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Diary of an Escaped Sex Slave

Abigail Pesta | Posted 11.06.2009 | 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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Creating Gender Equality In The 21st Century

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Equality, Women's Movement, Human Rights, Congo, Gender Inequality, Slavery, Women's Rights, Living News
Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

Nichlas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's recent book "Half the Sky" is a call of awakening for all men and women to take action and right the wrongs existing in the world today because of gender inequality.

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Enteric Disease impact on Global Health, Human Rights, and Environmental Degradation

Lisa Conte | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Clean Water, Global Health, Clinton Global Initiative, Pharmaceutical Industry, Diarrhea, Slavery, Business News
Lisa Conte

One of the collateral benefits of working in the global health arena is being reminded that disease doesn't exist in isolation.

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'Half The Sky' With Nicholas Kristof: A Morally Persuasive Call to Action

Dr. Alex Benzer | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Microlending, Economic Development, Sex Trafficking, Maternal Health, Somaly Mam, Happiness, Sheryl WuDunn, Microsavings, Education, Half the Sky, Oppression of Women, Grameen Bank, Slavery, Nicholas Kristof, Meaningful Work, Childbirth, Alex Benzer, Women's Rights, Living News
Dr. Alex Benzer

In their lucid and levelheaded way, Kristof and WuDunn build a powerful moral case for fostering economic progress in the developing world by unleashing the potential of women.

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Set Children Free From Human Trafficking

Rani Hong | Posted 10.29.2009 | Impact

Read More: Tronie Foundation, Child Labor, India, Child Slavery, Child Trafficking, Slavery, Impact News
Rani Hong

Child slaves are often the unseen hands holding up the economy of the nation, hidden in their places of bondage from the sight of the people buying the work of their labor.

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Of Human Bondage: Slavery Bigger Than Ever in America

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

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

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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John Brown's Body Lies A-Moldering in Upstate New York

Alfred Gingold | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York

Read More: History, Heroes, Harpers Ferry, Terrorism, Slavery, Terrorist, Civil War, Race, John Brown, Race Relations, Lake PLacid, New York News
Alfred Gingold

150 years after his raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown looms ever larger in the national psyche, either a great martyr to a just and necessary cause, or our first domestic terrorist.

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Prisoner's Dilemma: Should a Chicago Alderman Relish His Opposition to Felony Franks?

Marilia Duffles | Posted 10.15.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Hot Dogs, Chicago, Slavery, Social Ills, Neurology, Rehabilitation, Frederick Douglass, Felony Franks, Jimmy Andrews, Chicago City Council, Barack Obama, Robert Fioretti, Felons, Chicago News
Marilia Duffles

Leave it to a Wall Street Journal story this week about a Chicago alderman's opposition to Jimmy Andrews' Felony Franks -- a hot dog joint that hires ...

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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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Michelle Obama: Family History Of First Lady Is Complex, Tied To Slavery

The New York Times | RACHEL L. SWARNS and JODI KANTOR | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Relatives, Dolphus Shields, Great-Great-Great-Grandparents, Melvinia Shields, First Lady, Michelle Obama, White Father, Ancestry, Slavery, Roots, Slave Mother, Family History, Michelle-Obama-Ancestry, Politics News

Melvinia Shields, the enslaved and illiterate young girl, and the unknown white man who impregnated her are the great-great-great-grandparents of Mich...

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Fossil Fuel Is the New Slavery: Morally and Economically Corrupt

Robin Chase | Posted 10.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Barbara Boxer, Copenhagen 2009, Economy, John Kerry, Waxman-Markey, Slavery, Climate Change, Morality, Climate Bill, Green News
Robin Chase

Ownership of another human being and reaping the benefit of their labor is repugnant. While burning fossil fuels is not as intimately observable or viscerally felt, there is a direct link from our actions to individual suffering.

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The Hanged Census Worker: Why Appalachia Hates Feds

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Whiskey Rebellion, Barter System, Stockholder, Marijuana, Prohibition, Feds, Newport, Civil War, Infrastructure, Moonbow, Grass, Occupational Safety, Nancy Pelosi, Environmental Movements, Coal Mine, Right to Vote, Mohawk, Lawless, Bill Tweed, Boss System, Indefeasible, Beverly Hillbillies, Hung, Ca, Louisville, George Washington, Appalachian, Civic, Tennessee, Census Worker, Mountaintop Removal, New York City Boss William Tweed, Civil Rights, Census Taker, Mystery, Kentucky Constitution, Second American Revolution, Food Safety, Pot, U.S. Constitution, Pittsburgh, Public School System, Declaration of Independence, Indiana Constitution, Cumberland Plateau, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Inalienable, Daniel Boone National Forest, Bill Sparkman, Bluegrass, Ohio, Slavery, Lexington, Illinois, Coalmine, Federal Agents, Women’s, Appalachia, Hemp, Public Health, Daniel Boone U.S. Congress, Irish Immigrants, Democracy, Middle Class Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania, Mountain, Capitalism, Bossism, Meth, Consumer, Murder, Labor, Southeastern Kentucky, Prison, Oxycontin, Big Coal, 1791, Fbi, Self-Organizing, Indiana, Hanged, Politics News
Gail McGowan Mellor

The U.S. government began its life back in 1791 by shafting the Appalachian area. People have not forgotten it, perhaps because it has yet to stop happening.

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Child Slavery in Haiti: Odette's Story

The Morningside Post | Posted 09.24.2009 | 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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A Case for Republican Secession (From Itself)

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Qaeda, Slavery, Rush Limbaugh, Afghanistan, John Boehner, Adultry, Pakistan, Secession, Taliban, Race Baiting, Lindsey Graham, Civil War, Glen Beck, S.C. Governor Mark Sanford, Republican Party, Politics News
Michael B. Laskoff

Sometimes the body from which a political party springs is so filled with bile and corruption that its healthiest components should seek to go their own way. A case in point is today's Republican Party.

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Twenty-Seven Million Slaves

Russell Simmons | Posted 09.17.2009 | 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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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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Sex and Voting

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women's Rights, 19th Amendment, Universal Suffrage, Women's Suffrage, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Nineteenth Amendment, Slavery, Abigail Adams, Politics News
Kenneth C. Davis

On this date in 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified by the necessary two-thirds of the states and women were granted the right to vote. Somewhere Abigail Adams was smiling.

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Decline Can Make Britain a Better Country

Alex Higgins | Posted 09.11.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq War, History, Newsweek, Labour Party, Tony Blair, Foreign Affairs, Decline, Slavery, Africa, Britain, America, Afghanistan War, South America, Nazi Germany, Colonialism, The Civil War, Tony Blair European Union, India Economy, Foreign Policy, Great Britain, Britain-Afghanistan, World War II, Imperialism, China Economy, Britain Iraq, World News
Alex Higgins

There is a distinct lack of enthusiasm for attempting to govern other parts of the world by force, let alone envy of the global superpower.

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Slavery Legal in America Again (VIDEO)

Max Keiser | Posted 09.01.2009 | Business

Read More: The Collapse Gap, Debt Slavery, On the Edge, Goldman Sachs, Dmitry Orlov, Slavery, Dr. Housing Bubble, Business News
Max Keiser

Debt slavery, i.e., penury, i.e., POS 'Plain Old Slavery' is making a comeback in America thanks to Wall St. banks.

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Slavery, Abolition, Rebellion: A Reading List

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 08.24.2009 | Living

Read More: African-American Issues, History Books, Pat Buchanan, African American History, Books, Slavery, Reading List, Skip Gates, Sally Hemings, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Living News
Kenneth C. Davis

All of these books should provide some correctives to the deep misunderstanding -- or desperate ignorance -- of this extremely important chapter in American History.

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North Korea Labor Camp Atrocities Revealed In New Report

Washington Post | Posted 08.20.2009 | World

Read More: North Korea Slavery, Laura Ling Euna Lee, North Korean Labor Camps, Laura Ling, Foreign Affairs, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong-Il, North Korea Missile Test, North Korea Labor Camps, North Korea Missile, North Korea Nuclear Program, Slavery, Labor Camps, Euna Lee, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, Advocacy, North Korea, World News

Images and accounts of the North Korean gulag become sharper, more harrowing and more accessible with each passing year....

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NYC Slavery Walking Tour

Sheryl McCarthy | Posted 08.13.2009 | New York

Read More: Slavery, History, New-York-History, Slave Trade, New York, American History, Financial District, New York City, City Hall, South Street Seaport, African-American History, New York News
Sheryl McCarthy

I bet few New Yorkers know about the role that the hideous institution of slavery played in shaping the city physically, financially and socially.

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George Washington: The Dignity and the Slavery

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Oped Column, David Brooks, New York Times, Obama, Sanford, George Washington, Palin, Slavery, Politics News
Kenneth C. Davis

In his catalog of Washington's public virtues and civility, David Brooks neglected to mention that George Washington owned, bought and sold his fellow human beings.

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A Call to Serve and Preserve Creation

Jim Wallis | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, History, Leadership, Love Your Neighbor, Global, Slavery, International, Opportunity, Poll, Trade, Sacrifice, Green, Clean Energy, Congress, Emissions, Priorities, God, Poor, Consumption, Legislation, America, Church of England, Slave Trade, Climate Treaty, Christ, Climate Change, Land, Consumers, Polluting Industries, Security, Christian, Creation, Green News
Jim Wallis

Let's ensure that history does not remember us just as "consumers" of the earth and its resources, but as people who take seriously the God-given mandate to "serve and preserve" the earth.

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An Open Letter to President George W. Bush About Apology, Healing and Reconciliation

Carol M. Swain | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Racial Politics, Slavery Apology, Democratic Congress, Apology, Barack Obama, Republicans, Slavery, Politics News
Carol M. Swain

Although some may argue that an apology for slavery would open the door to racial reparations, legal precedent demonstrates that an apology for slavery would not trigger legal liability.

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