Every Saturday I go to a home where girls find freedom and safety from the brothels of GB road. The mission of the house is within it’s name, “Suraksha”. Protection. Protection from the dangerous hands and minds of the opressors that thrive in a brothel. Their mothers, victims of this oppression,…
Sex slave at age 11, little girl bravely tells her horror tale to save others
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It’s been seven months since an 11-year-old vanished from her Bronx home for five days - but horrific details of how she was turned into a sex slave are just emerging.
Lured from home by a sexual predator, the fifth-grader was pimped out to a series of men in a lower East Side flat.
“One man gave me $700, another gave me $1,000 and another gave me $500,” the girl told the Daily News, which is withholding her name….
Today in my Intro to Social Work class we actually talked about the Triangle factory fire, and when I checked my e-mail I got this from Change.org http://www.change.org/petitions/jc-penney-dont-break-your-promise-to-families-of-workers-who-died-making-your-clothes?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&alert_id=rQanerDeCt_lGUewoJxwe so i went to Google to find out more information about it. Which is when I came across the link and video from democracynow.org. I feel sick.
Nujood Ali, Yemen
Photograph by Stephanie Sinclair, National Geographic
Nujood Ali was ten when she fled her abusive, much older husband and took a taxi to the courthouse in Sanaa, Yemen. The girl’s courageous act—and the landmark legal battle that ensued—turned her into an international heroine for women’s rights. Now divorced, she is back home with her family and attending school again.
(via failureinthisworld)
yeah Polaris!
and just incase you were wondering, YES I do have the trafficking hotline programed in my phone…and I don’t really want to ever have to use it, but I kind of do at the same time if it means helping bust some sucker
this is just low
The slow-motion disaster of the food crisis in the Horn of Africa is truly horrifying. Last Wednesday the United Nations declared a famine in two large regions of Somalia; 3.7 million people, nearly half the country’s population, are affected. The crisis is larger than just Somalia. Right now the devastating drought in the region means that more than 11 million people need food aid across Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia.
You can help by making a contribution through the Tumblr Dashboard or on the Somalia tag page, and we’ll match your support up to $10,000. Proceeds will go to the United Nations World Food Programme.
For the first time, extraordinary aerial footage of one of the world’s last uncontacted tribes has been released.
(Source: blinkanditsover, via aithnycdeleon)
My eyes are full of tears, my heart is full of joy and I am almost at a loss for words as I write this because I know this is an answer to so many prayers for so many years, not of my own necessarily but of those I know from this place.
Argentina’s government is banning prostitution ads in newspapers and other mass media as of Friday, saying it is combatting violence against women. Read the whole article at this link http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=14073357
This is a step towards fighting prostitution,sex trafficking and other forms of exploitation of women.
Why is this so important to me? Well 3 years ago I spent 2 months in Argentina and was completely horrified and heart broken at the blatant ads for prostitution and the pornography sold right on the street newspaper stands. It was everywhere. You literally had to look at the ground as you walked to not see any of it and even then you would see flyers lying on the ground. I met many people who were fighting against it and who spent so many hours praying for the end and for justice for victims. Whether you reading this believe in God and prayer or not, the fact remains this is a step in the right direction. I am so overjoyed I want to dance!
