I developed great sadness while making the video about the Christian Solidarity International/Talkers Magazine Trip to Southern Sudan video, and have written an extended post about it on my personal website.
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Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, compares the economic effects of immigration to growth in the south due to slavery. Krikorian says that the expansion of slavery improved the quality of life for native born Americans in the south, and parallels can be drawn to current immigration issues. (0:41)
U.S Ambassador Mark Lagon said today that the United States should not lecture other countries on human trafficking and how things should be done to end it. Lagon discusses human trafficking reports that the United States has done annually as well as the annual international trafficking and persons report, which give numbers and an estimate on how each country is doing to combat human trafficking. (0:47)
Ambassador Mark P. Lagon, director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons at the U.S State Department discusses the child soldier abuses in the 30 odd countries, today. All nations must work together to remove all of these child soldiers from the wars and reintegrate these children into society.(1:07)
At a Congressional Human Rights Caucus Briefing today, Ambassador Mark Lagon, director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons at the U.S. State Department, discussed human trafficking from conflict zones in sub-Saharan Africa. UNICEF estimates that conscription of child soldiers affects more than 300,000 children under the age of 18 in more than 30 armed conflicts worldwide.
In December 2007, the United Nations noted that evidence suggests refugee and internally displace person (IDP) camps are often prime recruiting grounds for child soldiers because of the concentration of vulnerable children. Lagon said that human trafficking is modern day slavery. (more…)
One recently freed South Darfur slave boy helps another open his sack of hope – these sacks will provide for the former slaves for months
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Ellen Ratner tells the pain of a freed slave’s life, and the hope of returning to her family. (1:15)
Ellen Ratner describes the freeing of slaves on the border of Darfur. Some slaves are simply killed rather than sold, and even those that are freed often do not understand their freedom, not having known any other life. (1:52)
Jack Rice speaks of the horrors facing a twenty year old slave girl living in Sudan after speaking with a freed slave. (1:29)
Dan Patterson reports live in the sweltering heat of Sudan. Minutes after witnessing hundreds of slaves being freed, Patterson describes a world where people have lived in captivity for years, where freedom is “purchased”, and where murder and torture is a part of every day life. (2:03)
