From the U.N. Study: "When prostitution is justified by religion or culture it is all the more damaging to women. Deuki, sacred prostitution, still found in Nepal, Devadasi, a variant started 1,500 years ago in South India and ritual slavery in Ghana, where trokosi (slaves of God) girls are offered as appeasement to deities, and to sorcerers who use them as sex slaves."

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Women's NGO'S
Equality Now
European Women’s Lobby (EWL)
UN NGO Committee on the Status of Women, Geneva
UN NGO Committee on the Status of Women, New York
Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
WOMANKIND Worldwide

Human Rights NGO'S
Rights and Democracy–Droits et Democratie
Human Strategies for Human Rights (HSHR)
MiraMed Institute
UN NGO Committee on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Geneva
UN NGO Committee on Freedom of Religion or Belief, New York

Religions & Associations
International Justice Mission (IJM)

Academic Institutions

Civil Society

Governments
Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW)
The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)

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