Profile of a Trafficker

What is known about Traffickers? “Traffickers include those who recruit, transport, harbor, obtain and exploit victims, often using force, threats, lies, or other physical and psychological methods of control.” 1 I was interested in what information is known about ...

US Failure: Thousands remain virtual slaves in America

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude…shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." — 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified Dec. 6, 1865. According to an...

ILAB Report gives consumers reason to shop responsibly

A United States Department of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) report gives consumers reason to shop responsibly. Released in September 2009, the report shows 122 goods in 58 countries that are...

Child Slave Labor in China

   Just when we think we've heard the worst out of China, another atrocity rears its ugly head.  This time it's the push for more child labor. I know that some of you have read my articles on China...

The State of South Africa's Apartheid, the Mother Root of All Evil

What is actually like to live your life according to how someone else dictates for you? You go to bed and wake up at the time given to you. You cannot leave your house at anytime before 7:00 in the morning or only when the sun has risen. And if you are somewhere, no matter...

Modern Day Slavery the Mother Root of All Socioeconomic Oppression

In today's mainstream pop culture, the word "slavery" is mostly synonymous with America, not because it has a better connotation or that it was invented in America, but simply because it is the country which has...

AFRICA: Too small to be fighting in anyone's war

(December 2003) - His comrades in the transit camp run by Save the Children-UK in Bunia, a town in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), called him 'Kadogo', which means "small" in Kiswahili. The name suited him for he was tiny, much too tiny, in fact, to be involved in...

Heroism of Conflict Survivors Inspires New Program in Central Africa

June 30 2008, Washington, DC: Ricky Richard was fourteen when he was abducted from his home in Uganda and drafted into the Lord's Resistance Army, a violent rebel militia that has forced almost two million Ugandans from their homes.   Mr Richard escaped after two years....

reporting illegal immigrants in a nation of laws

Some Americans believe the U.S. is a Nation of Laws. Some of the immigrants in the Nation of Laws are illegal. This website provides a simple, fast, and anonymous way for the citizens of the Nation of Laws to report illegal immigrants, and also their illegal employers, to the...

U.N.: Myanmar Must Stop Forced Labor (AP)

AP - Myanmar's military government must stop backsliding on its promise to wipe out forced labor, a United Nations monitor said Thursday.

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