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A Lebanese supporter of slained prime minister Rafiq Hariri drags her maid with her to carry the Lebanese flag.
To state that there is abuse of maids and migrant workers in the Middle East in an understatement. What takes place in the region is...
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The Christian Copts in Egypt predate Muslims in that country, and yet they are treated so abysmally. Of course that’s nothing unexpected, since minority religions...
made popular Sep 20 2010
Thousands of foreign domestic workers are living as slaves in Britain, being abused sexually, physically and psychologically by employers, according to an investigation...
made popular Aug 30 2010
The horrifying massacre of 72 Central and South American immigrants by the hands of Zetas shocked the world. Preliminary investigations, based on testimony by the sole...
made popular Aug 28 2010
Shane McClellan was walking home around 2 a.m. in West Seattle on the night of May 25 when two men asked him for a light. When he approached them, the 16-year-old was...
made popular Jun 18 2010
Well the joke is that you cannot cover your face….yet you have to cover your base…what say…????
Laugh or not to laugh….that is the Question…
And very...
made popular May 6 2010
A Kenyan woman is accusing her Saudi employer of throwing her out of a third floor window, breaking her legs and hands. Another maid, just rescued by relatives, said...
made popular Jan 12 2010
As many as 225,000 children in Haiti live and work as unpaid domestic servants, the first study to closely examine the issue concluded.
The existence of these...
made popular Dec 24 2009
Why we must be ashamed to be Indians.
I attended a gathering in Washington DC a few months ago, the occasion being the celebration of the 145th anniversary of the...
made popular Sep 29 2009
More than one million people, the majority of them women and children, are smuggled across international borders to work in near slavery every year, the US state...
made popular Jul 31 2009
The Brazilian Public Defense has released a new listing of employers involved in slave work in Brazil. According to the Labor Ministry (MET), the “dirty...
made popular Jul 24 2009
If you want to buy matrimonial peace just do whatever your wife says. This is not a piece of advice from a marriage counsellor, rather it is from the Supreme Court.
A...
made popular May 20 2009
There exist many kinds of freedom that is because like many other terms, freedom is an ambiguous word which means it can and often is defined by each of us as we so...
made popular Apr 27 2009
Alemintu Girma Hailu, 19-year-old Ethiopian woman, who came to work as a Domestic worker for a family in UAE, fell ill after a few days of her arrival due to heat...
made popular Nov 11 2008
Slavery exists even today; i know that that sounds like an inflammatory statement but it is true. It is just not talked about in any kind of real, life changing way. ...
made popular Oct 21 2008
I’d noticed a UK Guardian journalist, Mr. Ghaith Abdul-Ahad’s publications for his writing style, informative, seemingly not pressing readers into a particular...
made popular Dec 15 2008
Thanks to Hollywood, many people still believe that the ancient Egyptians utilized vast armies of slaves to build the pyramids.
made popular Oct 12 2008
My last post was about China and so I can keep the Chinese “internet police” in a job, today’s post is also about China and its creation of a new slave empire....
made popular Oct 10 2008
If you would know a bit about slavery or slaves, you would be well aware that slaves have got nothing of their own. They do not possess the right to feel, express or...
made popular Aug 6 2008
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Lahore: Police on Saturday, Aug 02, in Lahore, Pakistan, raided a home and freed two sisters Nighat, 37, and Riffat, 25, who were kept in solitary confinement for 15...
made popular Aug 4 2008
Chocolate, that heavenly product, is the central theme of every moment of our lives that require a celebration or a pick-me-up. Drunk or eaten, chocolate gives a...
made popular Jul 26 2008
Last night I sat glued to my TV watching a BBC news special report. The report was on child slavery and prostitution. Child prostitution and slavery is a worldwide...
made popular Jun 16 2008
A little less than 150 years ago, Blacks in large parts of America were just slave. They had no rights. No voices. They were mere properties of White slave...
made popular Jun 9 2008
Is the American Democratic Party racist? If it was, and it actually was, then how do we know that it isn’t anymore? The hard questions must necessarily be...
made popular Apr 12 2008
With $50 and a plane ticket to Haiti, one can buy a slave. That is one of the findings of Benjamin Skinner while researching his book, “A Crime So Monstrous:...
made popular Mar 24 2008
Slavery is a word that immediately invokes very specific images in our minds. When it is mentioned we tend to think of people, almost always black people; abused, bound...
made popular Jun 16 2007
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Representatives of the Romanian Gypsy community stand around the statue of Mihail Kogalniceanu, Romania’s Premier in 1856, in Bucharest Romania, Friday Feb. 20 2009. Romania’s Gypsy community and activists celebrated 153 years since they were freed...
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