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USAID Human Trafficking Symposium, Sept. 16, 2009 — Actress and UNICEF Ambassador Lucy Liu spoke out against human trafficking and lauded USAID efforts to increase awareness. YouTube Interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd9xkPyGaCo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Now the United States is not alone in this fight. Many governments have rallied around what we call the three P’s of fighting modern slavery: prevention, prosecution, and protection. And this report, which is being issued today, gives a clear and honest assessment of where all of us are making progress on our commitments and where we are either standing still or even sliding backwards. It takes a hard look at every government in the world, including our own. Because when I became Secretary of State, I said, “When we are going to be issuing reports on human trafficking, on human rights that talk about other countries, we’re also going to be examining what we’re doing,” because I think it’s important that we hold ourselves to the same standard as everyone else. – Hillary Clinton
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2012/06/193368.htm
Watch: http://bcove.me/5fox93y4
And I’m also pleased that this is a high priority for President Obama and the Obama Administration. It’s something that is not just political and not just a policy, but very personal and very deep. You might have seen over the weekend a long story about Mrs. Obama’s roots going back to the time of our own period of slavery and the family that nurtured her, which has roots in the fields and the houses of a time when Americans owned slaves.
So as we recommit ourselves to end modern slavery, we should take a moment to reflect on how far we have come, here in our country and around the world, but how much farther we still have to go to find a way to free those 27 million victims and to ensure that there are no longer any victims in the future. – Hillary Clinton
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- Message from U.S. Congressman Ted Poe (freeourcity.org)
- On the issue of human trafficking (paulalexanderwolf.wordpress.com)
- MTV Fighting Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery (socialworkhelper.com)
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Progress in our general humanity is neither automatic nor can it be escaped, however the road towards increasing justice is as old as Methuselah and requires struggle and suffering, besides the tiredness efforts and passionate concern of dedicated people who feel compassion, in which all ethics must take root. Compassion only can meet its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living people at the disadvantaged level of the human spectrum and therefore the fight against human trafficking is one of the corner stones of respecting human rights, – and international law enforcement on this issue should be at the corner of our international efforts as it is both right and a reflection of human justice.
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Abolishing of human trafficking is at the heart of global civilisation as it will decide our approach on other issues affecting human rights, – both here and around the world!
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Paul Wolf
Greetings
With humility, I have pleasure in bringing to your attention my new novel REINCARNATED COMMODITY – “Phenomenon that refuses to die”; one of a series of three novels by Raymond Ladebo, published on Amazon eBook.com. This is an advocacy styled fictional story contributing to the awareness raising efforts to eradicate Human Trafficking, Modern-day Slavery consciously presented from an African perspective. To quote President Obama, “it is barbaric, it is evil and it has no place in civilized world”.
“IVIE, Abiku-spirit child, only child of her middle-aged mother, was smart and graduated from secondary school before fifteen. She was sponsored to travel abroad for further education by her paternal Auntie Esomo who’d arranged with her wealthy daughter, Blessing, to assist her little cousin to Italy. The relentless attempts by a ruthless Madam to coerce the innocent teenager into prostitution cartel lead to unexpected consequences…..”
The scarred girl’s trials and tribulations propelled her from Italy to Britain, Egypt, and the United States of America where she was fortunate to find freedom
It is available on Amazon eBooks.com- http://www.amazon.com/REINCARNATED-COMMODITY-ebook/dp/B007BIODHK/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1334753379&sr=1-1 OR
REINCARNATED COMMODITY
You may also borrow the eBook title to read from Kindles ownners’ library on Amazon.com/.co.uk,etc
It is hoped you’ll read this fascinating story and recommend to your friends and contacts in particular among educational institutions and the Non Governmental Organizations involved in the anti-slavery organizations, and the Child Rights International Network, UNICEF; UNFPA; UNIFEM, plus other UN Humanitarian Agencies.
With gratitude and our best regards
Raymond Ladebo