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Help end modern day slavery

Today is Human Trafficking Awareness Day…
It’s also the 146th anniversary of the day our 13th Amendment was introduced to Congress — which set out to abolish slavery in the United States.
Yet today — slavery still exists — in so many forms.
Sex trade, immigrant farmers working in Florida, children mining for coltan, chocolate and coffee farmers [...]

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Obama administration looks at human trafficking

Hillary Clinton wrote an op-ed piece in the Washington Post today regarding human trafficking and the Trafficking in Persons Report 2009, which was released by the US Dept of State last week ::
Twenty-year-old Oxana Rantchev left her home in Russia in 2001 for what she believed was a job as a translator in Cyprus. A [...]

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JustOneDallas :: May 16th :: Life in Deep Ellum

JustOneDallas – May 16th – Life in Deep Ellum
Can’t wait!

JustOne is a non profit organization that was formed to stimulate greater global awareness about extreme poverty, and to provoke compassionate ideas and intelligent giving in order to provide sustainable relief. We are a collective voice for the victims of social injustice––the one(s) living in geographical [...]

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