Slaves weave Jersey hair braids

We don’t have auction blocks in center city anymore, but people are still being enslaved in America–often in plain sight. Consider the preteen girls from Togo and Ghana, whose families were tricked into thinking they were sending their daughters to the United States for an education and...

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Buy gifts made by sex slave survivors

Strength. Compassion. Empowerment. These are qualities to celebrate this holiday season. Qualities that translate into gifts that will do more than bring a fleeting smile. At the Somaly Mam Foundation Empowerment Store, you can purchase a survivor-made product and help a survivor become financially...

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Tricked into sexual slavery

Somaly Mam was tricked into becoming a sex slave when she was a 12-year-old Cambodian orphan by a man who said he could find her parents. Instead he dumped her in a brothel. She suffered the life for ten years then escaped. Today she is the founder of the Somaly Mam Foundation and committed to...

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Modern-day slavery alive among US domestic workers

Modern day slavery doesn’t occur only on the other side of the world or in poor countries. It’s common right in the United States. Social worker Tiffany Williams has aided a 24-year-old nanny forced to sleep on the basement floor in freezing temperatures and beg for food scraps from the...

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Human trafficking: the new drug trafficking

Human trafficking is the world’s fastest growing unlawful industry. This year it is predicted to surpass the illegal drug trade, making it the world’s leading criminal activity. So say articles by Evens Sanon, Jonathan Katz and Megan McAdams in The Progress Report...

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