“Three Florida fruit-pickers, held captive and brutalized [sic] by their employer for more than a year, finally broke free of their bonds by punching their way through the ventilator hatch of the van in which they were imprisoned. Once outside, they dashed for freedom” (The Independent, 2007). Marino Lucas, Jose Velasquez, and Jose Hari had [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Human Rights’
The Connection Between Faith, Human Trafficking, and Immigration
Posted: February 28, 2011 in Forced Labor, modern day slavery, Take action, What You Can DoTags: Commercial Sexual Exploitation, Forced Labor, Human Rights, human trafficking, immigration, modern day slavery, Slavery in America, What you can do!
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Video featuring Stop the Traffik
Posted: February 2, 2011 in human trafficking, modern day slavery, Resources, Sex Slavery, slaveryTags: Commercial Sexual Exploitation, Human Rights, human trafficking, Human Trafficking in America, modern day slavery, Resources, Sex Slavery, slavery, Slavery in America, videos
So I’ve been spending this cold, rainy, yucky evening finding more blogs about human trafficking. There’s so much good information out there that I got caught up and never ended up writing my own blog post! Instead, I decided to post this striking video by Sparks Productions I found on the Stop the Traffik blog. [...]
Human Trafficking Public Service Announcement-before you hit play
Posted: October 17, 2008 in human trafficking, modern day slavery, ResourcesTags: Human Rights, human trafficking, modern day slavery, multi-media, prostitution, videos
I recently came across this public service announcement produced by the Helen Bamber Foundation, a UK based organization. They have a program called Journey, who works to “is to bring the reality of the sex trafficking industry to the forefront of social consciousness and empower people to take action. Shackles bind perpetrators to victims, and [...]
Two videos telling the stories of trafficking victims
Posted: October 17, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Human Rights, human trafficking, modern day slavery, modern day trafficking, prostitution
This video highlights a story of a 14 yea old girl being forced into slavery in the US. The comments from local people about this event demonstrate a lack of understanding of the nature of prostitution and slavery. Regardless of how old a person is, anyone under the age of 18 that is being prostituted [...]
Some new resources
Posted: October 6, 2008 in modern day slavery, ResourcesTags: Commercial Sexual Exploitation, Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, Forced Labor, Human Rights, human trafficking, modern day slavery, Research & Education, Resources, Sex Slavery
I’m a big fan of podcasts-I download them and burn them onto a CD for a trip or put them onto my iPod for my weekly treks into NYC for an internship. So I thought I’d check out what podcasts are available through iTunes (the easiest way to search for and download podcasts). I have [...]
A Florida Family Plead Guilty to Enslaving Workers
Posted: September 6, 2008 in modern day slaveryTags: Forced Labor, Human Rights, modern day slavery, Prosecution of Traffickers, slavery, Slavery in America, Unfair trade
“I think most Americans would find it hard to believe that people in our country are pleading guilty to slavery charges in the year 2008, but that is what is going on in the tomato fields of Florida….While slavery is, of course, the most extreme situation in the tomato fields, the truth is that the [...]
