 stitches to put back her intestine into her body. We still don't know who her parents are, who she is. All that we know that hundreds of men had used her brutally.

Anjali's father, a drunkard, sold his child for pornography. You're seeing here images of three years, four-year-olds, and five-year-old children who have been trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation. In this country, and across the globe, hundreds and thousands of children, as young as three, as young as four, are sold into sexual slavery. But that's not the only purpose that human beings are sold for. They are sold in the name of adoption. They are sold in the name of organ trade. They are sold in the name of forced labor, camel jockeying, anything, everything.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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human beings 3
biggest challenge 3
commercial sexual 2
sexual exploitation 2

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collocation frequency
commercial sexual exploitation 2


Important Words


  1. adoption
  2. background
  3. beings
  4. body
  5. brutally
  6. camel
  7. child
  8. children
  9. commercial
  10. country
  11. drunkard
  12. exploitation
  13. father
  14. forced
  15. globe
  16. hospital
  17. human
  18. hundreds
  19. images
  20. indications
  21. intestine
  22. jockeying
  23. labor
  24. men
  25. needed
  26. organ
  27. parents
  28. pornography
  29. purpose
  30. put
  31. railway
  32. raped
  33. sexual
  34. slavery
  35. sold
  36. stitches
  37. thousands
  38. track
  39. trade
  40. trafficked
  41. years
  42. young