On April 8, 2014 ATEST and The Child Labor Coalition convened a congressional briefing on combating exploitative child labor. The briefing featured a remarks by long-time champion, Senator Tom Harkin and James Kofi Annan, a child trafficking survivor and award-winning advocate. A panel...
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Raising Awareness About Child Sex Trafficking in Westchester
By Stacie M. Waldman Published on April 8, 2014 in Scarsdale10583 On April 2nd, State Assemblywoman Amy Paulin, Sarah Porter from a group called End Child Prostitution And Trafficking (ECPAT) and Stuart Perrin, author of "Little Sisters" and founder of a safe house in Nepal sat...
The Ugly Truth Behind Guatemala’s Fast-Growing, Super-Efficient Palm Oil Industry
By Roberto A. Ferdman Published on April 3, 2014 in Quartz Guatemala is among the world’s most prolific palm-oil-producing countries, but it also appears to be one of the cruelest. A new report (pdf) released by the international labor watchdog Verité details the labor and...
Tackling Slavery with the International Justice Mission
By Jacqueline Justice Published on March 27, 2014 in The Cavalier Daily Student group tries to bring human rights awareness to Grounds via film screening How are we supposed to react to the realization of an irrefutable injustice, one which is difficult to recognize,...
Maloney’s Human Trafficking Fraud Enforcement Act
Published on March 26, 2014 in the Queens Gazette On March 22, Congressmember Carolyn B. Maloney and several advocates were joined outside the federal courthouse in Manhattan by Shandra Woworuntu, a courageous and inspiring survivor of sex trafficking, who told her story in...
Domestic Help Files Lawsuit Against Bangla New York Consul General
Published on March 25, 2014 in the India TV News New York: Bangladesh Consul General in New York is facing charges of abusing his domestic help, just months after Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade’s domestic help filed a lawsuit against her for similar reasons. The worker...
Letter of Support for Senate “Strengthening Child Welfare Response to Trafficking of 2013”
Recent reports have shown that the majority of identified child trafficking victims have had contact, often multiple times, with the child welfare system. S.1823 is a critical piece of legislation needed to ensure that child victims of sex trafficking and labor trafficking in the United...
ECPAT Working to Protect Sexually-Exploited Children in Senegal
Published on March 24, 2014 in eTurbo News There are few accurate and timely information relating to the sexual exploitation of children in Senegal. Yet, the media and local organizations working in the field of child protection report growth of the phenomenon of sex tourism...
Why Won’t Some Supermarket Chains Pay 1 Cent per Pound to Tomato Pickers?
By Steve Holt Published on March 21, 2014 in TakePart The Coalition of Immokalee Workers has intensified its pressure on Publix to join it in helping farmworkers. In January, the world's biggest company entered into a landmark collaboration with Florida tomato farmworkers to...
Lexington Woman’s Journey for Justice to Cambodia
By Jerrika Insco Published on March 20, 2014 in WKYT