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Make the connections: Debt, action, and the “free” market

Posted in activism, debt, global, global economics, haiti, make the connections, natural disasters, policy on February 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

(image by Chris Coady)
There’s real hope for Haiti, and it’s not what you’d expect
From Johann Hari and The Independent/UK:
When people live so close to the edge, even small price increases can break them.
In the weeks after a disaster like the Haiti earthquake, journalists always search for an upbeat twist to the tale. You know it [...]

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Make the connections: Exploitation, consumption, and change

Posted in activism, awareness, consumption, global, make the connections, policy, production chains, video on February 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

From Annie Leonard and Yes Magazine:
I’ve spent much of the past two decades visiting factories where our stuff is made and dumps where it is disposed of around the world. After years of seeing firsthand the often hidden environmental, social, and health impacts of all the stuff we consume, I’ve developed a sort of neurosis: [...]

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A Day for Awareness, and Agitation: A message from E. Benjamin Skinner

Posted in activism, awareness, global on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Friends:
In 2007, our national lawmakers, bless their hearts, made today National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Last week, our president, to his undying credit, proclaimed this month National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month.
Big deal.
America spends more money in a single day to fight the trade in illegal drugs than we do in an entire year [...]

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Going Native: Modern sex tourism and the post-colonial gaze

Posted in global, global economics, sex, sex tourism on November 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Deep in our psyches, men harbor a vision of beautiful, tropical island women, adoring and submissive.  Could this paradise still exist?
-Henry Makow, A Long Way to Go for a Date
(This is the first post in a series on international sex tourism)
In recent years, there has been increased visibility of Western tourists embarking on sex tours [...]

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Dayton Literary Peace Prize awarded to E. Benjamin Skinner

Posted in awareness, global on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face With Modern-Day Slavery by E. Benjamin Skinner was awarded the 2009 Dayton Literary Peace Prize.  The award honors “the power of the written word to promote peace,” and Skinner’s poignant account of the individual anguish of men, women, and children enslaved in Haiti, the Sudan, Eastern Europe, India, and the [...]

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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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The shadow of globalization: Slavery, smuggling, and sex

Posted in global, global economics, labor, refugees, sex, video on October 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »

(Photo source:  Wide Angle)
For anyone wanting to understand how globalization and new migration trends are affecting the illegal trafficking and smuggling of humans, it’s worth watching PBS’s Wide Angle episode, “Dying to Leave.”
Although produced in 2003, the short but excellent documentary, which can be viewed on their website, provides a wide angle indeed on how [...]

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Dr. Mark Rodgers on sex trafficking

Posted in americas, awareness, global, human goods original reporting, policy, prevention, prosecution, sex, united states on July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Dr. Mark Rodgers is Dean of Dominican University’s Graduate School of Social Work in Illinois.  He has worked to combat sex trafficking in Europe, South America, and at home.  Dr. Rodgers talked to Human Goods about policy, prevention, and what works (and doesn’t) in the fight against global slavery.
Human Goods: Maybe to start, can [...]

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2008 Trafficking in Persons report released

Posted in global, labor, policy, sex, united states on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons released its 8th annual Trafficking in Persons Report last week.
Since the 2000 Trafficking Victims Protection Act was passed and the TIP office was created, it has annually ranked all the countries in the world (besides the U.S., quite conspicuously) on a four-tier system that [...]

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A conversation with E. Benjamin Skinner

Posted in children, global, global economics, human goods original reporting, labor, policy, prevention, prosecution, sex on May 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Recently I had coffee with Ben Skinner, author of the new book “A Crime So Monstrous: Face to Face With Modern-Day Slavery.” We talked about his experience as a writer communicating the grief of others, about why the anti-slavery movement does make economic sense, and what’s being done to fight it. The conversation is broken [...]

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