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150 Years Later: Now’s Our Chance to Free the Slaves Again

February 21, 2013 5:29 pm
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For those who insist they would have been abolitionists during the Civil War, there’s still time to become one.

One Billion Rise

February 14, 2013 7:14 pm
Featured, Global
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This Valentine’s Day, join the worldwide walkout to end violence against women.

Could Bringing Manufacturing Back to the U.S. Help Curb Forced Labor?

January 28, 2013 5:51 pm
Featured, Global
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What one writer discovered when she traced a Christmas gift’s roots.

It’s Time to Take a Stand for Domestic Workers

January 11, 2013 6:17 pm
Americas, Featured
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150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, it’s time to recognize domestic labor as real work that should be protected.

India has been reeling in the wake of a brutal gang rape and murder. While some are pushing legalization of prostitution in the wake of the horrific crime, Ruchira Gupta believes legitimizing it will only support the myth of male supremacy.

Labor Trafficking

This African-American family was photographed in 1862 after Union forces captured the Sea Island coastal area of South Carolina. One of four photographs taken by Timothy O’Sullivan of the J. J. Smith plantation, this picture was subsequently exhibited at Alexander Gardner’s Washington, D.C., photography gallery in September 1863.

Southern Slavery, the Extended Version

In the 147 years since the Emancipation Proclamation was introduced, African Americans have continued to fight for abolition of forced labor abroad and at home—from the turpentine camps of Florida to its tomato fields today.

Sex Trafficking

In Nepal, Comics Hit Sex Trafficking at the Source

Can comics fight sex trafficking? Graphic journalist Dan Archer thinks so.

Global Economics

A Mothers’ Search for Disappeared Migrants

More than 70,000 Central American migrants have disappeared on the road North since 2006. Now their mothers are searching for them.

Policy

We Still Don’t Punish Contractors for Slavery on U.S. Bases

With all the laws on the books, why are migrants still exploited in the places that claim to bring “freedom” to the world?

We Still Don’t Punish Contractors for Slavery on U.S. Bases

With all the laws on the books, why are migrants still exploited in the places that claim to bring “freedom” to the world?

Can comics fight sex trafficking? Graphic journalist Dan Archer thinks so.

More than 70,000 Central American migrants have disappeared on the road North since 2006. Now their mothers are searching for them.

The old logic of the slave plantation is still the logic of our industrial food system. There’s a new way of thinking, and it’s taking off.

With more than 100 pimps arrested (and nearly 80 children rescued) in a nationwide sex trafficking sweep last weekend, it’s time we understood pimping—and how mainstream society supports it.

Visionary feminists or lewd exhibitionists? State security threats or “young silly girls”? The confounding, creative, controversial crusade of Ukraine’s new feminist movement.

As controversial talks kick off this week in the Windy City, law enforcement warns—if you purchase sex here, there will be consequences.

62 percent of Native American women who have experienced sexual violence draw a connection between prostitution and colonization. Why continuing to devalue tribes means more tribal women in bondage.