Word: helsinki
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...brothels and nightclubs against their will, according to the International Organization for Migration (iom). The region is the fastest-growing point of origin for the trafficking in women for sexual purposes, a modern form of slavery dubbed "one of the most disgraceful faces" of contemporary society by the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, an organization that has seen its share of disgraceful practices...
...lack of interest in a crime that ultimately victimizes foreigners has led to some surprisingly callous responses. Authorities in the Czech Republic, for example, have stamped foreign victims' passports with an "undesirable" mark and dumped the women at the border, according to a recent report from the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights. In Moldova, even a doctor in the venereal disease clinic treating women who have returned to the country believes their troubles are in most cases self-inflicted. "A woman's sexual behavior is entirely her responsibility," declared Viorel Kalistru...
DIED. EMIL ZATOPEK, 78, four-time Olympic gold medalist and political dissident; after a stroke; in Prague. Zatopek won three of his golds at the Helsinki Games in 1952, in the 5,000 m, the 10,000 m and--having never run one before--the marathon. Nicknamed "the Engine," Zatopek ran up to 100 miles a week, sometimes in place in the bathtub, or with his wife on his shoulders. He was dismissed from the military and reduced to manual labor after standing on anticommunist front lines during the 1968 Prague Spring. He broke 18 world records but once said...
...billion global telecom powerhouse, what sticks with you is his charming knack for understatement. "We've done pretty well," Ollila says, kicking back in his chair inside Nokia's Espoo headquarters, a modern construct of glass and steel towering over the Gulf of Finland six miles west of Helsinki. You'd think he was talking about his tennis game...