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Showing posts with label Child slavery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Child slavery. Show all posts
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Monday, February 3, 2014
When is a slave a slave?
Source: the guardian
The abilty to clearly define a problem focuses remedial action.
Read Beate Andrees' articles in Guardian Professional,
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2014/jan/31/child-slavery-legal-definitions-ilo?CMP=new_1194&et_cid=53278&et_rid=6861665&Linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.theguardian.com%2fglobal-development-professionals-network%2f2014%2fjan%2f31%2fchild-slavery-legal-definitions-ilo%3fCMP%3d%%_p_cmp%%
The abilty to clearly define a problem focuses remedial action.
Read Beate Andrees' articles in Guardian Professional,
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2014/jan/31/child-slavery-legal-definitions-ilo?CMP=new_1194&et_cid=53278&et_rid=6861665&Linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.theguardian.com%2fglobal-development-professionals-network%2f2014%2fjan%2f31%2fchild-slavery-legal-definitions-ilo%3fCMP%3d%%_p_cmp%%
Friday, July 26, 2013
How poverty wages for tea pickers fuel India's trade in child slavery | World news | The Observer
How poverty wages for tea pickers fuel India's trade in child slavery | World news | The Observer
"Millions of Brits drink a cup of Assam tea each day, but it comes at a terrible price. Plantation workers on 12p an hour are easy prey for traffickers who lure away their daughters to India's cities. Now pressure is growing on big tea brands to safeguard better pay"
Continue reading here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/20/poverty-tea-pickers-india-child-slavery#_=_
"Millions of Brits drink a cup of Assam tea each day, but it comes at a terrible price. Plantation workers on 12p an hour are easy prey for traffickers who lure away their daughters to India's cities. Now pressure is growing on big tea brands to safeguard better pay"
Continue reading here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/20/poverty-tea-pickers-india-child-slavery#_=_
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Former child slave: 'There is hope' : The Lincoln Journal Star Online
http://journalstar.com/news/local/former-child-slave-there-is-hope/article_6e6c60c8-9fc9-56fa-bed5-a64e8ac4d4db.html?comment_form=true
Source: The Lincoln Journal Star Online
Source: The Lincoln Journal Star Online
Where James Kofi Annan is from, a young boy's life is worth less than a fishing net.
Impoverished families living on the shores of Ghana's largest lake often sell their children into slavery for just $40.
Annan was one of these children.
Now an adult, Annan recounted the beatings, the 17-hour workdays and the fear that engulfed him to a crowd at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Thursday as part of the Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking.
"This fishing industry has an unquenchable thirst for the labor of children just to minimize the cost," he said. "This cannot be right."
At 13, Annan escaped slavery, taught himself to read and write and eventually earned a college degree. Now, he's devoted his life to ending modern-day slavery through Challenging Heights, an organization he founded to free children from hard labor and empower them with education.
"There is hope," he said. "The hope is you and me."
Annan's lecture was a fitting way to kick off one of the pre-eminent academic conferences on human trafficking in the country, said Ari Kohen, an associate professor of political science and organizer of the event.
“(Child labor) certainly is a different type of trafficking than what you normally think when you hear ‘human trafficking,’” Kohen said. “But labor is a huge component of modern-day slavery.”
The conference was created after university faculty members from several different disciplines discovered their shared interest in researching and raising awareness about human trafficking.
As many as 27 million people are enslaved worldwide. Organizers hope the research presented will help researchers, government officials, academics and law enforcement to understand and stop the trade.
“There are other, larger conferences on how to fight human trafficking, which are attended by law enforcement and those involved in rehabilitation,” said Dwayne Ball, a conference organizer and associate professor of marketing at UNL. “This conference has become the most important conference for the dissemination of research and knowledge.”
This summer, Ball and other UNL faculty members — with backgrounds ranging from law to advertising to computer science — received a grant from Microsoft to study the role of the Internet and technology in human trafficking.
The conference, now in its fourth year, along with years of work by local advocates, has made a tangible impact in Lincoln and at the Legislature, Kohen said.
This April, the Gov. Dave Heineman approved LB1145, a bill that ramped up penalties for pandering, created a task force to investigate and study human trafficking in Nebraska and placed posters at rest stops and strip clubs to guide victims to assistance.
The bill was introduced by Lincoln Sen. Amanda McGill, who spoke at a panel discussion at noon Thursday alongside keynote speaker Kristiina Kangaspunta, the deputy director of the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute.
In addition, UNL students have formed an active human trafficking advocacy group and hatched the idea for a public art display to raise awareness about human trafficking, which took the form of colorfully painted benches installed in November at 12th and P streets.
The scope of the problem in Nebraska is unknown, Ball said. Until recently, the funds to study human trafficking locally just haven’t been available.
“Everyone who comes to the conference feels that a great deal more needs to be understood,” Ball said. “And knowledge is not always a cheap enterprise.”
The conference continues Friday and Saturday. A free public screening of “The Pink Room,” a documentary about sex slavery and human trafficking in Cambodia, will be screened at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center.
Monday, December 13, 2010
About the Film :: Not My Life :: A Film by Worldwide Documentaries, Inc. :: The Way The World Is
A film about slavery in our time -- a story about the way the world is.
Not My Life is the first documentary film to depict the horrifying and dangerous practices of human trafficking and modern slavery on a global scale.
Filmed on five continents over a period of four years, Not My Life unflinchingly, but with enormous dignity and compassion, depicts the unspeakable practices of a multi-billion dollar global industry whose profits, as the film's narration says, "are built on the backs and in the beds of our planet's youth."
While acknowledging that trafficking and slavery are universal crimes, affecting millions of human beings all over the world, Not My Life zeroes in on the fact that the vast majority of trafficking and slavery victims are indeed children. This fundamental truth, says the film's director, Oscar® nominee Robert Bilheimer, raises profound questions about the very nature of our civilization. "What kind of society cannibalizes its own children?" Bilheimer asks. "Can we do these sorts of things on such a large scale and still call ourselves human in any meaningful sense of the term?"
Not My Life features dignified and inspiring testimony from survivors; depictions of trafficking, exploitation, and slavery in all parts of the world including forced labor in Africa; street begging and garbage picking in India; sexual trafficking in the United States and Southeast Asia; and various forms of child enslavement and abuse in both North and South America.
Source: notmylife.org
About the Film :: Not My Life :: A Film by Worldwide Documentaries, Inc. :: The Way The World Is
Not My Life is the first documentary film to depict the horrifying and dangerous practices of human trafficking and modern slavery on a global scale.
Filmed on five continents over a period of four years, Not My Life unflinchingly, but with enormous dignity and compassion, depicts the unspeakable practices of a multi-billion dollar global industry whose profits, as the film's narration says, "are built on the backs and in the beds of our planet's youth."
While acknowledging that trafficking and slavery are universal crimes, affecting millions of human beings all over the world, Not My Life zeroes in on the fact that the vast majority of trafficking and slavery victims are indeed children. This fundamental truth, says the film's director, Oscar® nominee Robert Bilheimer, raises profound questions about the very nature of our civilization. "What kind of society cannibalizes its own children?" Bilheimer asks. "Can we do these sorts of things on such a large scale and still call ourselves human in any meaningful sense of the term?"
Not My Life features dignified and inspiring testimony from survivors; depictions of trafficking, exploitation, and slavery in all parts of the world including forced labor in Africa; street begging and garbage picking in India; sexual trafficking in the United States and Southeast Asia; and various forms of child enslavement and abuse in both North and South America.
Source: notmylife.org
About the Film :: Not My Life :: A Film by Worldwide Documentaries, Inc. :: The Way The World Is
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
COMBATING THE RESTAVEK SYSTEM
Check out Brian's comments on combating the restavek system (7/19/10) and the documentary he recommended.
Brian has left a new comment on your post "Resuming the Fight Against Child Slavery in Haiti ...":
One of the biggest ways to combat the issue of Restaveks and child slavery is through educating people. The majority of Americans know nothing about this issue. Here is a documentary seen on Foreign Exchange that helps shed light on the issue http://pulitzercenter.org/video/restaveks-child-slaves-haiti
TRAFFICKING MONITOR: Thank you, Brian.
Check out Brian's comments on combating the restavek system (7/19/10) and the documentary he recommended.
Brian has left a new comment on your post "Resuming the Fight Against Child Slavery in Haiti ...":
One of the biggest ways to combat the issue of Restaveks and child slavery is through educating people. The majority of Americans know nothing about this issue. Here is a documentary seen on Foreign Exchange that helps shed light on the issue http://pulitzercenter.org/video/restaveks-child-slaves-haiti
Friday, January 29, 2010
Students learn ways to combat modern-day slavery | The Pitt News
Image by /Sizemore/ via Flickr
published: Mon, 25 Jan, 2010
Students discovered a new meaning for the acronym DDR last night: Disarmament. Demobilization. Rehabilitation.
Eric Reidy, president of 1 Life 1 World 1 Peace, spoke about modern-day slavery to about 45 people gathered in the William Pitt Union Assembly Room last night.
He used the film “Blood Diamond,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio as diamond smuggler Danny Archer, to highlight the discrepancies between pop culture’s perceptions of child slavery and child soldiers and what actually occurs.
The film follows Archer as he helps a father, Solomon Vandy, played by actor Djimon Hounsou, search for his son, who has been taken by militia. Near the end of the film, Archer and Vandy find Vandy’s son, who tries to shoot them. Vandy tries to remind his son that he’s still a “good boy.” The boy surrenders and follows his father home.
Reidy said it’s rarely that simple in real life. To bring a child soldier home, he said, you must use disarmament, demobilization or rehabilitation.
The event was the first in a four-part series focusing on child soldiers as a form of modern-day slavery. The next event, another presentation, will be held at 7 p.m. Feb. 18 in the Assembly Room. The group does not yet have dates for the other two events. The third event will focus on human trafficking and the process needed to push forward with the modern abolitionist movement, while the fourth will be a simulation in the community to apply what was learned throughout the semester.
After deconstructing scenes from “Blood Diamond,” Reidy spoke about Hollywood’s portrayal of child soldiers, saying they might find one form of relief: the knowledge that their situation is being publicized.
Reidy capped the evening with a “break-out session.” 1 Life 1 World 1 Peace set up multiple tables with handouts chronicling the experiences of child soldiers from five different locations: Colombia, Staten Island, Rwanda, Uganda and Sri Lanka. Members of 1 Life 1 World 1 Peace handed out sheets listing different organizations that work with child soldiers and books and articles about the topic.
The group concluded with a video of Emmanuel Jal from the TEDGlobal Event 2009, in London. Jal is a former child soldier from Sudan, who joined the militia at the age of 8, after he saw his aunt get raped, his mom and sisters killed and his village burned down in front of his eyes. To help Sudan, “Stop sending UN aid, you’re only killing another generation,” Jal said. “Give us tools — tools to grow crops. Invest in education so we have strong institutions to create revolution.”
Reidy said the group chose to hold the series because it was looking for a new way to inspire people.
“Traditional activism used abstracts images,” such as those of starving or bloated children in Ethiopia, to make people feel guilty and thus get them to take up a cause, he said.
But 1 Life 1 World 1 Peace is trying to use what Reidy called a “new generation of activism.” This new activism uses the Internet to create a global sense of solidarity.
“Our goal is to humanize conflict” and replace guilt-driven activism, Reidy said.
Reidy and fellow sophomore Alex Lee launched the group in September 2008. Reidy said he was involved in humanitarian activities throughout high school, primarily with the organization Invisible Children. When Reidy came to Pitt, Invisible Children asked him to organize a screening of the documentary “Go,” which features Invisible Children’s Schools for Schools book drive.
The screening marked the beginning of 1 Life 1 World 1 Peace.
The pair decided to create their own student group because, “There’s a strong desire to get involved, and we wanted to create tangible ways to connect and act,” Reidy said.
The multimedia presentation can be found on the group’s website in the blog section at 1life1world1peace.org.
Students learn ways to combat modern-day slavery | The Pitt News
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