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globalgirl FACTSHEET: Prostitution in Thailand

Posted in justice on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

“Estimates on the number of [Thai] women in prostitution range from 300,000 to 2.8 million, of which a third are minors.”

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A Genesis Week: Creating Hope for Bangkok’s Sex Workers

Posted in compassion, justice on July 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Home of New Beginnings—founded by American missionaries Roy and Bonita Thompson—is a place of grace in the hyper-sexualized chaos of Bangkok’s three major red light districts. It helps women who want to leave the sex trade. There is room for ex-prostitutes to live, learn a skill like sewing and learn about God and the gospel.

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Jobless Female Iraqi Students Losing Hope

Posted in justice, tagged , on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Lack of opportunities and growing conservatism prompts many educated young Iraqi women to contemplate emigration.

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Start with One

Posted in compassion, justice, tagged on April 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »

“If I can’t yet mourn a million people who left this world in a single day, I’ll start with one, and move from there,” says “Leah” in Barbara Kingsolver’s novel Poisonwood Bible. “And this is why I went to the Democratic Republic of Congo last year,” writes Tonya Sargent.

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China Traffickers Push Drugs on North Korean Defector Women

Posted in compassion, justice, tagged , , on March 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Human traffickers in China who hope to sell women fleeing North Korea have been known to push addictive drugs on their victims to make them submissive, defectors and experts say.

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Behind Chocolate’s Bars

Posted in justice, tagged , on March 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »

An estimated 12,000 children have been trafficked to Cote d’Ivoire, the world’s number one cocoa producer. Isn’t it about time chocolate came without the price tag of children sold into slavery?

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21 things you can do today to end sex trafficking

Posted in compassion, justice, tagged , on March 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Michelle Miller, an activist and executive director of REED, shares her list of action steps for anyone wanting to do something about sex trafficking today.

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Canada Can Say No: The Link between Legalized Brothels and Trafficking in Persons

Posted in justice, tagged , , on March 10, 2008 | 11 Comments »

Amidst the push to legalize brothels before the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Krista Bones takes a look at what that would really mean for the men, women and children involved.

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Mobilizing Women

Posted in compassion, justice, purpose, tagged , on January 31, 2008 | 3 Comments »

There’s a Chinese proverb that says, “When sleeping women wake, mountains move.” Idelette McVicker encourages us to wake up and take on the mountains of our world. There’s something you can do.

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Rape a “Weapon of War” in Eastern Congo

Posted in compassion, justice, tagged , , on January 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »

An epidemic of brutal sexual violence plagues the region where women are being raped with impunity. “It’s a strategy of war,” says Justine Masika who works for a Goma-based NGO that helps victims of sexual violence in North Kivu.

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