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

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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Politicians in Iraq are calling for better care and support for the growing number of orphans. Most orphans are taken in by family members, but due to Iraq’s weak economy and high inflation many of those families barely make ends’ meet themselves.

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Shirley Love Rayburn introduces us to Human Trafficking, the horror of modern-day slavery. “The key statistic that compelled me to action was that 80 percent of people trafficked are women; 50 percent are children. Those numbers woke me up and I was hungry to learn more.”

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