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From the lens Shop to Fight Modern Slavery.
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Graceonline
Mar 19, 2012 @ 12:39 pm | delete
- Thank you for adding another beam of light to this horrific practice. I live in a city where it is not difficult to see evidence of slavery and where periodic police raids in shuttered homes in respectable neighborhoods reveal long-standing slavery institutions.
In my opinion, the term "human trafficking," while descriptive, lessens the impact of the word slavery. I wish our media would call it what it is and do more to spotlight the extent of the problem.
More importantly, I wish our law enforcement agencies would spend half the money they spend waging "drug wars" to uncover, expose and prosecute slavers.
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goldenecho
Mar 19, 2012 @ 3:55 pm | delete
- I agree with you completely about the term "Human Trafficking." In addition to being a less powerful word, it can also be confusing. I had heard the term human trafficking and for the longest time didn't put it together with slavery...I thought it meant smuggling illegal aliens across the border. Very different thing! It wasn't until I read an article about slavery that also called it human trafficking that I put the two together (but it was "slavery" in the headline is what got me to read it). Even once I knew that human trafficking described slavery I still thought it was a broad term that also could refer to things like voluntary prostitution. It was only once I started researching slavery that I learned that, used correctly, it was always a term that applied to forced labor or forced prostitution of some kind. I figure I can't have been the only one who's been confused similarly.
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RenaissanceWoman2010
Dec 9, 2011 @ 2:24 pm | delete
- I truly appreciate this focus on such a tragic practice. It makes me think of a book (true story) I just read in which the slavery of sharecropping is part of the damage done to a man of our generation (Same Kind of Different As Me). Human trafficking, especially of children (forced sex workers), is such a sick practice. I don't understand why we allow it to continue.
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Koupie Dec 9, 2011 @ 1:47 pm | delete
- Wonderful lens for a great cause. I have shopped at the Animal Rescue site before and it funds bowls of food for animals etc, but didn't know there was one for the fight against slavery, thank you for the info, and I am going to get the Fair Trade app for sure :) Angel Blessed*
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marsha32 Dec 2, 2011 @ 10:18 am | delete
- There is a lot of information here that I didn't know!
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sherioz
Dec 1, 2011 @ 12:19 am | delete
- What an important topic!! And well covered here.
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