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

• For two years, we offer housing, food, medical and dental needs, therapy, education and job training without charging the residents or receiving government funding.
• Our six homes function without 24-hour live-in staff, relying on residents to create a supportive community, maintain recovery, and share household tasks.
• Women come to Magdalene from prison, the streets and from across the Southeast and the country.
• The women of Magdalene/Thistle Farms range in…

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…

This is very very sad if it be true... Young people please discern...

There is a passage from Olive Schreiner's 1883 novel The Story of An African Farm where she describes the isolated existence of the rural Karoo, with its “weird and almost oppressive beauty...the stone walled sheep kraals and kaffer huts.” This cursory and derogatory description of farm worker's dwellings is perhaps the only time they feature in the book. Rather, labourers and their homes are considered part of the farm's natural landscape and as such are rendered invisible and silent…

Just this month, a 15-year-old Long Island girl escaped from her kidnappers who drugged and gang-raped her before selling her for sex. Where did they peddle her? You guessed it: Backpage. In their letter, the AGs referenced a May 2011 incident where a 15-year-old girl was forced to have sex with various men for $100 to $150 by a Dorchester, Mass., man. Backpage helpfully provided the outlet…

http://www.kare11.com/news/article/968680/391/Trial-underway-in-Twin-Cities-based-sex-trafficking-ring?odyssey=tab|topnews|bc|large

Nicholas D. Kristof

I WENT on a walk in Manhattan the other day with a young woman who once had to work these streets, hired out by eight pimps while she was just 16 and 17. She pointed out a McDonald’s where pimps sit while monitoring the girls outside, and a building where she had repeatedly been ordered online as if she were a pizza.…

A sex worker's life was the inspiration for leading designers of India to make a strong plea against human trafficking through their fashionwear at the ongoing Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WIFW) on Friday.

The Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI) collaborated with international NGO youcanfree.us to raise awareness against human trafficking. The show was inspired by an actual sex worker Alice (name changed), who was rescued by the NGO from GB Road, in the capital.

The…

Could you have possibly imagined that there are 30 million slaves in the world today, more than any other point in human history? Slavery is not limited to the brothels of Thailand or Cambodia, either. A 2011 CNN article estimated that there are 100,000 to 300,000 children between 11 and 14…

Rami Saban, 3 others convicted of smuggling women into Israel through Egypt, running Cyprus brothel, falsifying documents.

President Obama is declaring January to be National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month.

"We stand with all those who are held in compelled service," Obama wrote in a proclamation issued today. "We recognize the people, organizations and government entities that are working to combat human trafficking; and we recommit to bringing an end to this inexcusable human rights abuse."

Obama wrote that "trafficking networks operate both domestically and trans-nationally, and…

This is one of those important reads for all who raise their voice.... Please understand that money and making money will always undercut any label, even a "fair-trade label"...

"Clarisse Kambire’s nightmare rarely changes. It’s daytime. In a field of cotton plants that burst with purple and white flowers, a man in rags towers over her, a stick raised above his head. Then a voice booms, jerking Clarisse from her slumber and making her heart leap. “Get up!”…

3 Mexican citizens sentenced to 15 years for sex trafficking

Miami – Three Mexican citizens were sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday for conspiring to force Mexican women to engage in prostitution, following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). The defendants pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge in August.

According to evidence presented in court, from…

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More than 1,000 people have been arrested in a crackdown on human trafficking and sexual exploitation in Ciudad Juarez, officials in Mexico say.

The arrests were made during raids that began on Friday, in which police say they also rescued 20 underage women.

Dozens of bars and hotels in the city centre were searched for missing people, authorities said.

Ciudad Juarez - on the border with the US - is one of the most violent…

Check out Nickolas Kristof's latest piece from the NY Times...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/02/opinion/02kristof.html?_r=2&hp

Have you read or seen this long article in Vanity Fair.. Something to look at..

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2011/05/sex-trafficking-201105?printable=true

Reading my daily human trafficking google email. Came across this article about two swedes imprisoned for life after trafficking women into a cyber sex den.. It seems that cyber-sex dens are on the rise in certain areas, this one and others located in depressed / poverty ridden areas of the Philippines..

more here…

Someone sent me this link telling the story of a couple and their coffee dream. I believe this is something to support as it supports the lives of a few with the dream of many. Remember is starts with JustOne.

http://www.oregonlive.com/gresham/index.ssf/2011/02/wood_villages_eden_way_coffee.html

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