Showing posts with label slavery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label slavery. Show all posts

Saturday, March 28, 2015

Magdalene House and Thistle Farms: Getting women off the streets

The Rev. Becca Stevens founded Magdalene House and Thistle Farms as part of her work with the women on the streets of Nashville, started in 2001. Love heals!

Here's a larger overview of the program:
Thistle Farms: A Love Story

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Human sex trafficking in Oklahoma

In our country, the young girls and women forced onto the streets are criminalized and repeatedly arrested, while their customers and pimps, sometimes members of their own families, face no consequences. An overview of Sex Trafficking in Oklahoma City.

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Selling the Girl Next Door: Child Sex Trafficking

A CNN special report. St. Louis is a major area for sex trafficking, given the number of major interstates that converge in our area.

Monday, March 9, 2015

Prayer of the Refugee: Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone

The effects of the civil war in Sierra Leone, set to the music of Rise Against's "Prayer of the Refugee."

The War in Sierra Leone and its Impact of Girls

Across the world, children are forced into slavery as soldiers in conflicts.

Girl Soldiers in Sierra Leone.

Because I am  girl in Sierra Leone: outlining the effects of the war in Sierra Leone on young girls: