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ECPAT USA launches its NY State Letter Writing Campaign to the 2013 legislature
If you are a NY State resident, we call you to ask senators and assembly members in Albany to improve protection for children victimized in the human trafficking and sex trade – by passing of a new legislation – the Trafficking Victims Protection and Justice Act.
For more information and to add your voice to the community of anti-trafficking advocates, please click here to sign your name.
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About Little Sisters — Author’s Preface
For more than twenty years I lived, studied and traveled in Nepal and India as an integral part of my learning, ongoing research, and deep interest in the ancient art and religions of South Asia’s respective cultures.
In 1992, my distinguished colleague, Kristina Carlson Jones moved to Kathmandu to open a meditation center. She contacted me in New York and told me about children being abducted and trafficked into sexual slavery. She had met a Nepalese...
We see slavery and trafficking stories throughout the world each week. It’s great news that journalists and bloggers are exposing the problem of slavery, and examining solutions to it. Awareness creates momentum for change. Here are 10 top stories that caught our eye:
1. Yahoo! News. “Apple’s Child-Labor Problem Runs Deep.” http://news.yahoo.com/apples-child-labor-problem-runs-deep-141954177.html
2. Ghana.gov. “Child Labour and Child Trafficking in Ga South and Dangme West—Christian...
On December 16th 2012, the world was shaken by the news of a young woman who died after being raped and beaten on a bus in New Delhi India. Although not uncommon in India’s ‘rape capital’, the incident illuminated the extent and nature of abusive crimes against women and triggered weeks of protests across the nation.
Gender inequality is one of the most significant factors contributing to the prevalence of Human Trafficking in India, where it is estimated that hundreds of thousands of women...
It’s a jumble of memories that encompass my year living in Indonesia: the shock of a sudden, torrential downpour, the flashing colors of a traditional jaipong dancer, the incessant beeping of a thousand motorbikes at rush hour, the lush smells of the dozens of food stalls that dotted my street.
But one image in particular haunts me. An adolescent boy, too young to be called a teenager, crouches on the street across from a cheerfully neon Western-style mall in the dusk of early evening. He...
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Call Now: Foreign Labor Recruiters
May 10 - Please act now. Call members of Senate Judiciary Committee and urge them to support amendments in Immigration Reform bill that will strengthen regulation of foreign labor recruiters.
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