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Sign Petition: End Child Trafficking, Exploitation in Haiti
World  (tags: world, haiti, children, victims, prostitutes, sexual, abuse, violence, child, slavery, poverty, hunger, crime, freedoms, family, culture, society, rights, safety, sadness, abuse )

Tom
- 203 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
With 80 percent of Haitians living in poverty -- and half of them on less than a dollar a day -- a huge number of children are forced to work against their will in homes, fields, gangs and as prostitutes. As many as 200,000 children are victims.
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Al Jazeera - Focus - Ending Violence Against Women
World  (tags: World, International Women's Day, CEDAW, discrimination, women, rights, freedom, poverty, violence, honor killings, stoning, lashing, slavery, crime, safety, oppression, voting, work, education, health, families, children )

Tom
- 270 days ago - english.aljazeera.net
In many countries women are active participants in the political process and have made progress toward economic equality. However, women's rights to life, to physical integrity, to health, education and freedom from violence, remains largely unfulfilled.
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Desperate Plight of Nepal 'Slave Girls'
World  (tags: world, children, slavery, girls, orphans, poverty, rape, cruelty, money, education, human rights, freedom, nepal )

Tom
- 275 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
In the undergrowth, 13-year-old Junu Shrestha hacks away to gather fodder for her landlady's cattle. When she has collected a pile bigger than herself, she hoists it on her back and fixes it with a headband. She trudges back to the house, 20 minutes away.
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Slavery Persists, Even in U.S.
World  (tags: slavery, united states of america, global economy, UnitedNations, humanrights, freedoms )

Kemsa
- 399 days ago - pittsburghlive.com
Seven score and five years after Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, 40,000 to 50,000 still toil in the United States. And about 27 million in the world.
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Poorest Countries in the World
World  (tags: Poverty, Slavery, Exploitation, Child Labour, 'HUMANRIGHTS!' )

Ben
- 446 days ago - aneki.com
Malawi, Somalia, Afghanistan, Burundi, Tanzania...
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82-Year-Old American Woman Frees Child Slaves In Nepal (Video)
World  (tags: children, conflict, crime, humans, humanrights, violence, slavery )

Kathy
- 515 days ago - abcnews.go.com
This 82-year-old retired lawyer from California now spends half of her time living in Katmandu, Nepal, where she works to free child slaves.
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'House of Horror' Children Never Saw Daylight
World  (tags: 'HUMANRIGHTS!', children, crime, Austria, Slavery, Sadness, Abuse )

Dana
- 585 days ago - cnn.com
Story Highlights Father says he held daughter prisoner for nearly 24 years, fathered 7 children NEW: Police say Josef Fritzl forced her to write letter saying she had run away The daughter, now 42, has been missing since 1984, when she was 18
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One Man's Personal Mission To End Slavery in Mauritania
World  (tags: slavery, Mauritania )


- 619 days ago - washingtonpost.com
Among a knot of parents, Messaoud noticed the cousin of his family's owner and asked him to help him enroll, too. "I can't," the man replied. "What will your master say?"
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Senator Barck Obama's Historical Speech On Race 3-18-08 Pt. 1 of 4   video
World  (tags: Barack Obama, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., racism, USA, slavery, discrimination, lynching, war, equal rights )

Blue
- 625 days ago - youtube.com
Barack Obama give an historical speech on race relations in America.
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Eradicate Slavery and Child Labor Abuse in West African Ivory Coast
World  (tags: US, West Africa, Ivory Coast, child labor, slavery, boycott, children )

Kristmas
- 696 days ago - africa.reuters.com
"We believe that working together Ivory Coast will make (the deadline) and that industry has a major, major role to play," NY Congressman Eliot Engel. Child labor on cocoa farms is HOT issue following heavily-publicised campaigns by some rights groups..
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Slavery in the Fields: The Real Price of Sugar
World  (tags: Haitians, sugar plantations, slavery, crime, 'HUMANRIGHTS!' )

Kemsa
- 697 days ago - sfbayview.com
The Price of Sugar" is a powerful documentary about the plight of Haitians toiling on sugar plantations in the Dominican Republic. These workers cross the border from Haiti to labor in conditions that the film's central protagonist.....................
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Foreign Domestic Workers Face Serious Abuses -Violence, Harassment & Exploitation- From Middle East Employers
World  (tags: 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', 'HUMANRIGHTS!', MiddleEast, Violence against Women, Sri Lankan domestic workers, harassment, exploitation, slavery, violence, torture, abuse )

Alba
- 747 days ago - hrw.org
The govts of Middle Eastern countries expose these women to abuse by refusing to guarantee weekly rest day, limits to workday, freedom of movement & other rights taken for granted Human Rights Watch report says; should do more to protect them from labor
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Asian 'Child Slaves' at British Cannabis Farms: Report
World  (tags: child slaves, children, slaves, slavery, asian, child trafficking, cannabis, factories, child labor )

Sharon
- 802 days ago - news.yahoo.com
LONDON (AFP) - Criminal gangs are trafficking hundreds of children into Britain and forcing them to work in cannabis factories, with at least one child per week being found by police, a report said Sunday.
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360+ 'Slaves' Rescued: Mentally Handicapped Forced Into Slavery
World  (tags: asia, china, corruption, crime, freedoms, ethics, HumanRights, slavery, abuse, handicapped, labor, labor camps )

Michele
- 832 days ago - news24.com
Hundreds of mentally handicapped people have been rescued from slavery in Chinese brickyards & other workplaces. At least 1340 people, including 367 who are mentally handicapped, have been taken from brick kilns, mines and other forced labour situations.
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China Vows Crackdown on Slavery
World  (tags: china, children, slavery, child labour HumanRights, freedoms )

Kemsa
- 898 days ago - thestar.com
China announced a nationwide crackdown on enslavement and child labour today, in the highest admission yet of grim exploitation in rural brick kilns where official complicity has been charged.
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