Modern-Day slavery News Archive

Khaleej Times Online – National Committee to Combat Human Trafficking
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2009/July/theuae_July339.xml&section=theuae&col=

Religious Form Network Against Human Trafficking
http://www.zenit.org/article-26159?l=english

Uganda: U.S. Envoy Warns On Human Trafficking
http://allafrica.com/stories/200906120273.html

Descendant of black icons is thankful
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2009/jun/14/ancestor_black_icons_thankful85997/

Lincoln’s remarkable tie to former slave
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/11/horton.lincoln.douglass/index.html

If This Isn’t Slavery, What Is?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/opinion/04kristof.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

Child ’slavery’ now being imported to U.S.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28415693/


He’s carrying on legacy of his forefathers
http://www.gazette.net/stories/10222008/burtnew204254_32470.shtml


Using the legacy of his forefathers to educate
http://www.gazette.net/stories/10222008/olnenew235228_32482.shtml

Great Grand’ of Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washingon visit Harambee Dinner Club
http://www.bmorenews.com/community/great-gran-of-frederick-douglass-and-booker-t-wash.shtml

Frederick Douglass Descendant Launches Youth Campaign to Fight Modern-Day Slavery
http://www.afro.com/tabid/456/itemid/1803/Frederick-Douglass-Descendant-Launches-Youth-Campa.aspx

Eight Days That Changed Our Lives
http://www.blackvoicenews.com/content/view/42509/3/

Nettie Washington Douglass lives up to famous ancestors
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/stories/2008/06/26/nettie_douglass_washington.html


Details emerge from sex ring crackdown
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5862358.html


China Says Abusive Child Labor Ring Is Exposed
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/world/asia/01china.html?_r=2&ref=world&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Oakland pimps prey on youth
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime/ci_8995639?nclick_check=1

Slavery’s staying power
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-skinner23mar23,0,7508011.story

Sex slaves, human trafficking … in America?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22083762/

NY Detective Accused of Prostituting 13-Year-Old Girl
http://video.wnbc.com/player/?id=212033

N.Y. millionaires guilty of ‘modern-day slavery’
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22297345/


Fight human trafficking
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/10/31/10163908.html

Child prostitutes available at $100 a night: the human cost of junta’s repression
http://www.guardian.co.uk/burma/story/0,,2201622,00.html


Court begins hearing in human trafficking case
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2007/October/
theuae_October751.xml&section=theuae&col

Human traffickers arranged fake weddings
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Human-traffickers-arranged-fake-weddings/2007/10/29/1193555559949.html

Renewed call for Malta to sign anti-trafficking convention
http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=59710

Houston major hub for human trafficking
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5251655.html


White House welcomes Frederick Douglass Family Foundation for Human Trafficking Roundtable
http://www.fdff.org/pr/index.htm

Kenneth B. Morris Cedar Hill Speech – September 15, 2007
http://www.fdff.org/kbm_9-15-07_speech.pdf

Anti-Slavery Family Honour Urged
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/7041407.stm

Portland Panhandlers Collecting For Slave Reparations
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5208240.html


Noose Found in Black Professor’s Office Adds to Racial Fear in U.S.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2634082.ece

Dred Scott Author Wanted to Legalize Slavery
http://www.news-journal.com/featr/content/features/stories/10102007_Kauffmann.html

Kids forced into domestic servitude in Haiti
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20293963/

City leader says London will mark the horrors of slavery wit Austin American Statesman
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/world/08/24/0824britainslavery.html

Study finds as many as 69 cases of human trafficking in Ky. Lexington Herald-Leader
http://article.wn.com/view/2007/08/24/Study_finds_as_many_as_69_cases_of_human_trafficking_in_Ky/

5,000 kids’ in UK sex trade
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007390249,00.html#haveYourSay

Rights Group Likens Bushmen Plight to Slavery Chosunilbo
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200708/200708230042.html

The International Slavery Museum: A legacy of resistance, and of horror (English)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/23/arts/museum.php

Refugees scared of return to Egypt (English)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10459334

Probe into Rwandan Darfur general (English)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6958432.stm



Wading into Traffic
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/james_harkin/2007/07/wading_into_traffic.html

Students Aboard Amistad Rough It To Learn About History
http://www.hdnews.net/Story/b0968_BC_APN_AmistadVoyage_08_05_0942

The world’s oldest customer
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/884019.html

Philly tour unearths secrets of slavery
http://theedge.bostonherald.com/travelNews/view.bg?articleid=1012091

Taney bust draws activists’ disgust
http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20070718/METRO/107180045/1004



Man gets death over slavery scam
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/07/18/10139989.html






Slavery museum may miss $10 million goal
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070713/METRO/107130070/1004

150th anniversary exhibit puts landmark case in context
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07194/799778-37.stm