Auren Kaplan the CEO of Girl Justice, a nonprofit crowd funding platform, writes:
“As America continues her inevitable march towards deeper degrees of independence and opportunity for all of her citizens, I am reminded constantly of the myriad challenges women face around the world. As the CEO of Girl Justice, a women’s empowerment charity, I am constantly reminded of the continuous struggle for women’s rights abroad and at home. And while no country is flawless in the context of empowering women, one country stood out as a consistent and significant abuser of women’s rights: China. Read More
By Siobhán McGrath and Fabiola Mieres
The Global Slavery Index uses questionable data and ignores global interdependence to frame modern slavery as an issue rooted in the Global South. It exculpates the Global North of its continuing role in extreme exploitation and perpetuates a politics of rescue. Read More
Tert.am informs:
A criminal case has been filed by the citizens of China (officially People’s Republic of China (PRC)) upon initial agreement, in RA Investigation Committee for the trafficking crime committed in Yerevan. This information is given by the RA Investigation Committee’s Public outreach department. Read More
On the 23th fo November The Chai Lai Orchid invited minority children from the surrounding area that are most at risk of child labor to enjoy a day to just be kids. Read More
On the 29th of November final phase of republican championship of “Student debate” took place in Ani Plaza Hotel in Yerevan. Debates were held in the frame of “Civic engagement – student debates” program.
The final debate was around the “Men are more vulnerable in trafficking arena” thesis. Read More
Nearly three in 10 convicted human traffickers worldwide are female, according to a U.N. report on Monday which found that women play a bigger role in trafficking than other major crimes such as murder or robbery. Read More
In 2010, just a few months short of the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Trafficking in Persons Protocol, Member States renewed their commitment to the fight against trafficking in persons by adopting the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons (contained in General Assembly resolution 64/293). Read More
Two months ago, I discovered that my grandmother, Ida, had been a verdingkind, or “contract child” in Switzerland in the 1890s.
A transcript from the archives in Teuffenthal, a small village south of Bern, the capital, confirmed that Ida, an orphan, had been contracted as an unpaid domestic servant to a woman in a neighboring village. Read More
On November 20th, the regular session of the RA National Assembly took place, during which according to the agenda, the amendment with regard the inclusion of “administrative offences” in the bill of “On identification of and support to persons subjected to trafficking in human beings and exploitation” and the amendment of the Law on the Status of Foreign Citizens has been discussed with the view of adopting both bills with the first reading.
The main reporter was the RA Police Deputy Head, Lieutenant General Hunan Poghosyan. Read More
Every year, the government of Uzbekistan forcibly mobilizes more than a million of its own citizens to pick cotton. Under international pressure, the authorities in Tashkent have recently moved away from forcing young children to pick cotton. But the system still depends on exporting cotton picked by adults who are essentially government slaves. Read More