As I continue researching modern-day slavery and human trafficking, I am feeling overwhelmed again. There is so much information and so many books, websites and organizations about this issue that I don't even know what to ...
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Archive by Category | human trafficking
Overwhelmed
December 29, 2009 by
Justice for the Oppressed
December 26, 2009 by
The following Psalm brings to my mind how human traffickers prey upon the poor. They are the wicked who sit in ambush in the villages, watching for the helpless and seizing the poor, thinking that God will never see it. Yet ...
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Abolition in the 21st Century
December 23, 2009 by
I just came across a couple more websites about modern-day slavery that are worth checking out. According to their website, The A21 Campaign "stands for abolishing injustice in the 21st century. Anyone can join - everyone ...
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Top 10 Facts About Modern-day Slavery
December 22, 2009 by
Slavery: forced to work without pay under threat of violence and unable to walk away.
27 million slaves in the world today.
Slavery is not legal anywhere but happens everywhere.
The majority of slaves can be found in India ...
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Modern-day Slavery in America
December 18, 2009 by
Human trafficking is happening all over the world, including America. Click here and here to read two recent articles about this awful tragedy in America. ...
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Love146
December 9, 2009 by
Love146 is an organization that is working to abolish child slavery and exploitation through prevention and aftercare. They quote Martin Luther King Jr. as saying, "Justice at its best is love correcting everything that ...
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Terrify No More
December 7, 2009 by
Terrify No More, by IJM founder and president, Gary Haugen with Gregg Hunter is the compelling true account of IJM's courageous and heroic undercover rescue of young girls held as slaves in a brothel in Cambodia. I am not ...
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International Justice Mission
December 6, 2009 by
International Justice Mission is a Christian organization and, as stated on their website, "a human rights agency that secures justice for victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression. IJM ...
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Not For Sale
December 1, 2009 by
After reading about William Wilberforce, I became aware of the book, Not For Sale, by David Batstone. This book deals with modern-day slavery, or as the subtitle puts it, The Return of the Global Slave Trade - and How We Can ...
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What? Really? Slavery Still Exists? So What Can I Do About It?
November 22, 2009 by
When I first found out that slavery is still going on today, I was shocked. I thought it ended over a hundred years ago. Then, when I started reading books about modern-day slavery, not only was I shocked, I was and still ...
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