Award-winning actor Alec Baldwin, who hosts the WNYC’s new podcast series “Here’s the Thing“, recently interviewed Rob Morris, President and Co-Founder of Love146, a child trafficking rescue organization. Rob says to Alec: “This is not about an issue, this is not about a cause. This is somebody’s daughter, this is about somebody’s son. Little boy. Little [...]
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Alec Baldwin and Rob Morris: “Fighting Child Trafficking”
Posted in Girls, Justice, tagged Child Slavery, Child Trafficking, Sex Trafficking on February 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Child Slaves of Chocolate
Posted in Justice, tagged Child Labor, Chocolate, cnn freedom project, Cocoa, slavery on February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Americans will purchase around 58 million pounds of chocolate during the days leading up to the 14th (a fraction of the reported 3 billion pounds per year), and we pay around $345 million to satisfy our Valentine’s sweet tooth, according to Nielsen. But for thousands of people, chocolate means slavery. From the CNN Freedom Project: [...]
Colorado WOV prepare for Sheryl WuDunn event
Posted in Justice, WOV News, tagged Colorado, Dave Diepenbrock, Politics, Sheryl WuDunn, Women of Vision on February 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
As enthusiasm builds in Colorado in preparation for the Women of Vision Colorado chapter’s upcoming event “Beauty from Ashes: Turning Oppression into Opportunity” with featured speaker Sheryl WuDunn, news editor Dave Diepenbrock reminds us that compassion and mercy is not partisan issues. In a recent article in Colorado Peak Politics he writes “Regardless of our political [...]
Sex And The Super Bowl: Indianapolis Puts Spotlight On Teen Sex Trafficking
Posted in Girls, Justice, tagged Child Trafficking, Domestic Trafficking, Sex Trafficking, Super Bowl on February 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
From Forbes: “…Super Bowl weekend is considered to be the largest sex trafficking event in the United States each year, a number estimated by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children who says the 2010 Miami Super Bowl brought 10,000 prostitutes to the city. By the same group’s measure 2011’s Dallas Super Bowl resulted [...]
AFRICA: High cost of child trafficking
Posted in Justice, tagged Child Labor, Child Rights, Children, conflict, human trafficking, Poverty on January 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
From IRIN News: “Forced child labour remains rampant in Central Africa, where poverty fuels the trafficking of children from poorer countries to oil-rich states such as Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and the Republic of Congo, according to experts. “Trafficking in children is real,” said Gabon’s social affairs director-general, Mélanie Mbadinga Matsanga. “Gabon, for example, is considered [...]
Girls for sale! Changing the conversation on exploited kids in the U.S.
Posted in Girls, Justice, tagged GEMS, human trafficking, Rachel Lloyd, Sexual Eploitation, Trafficking on January 26, 2012 | 2 Comments »
January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month and we are excited to share with you the insightful interview of Rachel Lloyd, advocate and activist, in Forbes Magazine. Author of Girls Like Us and founder of GEMS (Girls Educational and Mentoring Services), Rachel is a nationally recognized expert on the issue of child sex trafficking in America. From Forbes: [...]
Want to help India’s children? Empower mothers
Posted in Justice, Women, tagged India, Land Rights, Malnutrition, Poverty, Women on January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A growing body of global research is pointing India toward a solution for its child-malnutrition crisis, which rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa: Give women legal control of the land they farm with their husbands. “Women in India have a lower status and therefore less control over resources, both land and money, and consequently do not [...]
Fighting for the rights of child soldiers
Posted in Girls, Justice, tagged Central African Republic, Child Soldiers, Somalia, UNICEF on January 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
From IRIN News: “At end-November 2011, Somalia and the Central African Republic became the latest countries to commit to end the use of child soldiers – a move seen as “encouraging” by the UN, albeit with the proviso that the situation in both countries remains volatile. All sides to the Somali conflict have reportedly been [...]
National Conference updates
Posted in Justice, Politics, Resources, Women, WOV News, tagged Every Woman Has A Story, National Conference, Women on January 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We are getting excited for our upcoming WOV National Conference “Every Woman Has A Story”! Only 2 months to go! Make sure you and other partners from your chapter have registered since registration closes in early February. Browse the speaker bios and the list of breakout sessions to get excited about what is offered. Brush up [...]
Suphalee and her sister help raise awareness on dangers of human trafficking
Posted in Girls, Justice, WV Programs, tagged human trafficking, Laos, Thailand, Trafficking, World Vision on January 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Suphalee, 16, and her elder sister are active World Vision anti-trafficking project volunteers in Atsaphone District in Savannakhet province. Prior to learning about the dangers of trafficking, Suphalee thought, “If someone comes and encourages me to work in another country with a good salary, I don’t think I will refuse it.” Things are different now. [...]
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