by Beth | Jun 10, 2006 | Justice and Peace
BERLIN, JUNE 10, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Many are muting their cheers for the World Cup competition just getting under way in Germany. In the months leading up to the event, protests grew over plans to “import” large numbers of women to serve as prostitutes for...
by Beth | Jul 1, 2005 | Justice and Peace
Asia Foundation Launches New Multi-Lingual Web Portal dealing with issues related to the fact that every year thousands of people, primarily women and children, are trafficked within and across borders and forced to work in the sex industry, in sweat shops, and in...
by Beth | Jun 22, 2004 | Justice and Peace
An issue Vincent would surely be concerned with today. – “Human trafficking is defined as the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services through the use of force, fraud, or coercion, for the purpose of...
by Beth | Aug 25, 2003 | Justice and Peace
Given Vincent’s concern for those in slavery the current Issue of National Geographic (August 2003) has a powerful photographic essay . There are more slaves today (27 million) than were seized from Africa in four centuries of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The...
by Beth | Apr 23, 2002 | Justice and Peace
ROME, APRIL 22, 2002 (Zenit.org).- Just weeks after completing a daring slave redemption mission, Christian Solidarity International (CSI) returned to Sudan on April 6 for a follow-up trip. During this trip, CSI’s network of Arab retrievers, who risk their lives...