EXPERT, CRUSADER AGAINST INTERNATIONAL SEX SLAVERY

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One of the world’s experts on sexual slavery and human trafficking, who has traveled the world to fight these abuses against millions of women and children, Salvation Army firebrand Lisa Thompson, head of the multi-faith Initiative Against Sexual Trafficking, received the Freedom Magazine Human Rights Leadership Award on Capitol Hill, Monday, September 18th.
Freedom Magazine is the international journal of the Church of Scientology, known for its exposes of a wide range of human rights abuses, and its advocacy of remedies for those abuses.
Last year Ms. Thompson testified before the US Congress that estimates of the international sex trade bringing in 12 billion dollars annually are “astonishing low,” and that more than 1 million children are brought into the sex trade every year. Thompson compares the international sexual trafficking network to the gulags of the former Soviet Union, which enslaved and worked to death millions of prisoners to produce wealth for a totalitarian regime.
Ms. Thompson has worked with human rights, religious, and government groups
throughout the world, including the US, Netherlands, Mexico, Bangladesh, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Sudan and Ecuador, to prevent the enslavement of more women and children, and to bring the perpetrators of modern day slavery to justice.
Thompson is one of three distinguished Americans honored by Freedom Magazine this year for their work to promote and protect the rights of others.
Veteran actress and activist Anne Archer presented the awards at the dinner
ceremony at the Cannon House Office Building. Ms. Archer recently founded Artists for
Human Rights to use the arts to promote human rights.
Also receiving an award from Freedom Magazine were Robert Goodwin, CEO of the Points of Light Foundation, and Congressman Dan Burton (R-IN), a member of the
Congressional Human Rights Caucus, for his work on behalf of families’ rights in medical issues.
Freedom Magazine, an international publication of the Church of Scientology, has
focused on hard-hitting investigative journalism in the public interest since 1968. Articles in the magazine focus on human rights issues and areas in need of social reform. The Human Rights Leadership awards are given to individuals who exemplify the positive actions being taken by dedicated people who are taking a stand and are improving society.
Tom Whittle, Senior Editor of Freedom Magazine commented, “Repressive governments only come to power when the population is kept ignorant and uninformed. through our publication, and through the annual Human Rights Leadership Awards, Freedom Magazine is doing everything possible internationally to expose abuses of human rights and to support the teaching of those same rights. “