human trafficking
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(También en Español) [pexyoutube pex_attr_src=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH4L_z7Gefo” pex_attr_width=”500″][/pexyoutube] How do you think prostitution can be legalized, protecting the right of individual choice, while at the same eradicating unethical sex slavery and human trafficking? Make a video, write a poem, song, or an essay — or even create an original work of art — and express your thoughts.…
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Chocolate’s Child Slaves
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News of Note: Chocolate’s Child Slaves Everyone loves chocolate. But for thousands of people, chocolate is the reason for their enslavement. The chocolate bar you snack on likely starts at a plant in a West African cocoa plantation, and often the people who harvest it are children. Many are slaves to a system that produces…
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Human Rights Day 2011 – Part I
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[pexyoutube pex_attr_src=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SgrdYPGaOE” pex_attr_width=”500″][/pexyoutube] Today is Human Rights Day 2011. To mark the occasion, this video is from Navanethem Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was drafted by a committee chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, and was adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 10, 1948. This Declaration…
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The Sexual Freedom Project: Human Trafficking
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[pexyoutube pex_attr_src=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAffHoO51Ww” pex_attr_width=”500″][/pexyoutube] Today’s video comes to us from the Demi & Ashton Foundation (DNA Foundation) and is about human trafficking: the illegal trade of human beings for the purposes of reproductive slavery, commercial sexual exploitation, forced labor, or a modern-day form of slavery. Some important facts from their website: Today, more than twelve million people worldwide…
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Human trafficking
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A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together. — Margaret Atwood Back in 2009 while in Uganda, I found myself involved in a scam that fell neatly in the stereotype that Nigeria is the NO.1 source of scammers. I am not…