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Genesis: Overcoming the nightmare of American sex trafficking

Posted in activism, americas, awareness, children, families, human goods original reporting, prevention, sex, united states, video on March 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Genesis Ramirez was 15 years old when she turned her first trick.  The following years blended together in a traumatizing series of rapes, beatings, stabbings, miscarriages, and addictions.  Now, at 18, Genesis has pulled herself out of the abyss of Chicago’s sex trade and is trying to forge a life with integrity for the sake [...]

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Cuckoo for cocoa: Valentine’s chocolate in the age of unfair trade

Posted in activism, africa, americas, awareness, children, consumption, corporate responsibility, fair trade, food, labor, production chains, united states on February 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

(image by the International Labor Rights Forum)
The absurdity of the fact that many of us in the first world show our love for one another with products produced by the blood, sweat, and tears of others ought to give all of us pause.  Valentine’s Day offers a unique opportunity to probe into the reality of [...]

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Party time: Searching for prostituted children in Miami’s jubilation

Posted in activism, children, prevention, sex, sporting events, united states on February 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

(t-shirt worn by anti-trafficking volunteers in Miami)
Millions of football fans are celebrating the biggest American sporting victory of the year tonight.  But in the alleys of Miami, host of this year’s Super Bowl, just a handful of social workers, police, and volunteers are roaming around in the shadows, looking for underage girls who might have [...]

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Witch Hunt: New surge in human sacrifice, or another case of hysteria?

Posted in africa, children, families, organ trafficking, tanzania, uganda, video on February 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

They go and capture other people’s children. They bring the heart and the blood directly here to take to the spirits.
In January the BBC aired an episode of Newsnight on what it claims is a rise in human sacrifices and ritual child killings in Uganda:
One man said he had clients who had captured children and [...]

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The place to be: For child traffickers, Haiti’s chaos is ripe with opportunity

Posted in americas, children, labor, natural disasters, refugees, sex on January 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

In Haiti’s unstable post-quake atmosphere, at least one industry is poised to flourish. For those who buy and sell children for sex and cheap labor, Haiti is ripe with opportunity,
Nicolette Grams, staff member of the International Justice Mission, writes in the Atlantic.  Grams uses her article to illuminate the escalating threat of child trafficking through [...]

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Circus Slaves

Posted in asia, awareness, children, families, human goods original reporting, india, labor, nepal, policy, sex on November 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Dutch filmmakers Chris Relleke and Jascha de Wilde’s 2002 film, Starkiss, depicts a young girl gripping a rope with her teeth as she is spun several meters in the air in front of a mesmerized audience. The film explores the enslavement of children in Indian circuses, what the filmmakers describe as “a world hidden [...]

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Children of Industry: South Asia’s child labor dilemma

Posted in asia, bangladesh, children, consumption, india, labor, policy, prevention, production chains, prosecution on November 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »

These are the hands of an 8-year-old …

Child laborer in a Dhaka garment factory (photo: G.M.B. Akash – click for more)
The ubiquitous smile of the poor should not be taken at face value; it conceals inexhaustible grief,
Jeremy Seabrook cautions in his September piece in the New Internationalist. The longtime reporter on poverty in South Asia [...]

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Promising heaven, giving them hell: On pimps and runaways in America

Posted in americas, awareness, children, families, policy, prevention, prosecution, sex, united states, video on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

(photo: Monica Almeida/The New York Times)
On Halloween this year, the little mountain town of Ashland, Oregon reverberated with the rhythms of drum circles and laughter.  Following the annual Halloween parade, the streets were throbbing with Little Bo Peeps and Buzz Lightyears, offbeat zombies and chuckling middle-aged women in street clothes.
I sat in a small cafe [...]

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Sweet Dreams: The battle for the chocolate trade

Posted in africa, awareness, children, corporate responsibility, cote d'ivoire, families, food, global economics, labor, policy, prevention, production chains, video on October 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Democracy Now! interviewed Free the Slaves founder Kevin Bales, a lifelong abolitionist and author of several pivotal works in the corpus of today’s anti-slavery literature, including Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, and the recent The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America. He defined slavery for interviewer Amy Goodman as,
“One [...]

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The system or the girl: IJM and the raiding debate

Posted in activism, asia, cambodia, children, global, india, philippines, policy, prevention, prosecution, sex, video on October 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This month, The Nation publishes the second in a two-part series on attempts to combat sex trafficking in the U.S. and abroad.  The first article, published in September, profiles (oftentimes quite critically) the work of the Christian NGO, International Justice Mission (IJM).
IJM works on a variety of issues, including not only the pursuit of freedom [...]

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