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SLIDESHOW: Art For A Better World: Five Exhibits That Inspire Change

Posted 11.18.2009 | Impact

Read More: South Africa, Art, Social Change, Emma Thompson, Venice Arts, Chicago, Slideshow, Un, Exhibitions, Cancer, Lance Armstrong, New York, Livestrong, Human Trafficking, Veterans, Impact News

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...

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Shaniya Davis Still Missing: 5-Year-Old Girl's Mother Antoinette Nicole Davis Accused Of Child Abuse Involving Prostitution

AP | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home

Read More: Daughter, Girl, Crime, Little Girl, Sold for Sex, North Carolina, Antoinette Nicole Davis, Mario Andrette Mcneill, Sexual Abuse, Pimped, Nc, Human Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Fayetteville North Caroline, Child Abuse, Shaniya Davis, Sold, Home News

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...

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Emma Thompson's 'Journey' Exhibit Spotlights Sex Trafficking

Huffington Post | Tam Vo | Posted 11.09.2009 | Impact

Read More: Trafficking, Emma Thompson, Sex Industry, Art Exhibit, Trafficked Women, Sex Trade, Violence, Sex Trafficking, New York City, Human Trafficking, Impact News

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...

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Diary of an Escaped Sex Slave

Abigail Pesta | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Human Rights, Somaly Mam, Slavery, Cambodia, Sreypov, Brothels, Human Trafficking, Sexual Slavery, Marie Claire, World News
Abigail Pesta

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.

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We Can't Reform Health Care without Reforming Food

Bob Cesca | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Big Food, Issue 2, Animal Rights, Humane Society, Rick Berman, Agriculture, Ohio, Illegal Immigration, Center for Consumer Freedom, Human Trafficking, Farms, Corporations, Rachel Maddow, Health Care Reform, Agribusiness, Food, Politics and Food, Health Care, Food Politics, Green News
Bob Cesca

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.

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Rhode Island Inches Closer To Banning Prostitution

David Segal | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sex Trafficking, Criminal Justice, Human Rights, Rhode Island, Prostitution, Sex, Human Trafficking, Craigslist Killer, Craigslist, Politics News
David Segal

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.

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My Latest Tweets From The Field: Cambodia

Aaron Cohen | Posted 10.25.2009 | Impact

Read More: Cambodia, Slave Hunter, Sex Trafficking, Twitter, Aaron Cohen, Human Trafficking, Impact News
Aaron Cohen

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.

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Reporters Uncensored: Underdogs And Social Innovators

Reporters Uncensored | Posted 10.22.2009 | Impact

Read More: Ashoka Foundation, Solar Energy, Social Change, Nepal, Third World, Human Trafficking, Impact News
Reporters Uncensored

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.

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Can We Have A World Without Slavery?

Elise Garvey | Posted 10.22.2009 | Impact

Read More: International Issues, Awareness, Exploitation, Human Trafficking, The Human Trafficking Project, Impact News
Elise Garvey

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.

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Live-Streaming The Freedom Awards: Celebrating Anti-Slavery Heroes

Peggy Callahan | Posted 10.13.2009 | Impact

Read More: Freedom, Human Traffickers, Sex Slavery, Slavery, Human Trafficking, Free the Slaves, Slaveholders, Freedom Awards, Slavery Survivors, Impact News
Peggy Callahan

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?

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Child Slavery in Haiti: Odette's Story

The Morningside Post | Posted 11.21.2009 | World

Read More: Child Slaves, Haiti, Poverty, Columbia University, Foreign Affairs, Slavery, Human Trafficking, Restavek, World News
The Morningside Post

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.

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Where Are Iraqi Women Today?

Zainab Salbi | Posted 11.21.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq War, Women, Iraq, Widows, Female Suicide Bombers, Female Suicide Bomber Iraq, Human Trafficking, World News
Zainab Salbi

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.

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Emma Thompson, Featured in Fatal Promises, Speaks Out on Human Trafficking

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Sexual Trafficking, Equalilty Now, Emma Thompson, Nomi Network, U.N. Global Initiative to Fight Trafficking, United Nations, Gloria Steinem, Tier 2 Watrch List, Documentary Film, Now, Ngo, Psa, Eliot Spitzer, US State Department, United Arab Emirates, Human Trafficking, Fatal Promises, Prostitution, Kat Rohrer, Helen Bamber Foundation, Journey, Art Installation, History Starts Now, New York State Anit-Trafficking Law, Catw, Entertainment News
Marcia G. Yerman

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.

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Twenty-Seven Million Slaves

Russell Simmons | Posted 11.17.2009 | World

Read More: Somalia, Migrant Smuggling, Children, Child Labor, Human Trafficking, Slavery, Debt Bondage, World News
Russell Simmons

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.

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Fatal Promises: A Look at Human Trafficking

Melissa Silverstein | Posted 11.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Fatal Promises, Sex Trafficking, Emma Thompsan, Human Trafficking, Entertainment News
Melissa Silverstein

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.

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Dying To Work: Human Trafficking and the Construction Industry

Cameron Sinclair | Posted 11.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Skyscraper, Uae, Dubai, Zero Carbon, Ethics, Design, Building, Architecture, Human Trafficking, Business News
Cameron Sinclair

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?

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Fighting Human Trafficking, One House Party at A Time

Geralyn Dreyfous | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

Read More: Advocacy, Human Trafficking, Slavery, World News
Geralyn Dreyfous

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.

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Lassissi Afolabi: Togo Man Admits To Smuggling Girls, Forcing Them To Work At Hair Braiding Salons

AP | Posted 08.26.2009 | World

Read More: Kidnapping, Lassissi Afolabi, Hair Braiding Salons, Togo, Forced Labor, Human Trafficking, World News

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...

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Human Trafficking: A Problem of Language?

Robin Sax | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robin Sax, Sexual-Exploitation, Child Sexual Abuse, Human Trafficking, Politics News
Robin Sax

Why do we assume that this is really an "overseas" issue?

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Cambodia: Collaboration is Needed

Eve Blossom | Posted 09.11.2009 | World

Read More: Unemployment, Economic Crisis, Collaboration, Southeast Asia, Cambodia, Jobs, Sustainability, Business, Human Trafficking, Women's Rights, Garment Industry, Sex Workers, Garment Workers, Sex Work, International Labor Organization, World News
Eve Blossom

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.

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Sex Trafficking Plagues UAE (VIDEO)

Al Jazeera | Al Jazeera | Posted 08.30.2009 | Home

Read More: Uae, Human Trafficking, Sex Trafficking, Ukrainian Uae, Sex, Uae Human Trafficking, Uae Sex Trafficking, Dubai, Home News

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...

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Mongolia: Sex Trafficking Takes Its Toll On Young Women

GlobalPost | Posted 08.22.2009 | World

Read More: Mongolia Trafficking, Sex Trafficking, Modern Slavery, Mongolia Sex Trafficking, Mongolia, Human Trafficking, World News

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia -- Nomin wanted to go to college. Three years ago, unable to afford tuition in the Mongolian capital, the native of remote Zavkh...

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Human Trafficking Crackdown Avoided In Albania With Speedboats

New York Times | Posted 08.17.2009 | World

Read More: Prostitution, Forced Prostitution, Europe Human Trafficking, Albania, Foreign Affairs, Albania Human Trafficking, Africa Human Trafficking, Advocacy, Human Trafficking, World News

It was only after her trafficker sealed her mouth with electrical tape, drugged her and threatened to kill her family that the childlike woman, now 27...

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Burmese Refugees Sold As Slaves In Malaysia (VIDEO)

WorldFocus | Posted 08.13.2009 | World

Read More: Video, Burma, Foreign Affairs, United Nations, Statelessness, Thailand, Gangs, Myanmar, Stateless to Statehood, Refugees, Karen Zusman, Advocacy, Human Trafficking, World News

In Malaysia, some immigration officials have been accused of involvement in selling refugees from Myanmar, also known as Burma, to gangs in Thailan...

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Mexican Man Allegedly Tries To Sell Woman, 4 Kids To U.S. For $2,000 Each

AP | Posted 07.30.2009 | World

Read More: Mexico City, Man Sells Woman, United States, Mexico, Sonora, Prostitutes, Cananea, Human Trafficking, Mexico City Tries to Sell Four People, Mexican Tries Selling Girls and Stepsons as Prostitues, World News

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A Mexican man has been detained for allegedly plotting to sell a young woman, two girls and two boys for $2,000 apiece in the Unit...

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