Havocscope is fascinating in it’s breadth of subjects covered and it’s reasoning and purpose. I have no proof that it is accurate, I’m sharing it with you annectdotally, as I’ve found it. If it is accurate, it’s another information window. Either way it’s rather chilling. The price of victims sold to human traffickers is…
DetailsThis reporter displays genuine empathy and concern over the plight of these workers. She takes her report right up to the edge of adressing the actual existence of true slavery in Oman. She draws the picture clearly. Undoubtedly she would have been censured, if not much worse for being any more direct. We have complete…
DetailsReporter Russell Leadbetter brings up the dilemna we all face: Do we want to know where the money we spend for items purchased or services provided is going? At the end of the day is saving money on a good deal more important than the blood that could be behind it? The bigger question might…
DetailsAfghanistan is certainly not alone in perpetuating this horrible form of child abuse. the complicity of the families, culture and governments makes this a particularly hard form to fight. How do we fight something so atrocious to us, yet seen as a normal act and right in the host country? In some cases…
DetailsIt’s a mistake to think of human trafficking as only a dirty-knuckled-dragging thug type of business. The machine is very large, with different levels in sophistication of operations where warranted. The market in false visas and passports for this use alone is huge internationally. Sometimes they’re counterfeited, sometimes bribery for the genuine article. I believe…
DetailsOne man’s slave is another man’s economical source of labor. The definition is being debated on Justice Minister Alan Shatter’s watch. History is in the definitions, as are the ability to prosecute. Where’s Bono when we need him? Sometimes a floodlight of media attention is exactly what’s needed. Hopefully Ire will be thinking of those…
DetailsFinally, the extreme conditions faced by many thousands of child brides is exposed in a wider venue. This horrendously abused girl was rescued in time. Please God, not to be returned to either the family that sold or bought her. Many are killed by the family outright, for any form of ‘disobedience’, real (a whim)…
DetailsSri Lanka Police media spokesman SSP, Ajith Rohana releases figures for 2011. They’re shocking, but they’re put out there for the world to see. We seem to have invisible lobbyists for the express purpose of not tying crimes that could be related to human trafficking to any anchor definition that might allow even ballpark public estimates…
DetailsJustin Dillon is one of the rare ones. Not only did he listen to information on human trafficking, but he recognized it and responded to warn those he saw to be in danger. He also stayed involved, becoming a driving force in creating a truly workable and successful media campaign. This is a hard thing…
DetailsPutting the cliche’s aside about this being everyone’s problem, it is. There are traffickers with customers out there looking to buy slaves in every race, color, creed, sexual orientation that populate the earth.We need to realize who the enemy is. You know how people pull together in a disaster and we all become just …..people…
DetailsWant to get involved? New list of job, internship and volunteer positions for anti-human trafficking orgs around the world, collated and provided by End Slavery Now.. Pass them along to those you know are interested. Abolition Opportunities
DetailsKnowledge is power, protection, prevention and in this case, permission to seek help. As in rape and incest, we have victims among us who don’t realize they are not at fault or alone, that their experience was perpetrated by criminals running an ongoing business. A business that needs a continuous supply of young, vulnerable, accessible…
DetailsThe organized crime arm of human trafficking feeds off of any opportunity: political chaos, economic collapse, natural disaster. All of these and more make it easy for traffickers to loot a population of those most vulnerable. If you follow the chain of these factors around the world you’ll see where an abundance of slaves are…
DetailsPeople who are convinced that human trafficking per se, does not exist, or if it does it is isolated and in small number, display a dangerous naiveté. Where there is smoke there is fire. If there were a flaming wastebasket in an office building would it be ignored? Why then is this encroaching conflagration ignored so…
DetailsGreat start. Let’s get all 50 states and anyone else who’s interested started on this as a bare minimum model. Add another zero onto that first offence fine and tack on mandatory addition to the National Sex Offender Registry. I should think that will drastically cut demand by the something-like 65% average white male between…
DetailsThe Author’s summing up of the necessity to contain this crime in a timely fashion is an urgency I identify with personally. Many of the voices raised in the US belong to NGO’s and those affiliated with them in fighting the problem, or politicians for or against legislation affecting it. There is a growing…
DetailsSchool. One of the last places you might think to encounter human trafficking except in a lesson. “U.S. District Judge John A. Kronstadt’s ruling is the first time the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) would be applied to a class of people, instead of individuals.” Judge Kronstadt’s ruling is going to open the door…
DetailsNo matter how you observe this time of year, here is a celebration meaningful to all peoples. The celebration of slaves set free. Some of these slavery survivors must be struggling with bewilderment, fear of the unfamiliar and of the past returning. Most of victims are Asian or Latin Americans, some Eastern European, African or…
DetailsMurder in the heartland: Trafficking is coming out of the shadows. These displays are meant to terrify other girls in the ring into unquestionable alliance and obedience. Is it any wonder the true numbers stay hidden? What minor or young girl could overcome that kind of horror? Who could? We must find and break the…
DetailsWhat is an appropriate punishment for a crime such as this? It’s hard to imagine worse forms of torture applied to a human. For it to happen in the manner described in this FBI report, to a mentally impared minor is unbearable to contemplate. What penalty can our justice system assign to all of these…
DetailsCan Justice exist that is not applied equally to all? Why hasn’t there been coverage of this in mainstream media? Surely this is not the first instance to be discovered? To be sold into Slavery is abhorent. To be blind to it is even more so. Report: Gay and bisexual Kenyan men trafficked as sex…
DetailsThe Hague’s International Court of Justice should have their flag at half mast in shame over this ludicrous lack of justice for the most defenseless of victims. Must they actually die to see the perpetrators who take their lives in every way but breath go free in 10 years while they suffer permanently? Take a…
DetailsIf you find that many products that come from a certain country contain poisonous or dangerous chemicals will you purchous them and give them to your family anyway? If your food is contaminated by E Coli will you eat it? You don’t do these things because to knowlingly take these bad things in or…
DetailsMTV Exit aims to rock Human Rights and Freedom around the world and into the places that need it most, and it’s speaking the language of the youth who’ll carry that message fluently. This humanitarian arm of MTV fights human trafficking and loss of basic human rights. To learn more about the campaign please contact…
DetailsHold on to your lunch, this is unbelievable. Two years in prison and an early out for aiding pimps by money laundering, repairing battered prostitutes teeth, bartering favors and acknowledging that he worked on trafficked, underage girls for a vicious pimp who abused scores of trafficked minors, and he can’t even have his license permanently…
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