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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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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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Human Trafficking 101

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

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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Becoming an Abolitionist

Posted in globalgirl stories, justice, tagged , , , on October 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »

She used to dream of living in a hut in the wilds of Indonesia, but her great call to Adventure came, ironically, while settling down in the suburbs of LA. Now Shirley Love Rayburn finds herself staying home and taking on a task even bigger than her wildest dream: the plight of enslaved women and children around the world.

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