More on the One Girl initiative

" As many as 20,000 Nepalese girls are trafficked to India every year, according to Siddharth Kara’s 2008 book, “Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery.” They’re taken across the border,...

Gratitude Week Volunteers Raise Awareness for Homelessness

On my way to work this week, I noticed several people holding signs with messages like "I have a home", "I feel loved", and "I have hope". They were just standing there all along West Georgia smiling at people and...

What if we are alone?

I was sixteen when I first indulged in what has been described as ‘Earth centered parochialism’. In simple terms, I was arguing for the existence of flying saucers and alien civilizations visiting our planet.  Now some five decades on I find myself more than a little...

Bowie Gets Spider Named After Him

A yellow, hairy spider that lives in the rainforests of Malaysia has been named after singer David Bowie. The spider was discovered by spider specialist Peter Jaeger, who has found over 200 new species of spider in the last ten years - most of them endangered. Jaeger named...

Alice Donovan and Brittanee Drexel Remembered

CUE Center for Missing Persons 2009 Road To Remember Tour will stop in Myrtle Beach, SC to honor the memory of Alice Donovan whose remains were found January, 2009, after being missing for over six years. Hosted by her daughters, Angie Gilchrist and Jennifer Warner. Also at...

Rites of Passage, Time to Pass the Torch On

There are many times that we find ourselves on a whole different path. Our life is never the same ever again. There is no going back. It is important to acknowledge these significant times. As many cultures do...

warning: you may be dangerous to the person sitting next to you

You never considered that, did you? You don't live in your own private world. Your actions affect others. You may think that "being anti-social" means a person is unwilling to socialize... You're wrong, if so. If...

World Environment Day, June 5 2009: Your Planet needs you

World Environment Day is celebrated every year on June 5, and the theme for this year is 'Your Planet Needs You-UNite to Combat Climate Change'. Started in 1972 by the UN General Assembly, it marked the opening of...

3rd Annual Cleveland Walk to Empower to be Held this Mother's Day

More than 1,200 walkers and volunteers will gather at Mall C in downtown Cleveland for the Annual Walk to Empower. This is the third one to be held in Cleveland.The goal of this event is to raise $175,000, as well as breast cancer awareness.This event will be held...

Swine Flu Awareness Widgets From the HHS and CDC

If you have a site or a blog and you really want to help educate your readers about this new strain of the Swine Flu virus, no worries the United States Dept of Health & Human Services and Center for Disease...

Voice of Reason: Sex trafficking in Iraq a tragedy

I've never understood how anyone could sell or give their child away.  How anyone could prostitute their child  or sell a child for the means of prostitution. What I can't understand is when the Iraqi...

The Right Time for Change in the Fight Against Human Trafficking

These two women wrote a story that I've never read before. Stats don't put this out.Melissa Dimore edited the Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work. She is also the inaugural Chair of the Advisory Board of...

Amber Alert Awareness Day

"Amber Alert Awareness Day Tuesday, Jan 13, 2009 It was a story that captured the national spotlight just months ago."Without the amber alert going out i probably would not have made it back," said Paige Alley.For nine days Lathrop teens...

Maloney awarded for efforts to prevent human trafficking

"A state group that raises awareness of human trafficking recently awarded U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D−Astoria) as 2008’s congressional member who has taken the most steps to prevent trafficking through...

Human Trafficking Awareness Day Jan. 11

" Human Trafficking Awareness Day Jan. 11 Each year, an estimated 14,500-17,500 men, women and children are trafficked into the United States, and held as captives in the underground world of sex slavery and...

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