Emma Thompson spent last week in New York City as the co-creator of a brilliant art exhibition called, "Journey." The exhibition shed light on the darkest corners of human behavior.
Posted 12.05.2009 | Impact
Angelina Jolie has joined Ben Affleck and Demi Moore in an effort to highlight the plight of desperate women in Third World countries by narrating a v...
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 12.03.2009 | New York
As Chris Matthews repeatedly called him "governor," I wondered what the exact protocol was for retaining your title even after you have resigned in disgrace.
Sheryl Sandberg | Posted 11.24.2009 | Impact
How does an individual sitting at a Thanksgiving table in the United States provide any real assistance to a woman who will never have a meal like that in her entire life?
Posted 11.18.2009 | Impact
Have trouble understanding modern art? Impact sought out some special exhibits that seek to make a change in the world, be it through raising awarenes...
AP | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Authorities acted on a tip Sunday and searched a wide area in south-central North Carolina trying to find a 5-year-old girl...
Huffington Post | Tam Vo | Posted 11.09.2009 | Impact
Two-time Academy Award-winning British actress Emma Thompson is focusing her attention on the issue of human trafficking of women and young girls by c...
Abigail Pesta | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
You think slavery went out with Abraham Lincoln? Ask my friend Sreypov Chan about that. When she was seven years old, her mom sold her into sexual slavery.
Bob Cesca | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green
Without any real changes in how our food is produced, the health care system will continue to bloat and fall apart. Not unlike the insides of an average American body.
David Segal | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
Rhode Island is one of two states without blanket prostitution bans. It's only sanctioned in a few counties in Nevada, but in the Ocean State it's legal everywhere -- just not for much longer.
Aaron Cohen | Posted 10.25.2009 | Impact
Aaron Cohen travels undercover around the world attempting to rescue victims of sex trafficking. While on his missions, Cohen often tweets his experiences. This series of tweets were posted from Cambodia.
Reporters Uncensored | Posted 10.22.2009 | Impact
In a time where people are cynical about the excesses of capitalism, and corruption in the developing world is rampant there is a lone beacon of light: the social entrepreneurs.
Elise Garvey | Posted 10.22.2009 | Impact
Slavery and exploitation are not new issues. The more aware we are of its existence and how it continues to thrive in the world, the better off we are at fighting it.
Peggy Callahan | Posted 10.13.2009 | Impact
I dreamed up the Freedom Awards because in Free the Slaves we insist that the people who are closest to slavery should be the leaders and spokespersons of the anti-slavery movement. Who better to tell the world that this is real slavery?
The Morningside Post | Posted 11.21.2009 | World
More than 300,000 children are currently enslaved as restaveks in Haiti. They make up 3 percent of Haiti's population. More often than not they are emotionally and physically abused.
Zainab Salbi | Posted 11.21.2009 | World
Socially and economically marginalized Iraqi women are at high risk of trafficking, organized and forced prostitution, polygamy, domestic violence, and being recruited as suicide bombers.
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.17.2009 | Entertainment
A new documentary examines the various facets of human trafficking. The film, four years in the making, follows the stories of five people -- three women and two men.
Russell Simmons | Posted 11.17.2009 | World
An estimated 27 million human beings worldwide today are living lives of exploitation. They are objects of ownership, forgotten as children in need of love, nurturing and protection.
Melissa Silverstein | Posted 11.16.2009 | Entertainment
It's an underground issue that is about power, sex and money. But you can do something. If you are in New York, go and see the film Fatal Promises.
Cameron Sinclair | Posted 11.14.2009 | Business
What good is building a zero energy, carbon neutral complex if unethical labor practices are jeopardizing the lives of those who build this architectural wonder?
Geralyn Dreyfous | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
In a summer focused on the health care, and the deaths of renowned politicians and celebrities, there was all too little attention on a government report released in June 2009 on global human trafficking.
AP | Posted 08.26.2009 | World
NEWARK, N.J. — A man from the West African nation Togo has admitted his role in the smuggling of dozens of girls and women who were forced to wo...
Robin Sax | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
Why do we assume that this is really an "overseas" issue?
Eve Blossom | Posted 09.11.2009 | World
Many see the results of human trafficking and want to get involved; but more importantly, the focus should be on empowering the mechanisms to prevent it.
Al Jazeera | Al Jazeera | Posted 08.30.2009 | Home
More than one million people, the majority of them women and children, are smuggled across international borders to work in near slavery every year, t...
Kathleen McGowan | Posted 12.11.2009 | Impact