Greg Russinger's Blog Posts Tagged 'endingslavery' (4)

Undercover officers rounded up 92 people in a prostitution sweep that included the arrests of a youth minister and a man on a honeymoon. (more here)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/14/samuel-yoon-youth-minister_n_3272619.html

We are here again giving our full attention to this inhumane bondage and oppression.

Many are taking on this battle, some of which we have had relationship with and consider to be the major players in this pieceful movement...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organizations_opposing_human_trafficking

Appreciate Sojourners article today and thought I would share…

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The girls—some as young as age 12—were smuggled into the U.S. from their village homes in Guatemala. Their impoverished parents were told that their daughters would be working in restaurants

and jewelry stores in California and would earn good wages that could

be sent back to their families.

Instead, upon arriving in Los Angeles, the girls were taken to have their eyebrows tattooed and their hair colored and then forced to work the streets as…

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month is a time to recommit to stopping human traffickers, U.S. President Barack Obama said.



"The victims of modern slavery have many faces. They are men and women, adults and children," Obama said in a proclamation Monday declaring January National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. "Yet, all are denied basic human dignity and freedom."



Even though the "dim years of chattel slavery"… Continue