Media Voices For Children, The Global Community For Children's Rights, presents a large library of original content videos focusing on the plight of children's rights, in such topics as trafficing, forced labor, education, poverty and hunger.

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Slavery In History:  Read this slavery timeline, from Mesopotamia to our present day, to see how the anti-slavery movement evolved through the ages.

Slavery Timeline

Hawaii gov signs domestic workers bill:  Gov. Neil Abercrombie signed a domestic workers bill of rights Monday, making Hawaii the second U.S. state to give nannies, housekeepers and others protections on wages and other labor issues. See the article here

National Human Trafficking Resource Center:   Call 1-888-373-7888 or text BeFree (233733). The National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC) is a national, toll-free hotline, available to answer calls and texts from anywhere in the country, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, every day of the year.

Do the products you buy support slavery and labor abuses?  Learn how your favorite brands relate to trafficking and other labor abuses. Free2Work provides consumers with information on forced and child labor for the brands and products they love.  Access the system here

Not For Sale is at the forefront of creating innovative, replicable, and sustainable solutions to fight modern-day slavery. Not For Sale believes that trafficking can be stopped up.  Read about their international projects.

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Recent international news posts from the Not For Sale campaign to support modern solutions to modern-day slavery.

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TeachUNICEF is a portfolio of global education teacher resources designed and collected by the U.S. Fund for UNICEF’s Education Department for teachers, afterschool instructors, and parents. The units, lesson plans, stories, videos and multimedia cover topics ranging from the Millennium Development Goals to poverty and water and sanitation.

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U.S. Senator Jeff Chiesa (R-NJ) used his first speech on the Senate floor to shine the light on the issue of human trafficking, what he deems, “modern-day slavery".   See the full speech and other articles of interest on opportunity for women worldwide. 

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Local woman helps fight human trafficking:  Sarah Symons, 48, and her husband, John Berger, 46, founded and operate Made By Survivors, a nonprofit group that offers survivors of trafficking the education and training to restart and improve their lives.

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Modern-day slavery: a global forum.  Announcing the launch of a project on modern-day slavery, investigating root causes and potential solutions.  Over the next twelve months, the Guardian, in partnership with Humanity United, a US-based foundation dedicated to building peace and advancing freedom, will shine a light on the phenomenon of modern-day slavery.

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Hawaii Gov. Abercrombie Signs Human Trafficking Bills:  three new bills combating human trafficking in Hawaii and increasing services for victims.

The most important of these measures is SB 192, which mints the offense of solicitation of a minor (a person under the age of eighteen) for prostitution, graded as a class C felony that carries a minimum $2,000 fine, while extending the civil statute of limitations for coerced prostitution to six years, expanding asset forfeiture laws to cover an increased range of solicitation offenses, and adding solicitation of a minor to the state's list of crimes subject to the sex offender registry.

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The Obama Administration’s Record on Human Trafficking Issues:  This White House Forum to Combat Human Trafficking brings together advocates, service providers, researchers and academics, business leaders, faith leaders, leaders in the technology community, law enforcement, and local, state and federal government leaders to discuss strategies for countering trafficking in persons.

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As I looked around the South Auditorium in the Old Executive Office Building during the White House's Forum to Combat Human Trafficking, I felt a surge of hope in a field that could use so much more. Members of the Obama administration joined with many of the nation's leading abolitionists to take stock of the nation's effort to end the scourge of human trafficking and share information to bolster the fight yet ahead of us.

Too often, those of us who fight against human slavery beat our heads against the walls of misinformation and prejudice.

No, we have to explain, trafficking victims aren't just those vulnerable people who are smuggled in from other countries so their labor and bodies can be exploited -- 80 percent of sex trafficking victims are U.S. citizens, mostly homeless, abused, and impoverished young people who see no other options.

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Human Trafficking Training.  Through Shared Hope International's offering of various human trafficking training programs, the goal is to increase the identification of those victimized and vulnerable to trafficking and improve the response of service providers and justice systems.  See the site here

National Human Trafficking Resource Center:  Call 1-888-373-7888 or text BeFree (233733). The National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC) is a national, toll-free hotline, available to answer calls and texts from anywhere in the country, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, every day of the year.  View the full information here

Recognizing the Signs -  Is someone you know being trafficked? Is human trafficking happening in your community? Is the situation you may have encountered actually human trafficking?  The following is a list of potential red flags and indicators of human trafficking to help you recognize the signs.  Read the full article here