End Slavery Now | End Slavery Now (ESN) is a Washington, DC-based nonprofit working to end modern slavery by developing a comprehensive platform for growing and advancing the anti-slavery movement.

What We Do End Slavery Now (ESN) is a Washington, DC-based nonprofit working to end modern slavery by developing a comprehensive platform for growing and advancing the anti-slavery movement. ESN’s tools integrate resources to allow members of the movement to efficiently coordinate their respective efforts to combat slavery, and allow information to be shared with,…

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Women under Siege | Syrian-American tells UN of cultural reasons why rape in Syria may be underreported

By Women Under Siege — July 30, 2012
Safa Sankari, a member of our Syria team, spoke at the UN on July 18 as part of a presentation of our first findings of a data analysis of our crowdmap of sexualized violence in Syria. Sankari, who is Syrian-American, is the co-founder and president of the Syrian American Medical Society’s Michigan Chapter Foundation, a nonprofit organization that helps in the humanitarian and medical needs of Syrians. WMC’s Women Under Siege Director Lauren Wolfe also spoke. You can read her testimony here.

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End trafficking | Believe in ZERO Exploited Children

Believe in ZERO Exploited Children Worldwide, 5.5 million children are victims of forced labor and child trafficking. They have been bought and sold, forced into prostitution, or made to work at grueling, dangerous jobs with little or no pay. Their childhoods are being stolen. Thousands of these children live right here in the United States. UNICEF…

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Women's Refugee Commission | There are currently more than 42 million refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) worldwide who have been displaced by conflict

The Women’s Refugee Commission is extremely concerned about the current crises in the following hotspots:
Syria
Horrific violence persisting for the past two years has created a desperate humanitarian situation in Syria. Since early March, UNHCR has reported that the number of registered refugees or those being assisted as such has surpassed the one million mark. While it is impossible to obtain accurate numbers of internally displaced people (still in Syria) at this time, the UN estimates they are nearing 3.6 million.

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News on Modern Day Slavery | I believe that slavery/human trafficking/exploitation (whatever word you use) is one of the greatest tragedies against human rights that this world has ever seen.

  Click on image for website @Apollo Solaris I AM God’s Divine LOVE in Action I AM God’s Divine WILL and POWER in Action. I AM God’s Divine WISDOM and INTELLIGENCE in ACTION. and I intend to bring PEACE, Love and Light to BALANCE the powers in the world – NOW! I AM APOLLO SOLARIS…

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