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Women: just pawns in the game

August 9, 2011 by Georgia Mullen 2 Comments

Mobster and human smuggler Bill Bedini was back in Albania after jumping bail in Texas. “This [is] payback to your Uncle Edmond for when I was in the United States,” he said as he beat two young women, nieces of the Albanian man who testified against him in the U.S. A human weed, Bedini kidnapped […]

Filed Under: Blog, Women's Rights Tagged With: African American, human slavery, human trafficking, Medicare, Modern-Day Slavery, NOW, poverty, prostitutes, prostitution, rape, sex trafficking, slavery, Social Security

Do you own a book?

September 7, 2010 by Georgia Mullen 1 Comment

Can you imagine not owning a book? Not even one book? Hard as it is to believe, millions of children in the United States cannot call even one book their own. While a middle-class child has approximately 13 books, there’s only one book floating around a low-income neighborhood of 300 children. To correct this inadequacy, […]

Filed Under: Blog, General Tagged With: books, First Book, literacy, literacy programs, low-income families, poverty, poverty line, reading, reading scores, reading tests

Women and poverty inextricably linked

January 31, 2010 by Georgia Mullen 3 Comments

“Poverty is the world’s worst human rights crisis,” declares Irene Khan in The Unheard Truth – Poverty and Human Rights. Khan, secretary general of Amnesty International from 2001 to 2009, recognizes “discrimination, state repression, corruption, insecurity, and violence” as human rights abuses. She also discusses issues such as the right to safe motherhood and says […]

Filed Under: Blog, Women's Rights Tagged With: extreme poverty, Irene Kahn, maternal mortality, poverty, Roma, safe motherhood, women's rights

Human trafficking: the new drug trafficking

January 28, 2010 by Georgia Mullen Leave a Comment

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 http://www.progress.org/2009/slavers.htm. The United Nations defines human trafficking as “The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring […]

Filed Under: Blog, Modern-Day Slavery Tagged With: Haiti, human trafficking, Mexico, physical abuse, poverty, restavek, sexual abuse, slavery, United Nations

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