MOVE TO OUTLAW SLAVERY AND FORCED LABOUR IN UKJuly 08, 2009Law Central, timesonlinehttp://timesonline.typepad.com/law/2009/07/move-to-outlaw-slavery-and-forced-labour-in-uk.html Servitude and forced labour would becomes offences in the UK under an amendment to the Coroners and Justice Bill to be debated […]
PAKISTAN: TALIBAN BUYING CHILDREN FOR SUICIDE ATTACKSJuly 7, 2009 — Updated 0936 GMT (1736 HKT)From Nic Robertson, CNNhttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/07/pakistan.child.bombers/ ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — A top Taliban leader in Pakistan is buying and selling children for suicide […]
BRAZIL FREES 28,000 FROM SLAVE LABORAuthor: Prensa LatinaPeople’s Weekly World Newspaper, 07/01/09 08:25http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/16204/ More than 28,000 Brazilians have been rescued from conditions of modern slavery since 2003, according to figures of the Department of Work […]
IMPUNITY NO MOREby Luis Moreno-OcampoPublished: July 1, 2009http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/opinion/02iht-edocampo.html?hpwTHE HAGUE — In 1998, more than 100 states adopted the Rome Statute to end impunity for those crimes that we had thought, over and over, would never […]
THE SWEEP OF MODERN-DAY SLAVERYAs the global economy shrinks, human trafficking is on the rise – and it extends far beyond prostitutionby Melissa Ditmoreguardian.co.uk, Thursday 25 June 2009 17.00 BSThttp://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jun/24/human-trafficking-report-obamaAs jobs disappear and unemployment increases, […]
FREEZING FOR FREEDOM FROM SLAVERYPosted by James F. SmithApril 6, 2009 09:42 AMhttp://www.boston.com/news/world/worldly_boston/2009/04/freezing_toward_freedom_for_sl.html It’s appropriate that the global anti-slavery campaign has generated renewed energy in Massachusetts, in the form of a movement of college students […]
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