107 slave laborers freed in Mexico City

"Mexican authorities have freed 107 indigenous people who officials say were being held as slave laborers in a Mexico City factory disguised as a drug rehabilitation center." This piece comes with a trigger warning - the details contained within are sickening and harrowing. ...

Fifth of Britons unknowingly aid child trafficking

"More than a fifth of Britons may be unknowingly contributing to child trafficking, a survey published today reveals. People who buy pirate DVDs and roses from street vendors, smoke home-grown cannabis, give money to child beggars and use prostitutes may be supporting what...

Compassion: for all who suffer because they are poor

Daily it seems, we in the western hemisphere are bombarded with stories involving corporate corruption, and of political power being abused where governments treat the electorate, or its subjects, like condemned animals in a science laboratory. Although, not quite all of...