User:Courtwang

About me
I am a sophomore at Rice University majoring in Psychology and Sociology, with a minor in Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities. This semester, I will be using Wikipedia for one of my sociology classes called Human Development in Global and Local Communities. I'm looking forward to getting started!

Proposed Topic
Sex Trafficking in Nepal

Sex trafficking in Nepal is a big concern and I found a lot of information about it, but it is not thoroughly covered on Wikipedia. There is currently already a page on "Human Trafficking in Nepal," and sex trafficking is lightly mentioned throughout, but it is not specifically talked about in detail. I would propose to add a section to "Human Trafficking in Nepal" specifically discussing sex trafficking.

1. Asman, Susanne. "The Moral Order and Worries About Trafficking in Nepal." Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies: Alam-e-Niswan 16:1-2 (2009): 207-211.

2. Hausner, Sondra L. The movement of women: Migration, trafficking, and prostitution in the context of Nepal's armed conflict. Save the Children, 2005.

3. Kaufman, Michelle R., and Mary Crawford. "Research and activism review: Sex trafficking in Nepal: A review of intervention and prevention programs." Violence against women 17.5 (2011): 651-      665.

4. Mcarthur, Lisa. "Nepal Women Caught in Trafficking Rings." Off Our Backs 26.4    (1996): 7.

5. O'Neill, Tom. "'Selling Girls in Kuwait': Domestic Labor Migration and Trafficking Discourse in Nepal." Anthropologica 43.2 (2001): 153-164.

6. Poudel, P, Carryer, J. "Girl Trafficking, HIV/AIDS, and the Position of Women in Nepal." Gender and Deveolpment 8.2 (2000): 74-79.

Previous topic
Food Security in Burkina Faso

Due to some of the highest levels of poverty in Africa, rapidly-growing population, recurrent natural disasters, and the fact that it is landlocked, food insecurity rates in Burkina Faso remain consistently high. I would add a new section to the Burkina Faso page that already exists because this issue has not been discussed.

References

1. Frongillo, Edward A., and Siméon Nanama. "Development and validation of an experience-based measure of household food insecurity within and across seasons in northern Burkina Faso." The Journal of nutrition 136.5 (2006): 1409S-1419S.

2. Melgar-Quinonez, Hugo R., et al. "Household food insecurity and food expenditure in Bolivia, Burkina Faso, and the Philippines." The Journal of nutrition 136.5   (2006): 1431S-1437S.

3. Reardon, Thomas, and J. Edward Taylor. "Agroclimatic shock, income inequality, and poverty: Evidence from Burkina Faso." ''World Development'' 24.5 (1996): 901-914.

4. Reardon, Thomas, Peter Matlon, and Christopher Delgado. "Coping with household-level food insecurity in drought-affected areas of Burkina Faso."World Development 16.9 (1988): 1065-1074.

5. Savadogo, Kimseyinga, Thomas Reardon, and Kyosti Pietola. "Adoption of improved land use technologies to increase food security in Burkina Faso: relating animal traction, productivity, and non-farm income." Agricultural systems 58.3 (1998): 441-464.