One of my favorite organizations, Polaris Project , does incredible advocacy work to prevent trafficking and also does amazing hands-on work rescuing and rehabilitating women who are victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation. They have asked for people to donate clothes to help get their clients back on their feet. These clothes can be anything from...
Category Archives: Slavery
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Advocate to Combat Domestic Sex Trafficking
Human trafficking is one of the most horrific human rights issues faced by our world today. The number of people bought and sold in worldwide order to be exploited is estimated to be around 2 million, and nearly half of those are minors (ILO, 2008).The majority of victims are are female and are trafficked in...
Advocate to End Slavery in the DRC
It strikes me as a strange juxtaposition to sit here and use my laptop (with my cellphone sitting in front of me) to write about what an injustice it is that people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) being enslaved to make my technology possible.
I would explain it, but an amazing little organization called Emote360...
Be an Advocate for Children Enslaved on Cocoa Farms
Since I first posted about the issue of child slavery on cocoa farms (and promised not to eat any chocolate that was not fair trade), my eyes have truly been opened to the incredible scope of this issue and the blatant disregard for basic human rights shown by the major chocolate producers around the world.
Here’s...
National Human Trafficking Awareness Day
Monday was National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Therefore, I’m going to take this opportunity to make those of you who are unaware of this issue…more aware! (I would have posted this then, but Gary and I have travelled to South Africa and internet access is currently fairly limited…so forgive my lateness!)
The first step in advocacy...
International Human Rights Day
Today is International Human Rights day. In honor of this day, we are gonna do some advocacy. Advocacy means “speaking or writing in support or defense of a person, cause, etc.” or “pleading for or on behalf of another”. In a nutshell, it is becoming a voice for the voiceless.
I found several opportunities for advocacy...
Buying Free Trade Certified: Real Life Inspiration
I know that sometimes the scope of the human rights issues in the world can be overwhelming and it begins to feel like everything you do just makes tiny little dents. BUT, the perspective you have to keep is that these things will change one dent at a time. As a wife and mom with...