slavery
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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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The Sexual Freedom Project: Human Trafficking
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2 min read
[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…