CNN: Child Miners Face Death for Tech

Another good CNN article to check out - Child Miners Face Death for Tech:

thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/26/child-miners-face-death-for-tech

CNN: Black E-Economy Hiding Traffickers' Profits

Check out the CNN article Black E-Economy Hiding Traffickers' Profits:

thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/26/black-e-economy-hiding-traffickers-profits

You are more beautiful than you think

For more information & videos, go to dove.com/realbeautysketches

CNN: Vulnerable Targeted by Traffickers

 

www.cnn.com/2013/06/19/opinion/fedotov-human-trafficking/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn

CNN: Fighting Sex Trafficking in the U.S.

 

thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com

CNN: Blurred Clue to Saving Girl

 

thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com

ALWAYS REMEMBER

ALWAYS REMEMBER,
when God made you He did so with a purpose and a plan.
He saw all your days before you lived one of them
and placed over you the covering of His protective love.
He has allowed nothing to come into your life
that has not first been screened through that love.

He calls you by name.
You are His beloved child. . .the apple of His eye. . .the delight of His heart.

His hand has remained upon you to this very day.
He will be with you as He has always been -
in goodness, in kindness, in faithfulness, and in love.

~Roy Lessin

No Child Should Ever Be For Sale

Check out more about World Vision's No Child For Sale campaign at nochildforsale.ca and consider signing the petition to the Canadian government.

Be the Difference: Jonathan Huang

www.freedom-summit.org/2013

be aware

be disturbed

be educated

be active

be committed

be a fighter

be a leader

be a visionary

be a defender

be an advocate

be a missionary

be a believer

be a protector

be a hero

be an abolitionish

be the difference

Survivor Stories

Last week I blogged about a CNN article entitled Victim's Plea:  Change New York Law, Charge the Traffickers.  There was a link to a website called Equality Now - Survivor Stories.  I dare you to clink on the link and hear the stories first hand:

www.equalitynow.org/survivorstories/ruth_janelle_lowyal_veronica

Permitting Prostitution

With the spotlight back on Canada's prostitution laws, please check out this clip from ListenUp TV (now Context with Lorna Dueck) or click on the link to view the entire show.

 www.contextwithlornadueck.com/episodes/legalized-prostitution-in-canada

IJM: 273 People Rescued from Brick Kilns

IJM (International Justice Mission) published an article last week:  273 people rescued from brick kilns.  Read the remarkable story (which happened June 10 and was published June 11) of their second-largest rescue operation.

www.ijm.ca/news/News/548

Taught to Be Worthless

Gina Reiss-Wilchins is the executive director of Somaly Mam Foundation.  Check out her article Taught to Be Worthless:

www.huffingtonpost.com/gina-reisswilchins/taught-to-be-worthless_b_3398612.html

Youth Day ~ South Africa

Today's post is for all my South African friends celebrating Youth Day and remembering the Soweto Uprising of June 16, 1976.  It is also a time to remember and pray for Nelson Mandela - an exemplary visionary and an extraordinary human being.  He wrote: "As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison."  Profound words to lead a broken country out of apartheid and words that can still inspire us today.

www.cnn.com/2013/06/14/opinion/bilchik-nelson-mandela/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn

CNN: Striking Out to Combat Slavery

 

thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com

Real Equality for Women Does Not Promote Prostituti​on and Sexual Exploitati​on

I just received this email in my inbox:

STATEMENT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

June 14, 2013

Real Equality for Women Does Not Promote Prostitution and Sexual Exploitation

Ottawa, ON - Today the Supreme Court of Canada will hear from fourteen interveners as it considers a landmark case on the laws surrounding prostitution. It is notable then, that in Attorney General of Canada, et al. v. Terri Jean Bedford, et al., many of the interveners are women's advocacy organizations that are directly opposed to the legalization of prostitution.

The Women's Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution represents seven organizations that have found that women's equality has decreased when prostitution is legalized. For example, the Native Women's Association of Canada has emphasized that "It is an issue for all women who support equality. As long as Aboriginal women and girls are bought and sold in prostitution, Aboriginal women will never have equality."

Similarly, the Government of Canada decided to appeal this case to the Supreme Court of Canada in 2012, as we view prostitution as inherently harmful to vulnerable persons, especially women and girls from First Nations communities. Prostitution victimizes and exploits women and girls and forces those who have few choices into a world of fewer choices.

There is also a critical link between prostitution and human trafficking that is too often ignored by those calling for legalization. In 2003, the Scottish Parliament commissioned the University of London to conduct a 'comprehensive analysis of outcomes of prostitution policies in other countries.' The study found that the legalization and regulation of prostitution led to a dramatic increase in the involvement of organized crime in the sex industry, in child prostitution, in the number of foreign women trafficked into the region, and a general increase in violence against women.

In Canada, studies by the RCMP, House of Commons Status of Women Committee, UBC Professor Benjamin Perrin, and the Criminal Intelligence Service Canada (CISC) have shown that Canadian born women and youth are vulnerable to sex slavery. In particular, the 2008 CISC study found that organized crime syndicates in Canada recruit Canadian born women between the ages of 12-25 years to traffic inter- and intra-provincially for the purposes of forced prostitution. The 2010 RCMP study, Hidden Abuse-Hidden Crime, revealed a number of groups of youth in Canada to be vulnerable to sex trafficking, especially youth from First Nations communities.

As such, I am unapologetically for the abolition of prostitution, a system that dehumanizes and degrades humans and reduces them to a commodity to be bought and sold. This is the reality we face in Canada and the motivation for the Canadian government's efforts to combat sexual exploitation and sex trafficking.

The case being made by Bedford et al. is not about making the streets safer for prostitutes or securing equality for women. It is about one thing: making pimps and human traffickers richer.

True equality for women will never come from a legal system that encourages the prostitution and sale of women and vulnerable populations. Rather, Canada should continue to criminalize the pimps, traffickers and real root of prostitution: the clients.

Joy Smith, MP
Kildonan - St. Paul

Media Contact: Joel Oosterman
Office of Joy Smith, MP
Phone: 613-992-7148
Cell: 613-220-6795
Email: joy.smith.a2@parl.gc.ca

CNN: Victim's Plea

Click on the link to the CNN article Victim's Plea:  Change New York Law, Charge the Traffickers:

thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/11/victims-plea-change-new-york-law-charge-the-traffickers

A California Climber Takes Up the Trafficking Fight

My friend Teresa comes through for me again. . .check out this inspiring article:

www.christianitytoday.com/thisisourcity/silicon-valley/california-climber-takes-up-trafficking-fight.html?start=1

Smith Leads Delegation

MP, Joy Smith continues to fight the war against human trafficking:

www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/Smith-leads-delegation-to-combat-human-trafficking-210575841.html

Mark ~ Invisible People

Powerful interview. . .important words:

invisiblepeople.tv