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Good news from Haiti: Journalist Ben Skinner returns a life-saving favor

Posted in activism, americas, haiti, natural disasters, refugees, video on January 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Haitian anti-slavery activist Bill Nathan was taking a break from his work with abandoned and former slave children, when the earthquake hurtled him from the seventh-floor garden of the orphanage.
Ben Skinner, an anti-slavery activist and journalist, writes in Time:
Two minutes later, the quake smashed open the building, and the top three floors pitched northward, hurling [...]

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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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Before the quake: The roots of Haiti’s destruction

Posted in americas, global economics, haiti, natural disasters, policy, refugees, video on January 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

While earthquakes are acts of nature, extreme vulnerability to earthquakes is manmade,
Tracy Kidder wrote in The New York Times, referring to last week’s cataclysmic quake in Haiti.  Kidder, who has written about the work of the legendary Dr. Paul Farmer in rural Haiti, explains in his article what many others have also voiced about the [...]

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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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Through the looking glass: Dubai

Posted in dubai, global economics, labor, middle east, refugees, sex, sex tourism on August 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Dubai, by most accounts, is something of a fantasyland. Exploding with new money that begets uninhibited , almost Dr. Seussian, architecture and draws affluent business and pleasure-seekers from around the world, it has also, much like Las Vegas or Amsterdam, become what I like to call an exception zone. A playground of privilege, if you [...]

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Marie Claire on Iraqi refugee survival sex

Posted in iraq, middle east, refugees, sex, war on July 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

(photo: Jason Florio)
Marie Claire published a piece by Danielle Pergament on the trend of Iraqi refugees engaging in survival sex (you can also see a video under an April entry on Human Goods called “Survival Sex: The Untalked-about Consequence of War”).
Pergament details the lives of a few women who formerly led middle class lives in [...]

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Myanmar cyclone hits the most vulnerable hardest

Posted in asia, child soldiers, children, myanmar, natural disasters, refugees, sex on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Myanmar, Seth Mydans wrote in The New York Times this week, has one of the world’s highest recruitments of child soldiers, with many of them coerced through violence, kidnapping, and terror to join the army.
Mydans draws his information from a report recently released by Human Rights Watch on the use of child soldiers worldwide. According [...]

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Survival sex: the un-talked about consequence of war

Posted in middle east, refugees, sex on April 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Wars, without fail, create refugees.
But despite frantic international conversation about weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and democracy, the welfare of those refugees falls a little by the wayside.
What happens to Iraqi refugees once they’re removed from the war zone?
Last year, Nihal Hissan reported in The Independent on the plentiful nightclubs outside of Damascus, overflowing with [...]

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