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Georgia Ann Mullen on July 23, 2011 |
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I was nearly speechless last week when a friend asked, “What is modern day slavery?”
“Women forced into prostitution,” I blurted. “Forced farm labor!” Is what I see and read about every day invisible to the average American?
Twenty-seven million people–the...
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Georgia Ann Mullen on February 28, 2011 |
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Sexual harassment in Egypt has reached plague proportions. To combat the relentless attack on women’s rights—mainly the right to not be physically and emotionally molested—a group of creative women launched a new website last year called HarassMap.org, which encourages female victims of...
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Georgia Ann Mullen on January 31, 2010 |
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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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Georgia Ann Mullen on January 28, 2010 |
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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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