Human Goods

Welcome to the human zoo: Kayan refugees reject roles as tourist attractions

christahillstrom — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:20:08 +0000

A Marie Claire story likens the reality of Burmese women living in refugee villages in Thailand to a human zoo tailored to tourists. The Kayan women, famous for the extremely heavy rings they wear...

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Sell yourself

christahillstrom — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:07:11 +0000

Yesterday I wrote about poor Indian migrant workers coerced into selling their kidneys to wealthy Westerners, pointing out that in today’s global economy some of us can afford new body parts...

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Bringing down “Dr. Horror”: Organ trafficking in India

christahillstrom — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:04:06 +0000

(Photo source: Upick Reviews, featuring a list of 8 countries where organ trafficking occurs, including China, Kosovo, Pakistan, and Moldova) The current issue of The Atlantic covers the recent...

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Lens on Child Labor: Dr. David Parker uses photography to humanize public health issues

christahillstrom — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:27:46 +0000

(source: David Parker) NEED: The Humanitarian Magazine published a gallery of photographs by doctor and photographer David Parker, who has spent 16 years raising awareness about health issues...

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Increased fighting in DRC bolsters recruitment of child soldiers

christahillstrom — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:37:49 +0000

(Source: Associated Press) The latest violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is expected to reinvigorate child recruitment efforts, IRIN reported this week. The intensification of fighting...

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Human Right #4: No slavery

christahillstrom — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:58:38 +0000

Produced by Youth for Human Rights International. Watch more videos based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights here.

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All that glitters: Child labor and Pakistani bangle-making

christahillstrom — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:44:36 +0000

IRIN recently reported on the International Labor Organization’s study of child labor in Pakistan’s bangle industry. According to the study, children must hunch over hot stoves for...

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The shadow of globalization: Slavery, smuggling, and sex

christahillstrom — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:05:07 +0000

(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...

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Sexpatriotism: ‘The last place you can be a white man’

christahillstrom — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:12:21 +0000

(photo source: Vitaly Shepelev/flickr) After the Christmas 2004 tsunami, Hannah Lobel, in a 2005 article from the Utne Reader, described “slimy ’sexpatriates’ who’ve set up...

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Calling it slavery: John Miller reflects on Wilberforce

christahillstrom — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:13:24 +0000

“Victims of slavery tend to be isolated, relatively poor, and badly educated,” former U.S. ambassador at large on modern-day slavery John Miller writes in the current Wilson...

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