Modern Day Slavery

Partnerships for Hope -- Rani Hong with UN.GIFT

Rani Hong | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Slavery, Human Trafficking, Modern-Day Slavery, India Slavery, Human Trafficking Slavery, India Child Slavery, Impact News

UN.GIFT sat down with Rani to discuss her own story and her tireless work to ensure that people around the world can live without fear of enslavement.

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American Gulag: A Lot More Than License Plates

Lyric Hughes Hale | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Prisoner, Jail, Civil War, Gulag, Prison Labor, Slavery, Inmate Rights, Prison Workers, Slavery in United States, Slavery in America, Prisoner Rights, Inmates, Modern Day Slavery, Business News

Of the 2.3 million prisoners now being held, more than 100,000 work in federal and state prison industry programs. This doesn't mean the usual cooking and cleaning, but work that produces products for sale -- about $2.4 billion dollars annually.

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Remembering The Victims Of Slavery

Free The Slaves | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Sarah Mendelson, Usaid, Slavery, Free the Slaves, Usaid Policy, Hillary Clinton, Rajiv Shah, Modern Day Slavery, Human Trafficking, Activism, Impact News

USAID has made tremendous progress in the past year on C-TIP and I'm already looking forward to next year's PITF, where we can share how we've turned our policy into action, announce concrete deliverables, and make new commitments to combating this horrific crime. We hope all our partners inside and outside the government will hold us accountable.

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A New Paradigm Of Respect For Women

Zach Hunter | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Christianity, Women's Rights, Social Justice, Human Rights, International Women's Day, Modern Day Slavery, Faith, Human Trafficking, International Women's Day 2012, India, Religion News

Know this, girls and women: you are absolutely beautiful. God doesn't measure you according to the world's standards or compare you with some airbrushed model on a magazine cover.

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Diplomat's Servant Exposes Modern Day Slavery in the U.S.

Erwin de Leon | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Domestic Workers, State Department, Diplomats, Human Trafficking, Trafficking, Slavery, Shanti Gurung, Modern Day Slavery, Crime News

The diplomat brought Shanti Gurung to New York in 2006 with the promise of paying her $100 a month to do light cooking and a few chores. The 17-year-old ended up working 16-hour days, cooking, cleaning, doing the laundry, grocery shopping and giving massages.

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MTV's $10,000 Challenge: Build Technology That Ends Human Slavery

Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Slavery Footprint, Georgia Southern University, Mtv, Activism, Slavery, Mtvu, Stephen Friedman, Modern Day Slavery, Against-Our-Will-Campaign, Technology, Slavery Footprint Campus Challenge, Human Trafficking, Impact News

These days, technology has the capacity to change everything -- and mtvU is hoping the end of human slavery is within that reach. MTV's 24-hour col...

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National Human Trafficking Awareness Day: Which States Are Doing Most To Stem Slavery?

Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Montana, Arkansas, Slavery, South Carolina, West Virginia, Human Trafficking Awareness Day, Sex Trafficking, Modern Day Slavery, Alaska, Wyoming, Massachusetts, South Dakota, Labor Trafficking, Human Trafficking, Colorado, Impact News

National Human Trafficking Awareness Day highlights the fact that it's no longer possible to have a "not in my backyard" attitude about modern-day sla...

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New York City Small Business Owner Helps Combat Modern-Day Slavery

Diana Mao | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Occupy Wall Street Movement, Occupy Wall Street, Modern Day Slavery, New York City Restaurants, #Occupywallstreet, New York City, Human Trafficking, Impact News

New York City is the epicenter of ideas that create wealth and social change. The Wechsler's are hoping to create an environment where this exchange can take place.

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None of Us Are Free

Kristin Lindsey | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Modern Day Slavery, Martin Luther King, Civil Rights, Slavery, Human Trafficking, Impact News

Putting an end to modern day slavery is our civil rights movement. Now it's our time to make a difference, and we must continue to work together to ensure that people everywhere are free.

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A Christian Ethic of Social Justice: Will A Bible Fill An Empty Stomach?

Zach Hunter | Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Christianity, Abolitionists, Abolition, Zach Hunter, Living the Gospel, Social Justice, Anti-Slavery, Theology of Social Justice, Evangelical Social Gospel, Modern Day Slavery, Human Suffering, Christian Social Justice, Religion News

We understand that it is not enough to talk, talk is cheap. We must "Be the change that [we] wish to see in the world." Because of this knowledge, students are shaping solutions to many social ills .

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Free the Slaves

Jennifer Hamady | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Community Service, Kevin Bales, Modern Day Slavery, Volunteering, Making a Difference, Contribution, Slavery, Impact News

"In the US we have trouble understanding because we don't see how vulnerable people are who are poor and without education, without any hopes that their children's lives will be better than theirs have been."

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Today's Tribute to the Struggle Against Slavery

J. L. Morin | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Women, Anti-Slavery, Author, Modern-Day Slavery, Fiction, Slavery, Travelling Light, International, Novel, World News

People around the globe are celebrating today's International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition and the day that slavery became illegal in the Western world.

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Sex Slaves From China Surface in Helsinki Art

J. L. Morin | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Europe, Adventure, Sex Slavery, Travel, China, Travelling Light, Eu, Harvard, Art, Sex, Modern-Day Slavery, Feminist Movement, Slavery, Finland, World News

Finland has a history of exposing traffickers, but only recently has the world woken up to focus on the canker of sex slavery. An art installation in Helsinki points out the reality of prostitution for export by China.

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The See-No-Evil Issue of Human Trafficking

Susan L. Travis | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Human Rights, Modern Day Slavery, Slavery, Human Trafficking, Drug War, Organized Crime, Impact News

After drug trafficking, the trafficking of humans ties with arms sales as the most lucrative business for the organized crime industry.

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A Decade of Anti-Trafficking Legislation: Looking Back and Moving Forward

Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism | Posted 08.26.2011

Read More: u.s. Department of State, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, Modern Slavery, Sex Trafficking, Hillary Clinton, Modern Day Slavery, Forced Labor, Human Trafficking, World News

On Monday, government officials, law enforcement agents, advocates, and journalists head to the Department of State to discuss slavery. They will not receive a history lesson. They will discuss a problem that still affects at least 12.3 million people worldwide.

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Bethany and the Guitar - Making Music and Creating Change

Diana Mao | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Social Justice, Concerts, Social Change, Bands, Washington DC, Sex Trafficking, Musicians, Music, Human Trafficking, Singer-Songwriter, Modern Day Slavery, Child Slavery, Abolitionists, Impact, Performance, Emerging Artists, Impact News

Bethany has always had love for children and sensitivity towards their suffering. She started working with children at a young age. She now has a desire to continue raising awareness about child abuse and human trafficking while making music.

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Modern-Day Slavery 101: Losing Control All over the World

J. L. Morin | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Trafficking in Persons Report 2011, Slavery, Modern Day Slavery, Forced Labor, World, World News

What most people don't know is that there are about 27 million slaves -- real slaves -- in the world today. That's more than at the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the late 1700's.

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Adrian Peterson: NFL Players Stuck In 'Modern-Day Slavery'

Posted 05.25.2011

Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson made some controversial comments about the NFL labor situation in an interview with Doug Farrar of Yaho...

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Who Picks Your Tomatoes?

Lael Hazan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Modern Day Slavery, Tomato Sauce, Teaching Children, Tomatoes, Marcella Hazan, Illegal Immigrants, Slidepollajax, Food News

How do I teach my children not to take a tomato for granted? How do I teach them that they can have an impact without scaring them so much that they feel impotent?

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Modern-Day Slavery: A Necessary Beat With Different Challenges

Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nonprofit Journalism, E. Benjamin Skinner, Melanie Hamman, Modern Day Slavery, Human Trafficking, Nieman Reports, World News

Too often, the 24-hour TV news cycle leaves viewers with the impression that journalists' professional detachment in covering global crises borders on misery tourism. I have rarely encountered journalists thus inclined.

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An American Survivor of Sex Trafficking Helps Others to Freedom

Free The Slaves | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Trafficking, Washington DC, Sex Slavery, Human Rights, Slavery, Modern Day Slavery, Activism, Impact News

Trafficked into sexual slavery at 14, Tina Frundt now heads her own anti-slavery organization. Based in Washington, D.C., Courtney's House is scheduled to open a shelter dedicated to rehabilitating survivors of sex trafficking.

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Several Types of Slavery Linked to Congo's Mining Industry

Free The Slaves | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Conflict Minerals, Drc, Forced Marriage, Child Soldiers, Slavery, Congo, Forced Labor, Sexual Slavery, Human Rights, Modern Day Slavery, Human Trafficking, Impact News

It's vital that people in slavery are engaged in developing their own solutions. They tell us that boycotting slave-tainted and conflict-tainted products will only make their lives worse.

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Hidden in Plain Sight: The News Media's Role in Exposing Human Trafficking (VIDEO)

Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lynn Sherr, Elaine Schuster, Schuster Institute, E. Benjamin Skinner, News Media, Florence Graves, Mike McGraw, Guy Jacobson, State Department, Human Trafficking, Ambassador Rick Barton, Luis CdeBaca, Prostitution, Antonio Maria Costa, Modern-Day Slavery, Noy Thrupkaew, Brandeis University, Sex Trafficking, Media News

Take a look as some leading media-makers debate coverage of human trafficking. What hinders good reporting on human trafficking? What do journalists fear when they report on slaves and slavery?

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Find Your Voice: Break the Chain Conference on Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery

Rani Hong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Modern Day Slavery, Modern Day Slavery Conference, Find Your Voice Break the Chain, Activism, Find Your Voice Break the Chain Conference, Human Trafficking Modern Day Slavery Conference, Human Trafficking Conference, Human Trafficking, Impact News

Women of Vision announces registration is now open for a conference on human trafficking and modern day slavery. The conference includes keynote presentations, breakout sessions, and information booths.

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Of Human Bondage: Slavery Bigger Than Ever in America

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slave Labor, Free the Slaves, Modern Day Slavery, United Nations, Human Rights Center, Slavery, Politics News

The modern day slave trade nearly equals the illicit drug and arms sale trade. Captives work in plants, factories, farms, hotels and restaurants and in prostitution and sex rings.

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