^ Scroll to the bottom under the embedded video. Click the first video icon, titled "Obama's Anti-Human Trafficking Plan".
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Well in recent news, Obama calls out the truth in human trafficking and the estimated twenty million faces around the globe by responding to it as modern-slavery, in a firm speech on what can be done in response, which has the same concept Kevin Bales contests under "Three Things You Can Do to Stop Slavery".
"The President said the trafficking of people contributes to "the debasement of our common humanity," ''tears at our social fabric," endangers public health and fuels violence and organized crime. He listed victims ranging from workers who toil for little pay, are abused and barred from leaving their jobs, young boys who are turned into child soldiers and forced to kill, and impoverished girls who are sold into the sex trade."
The first step to Coda is to learn. After reading Kevin Bale's book and our text on Somaly Mam, something I could do to make a difference is relay this information on human trafficking, and lend somebody a copy of The Road to Lost Innocence. The
President touches upon the ways our educators, and law enforcement can cooperate to be better equipped to take action, and utilize technology as a way to aid, in correspondence to ways technology can exploit their victims. Obama highlights the importance in treating the victims as victims, not criminals, and rebuilding the the lives of men and women, not to mention child victims. He entails the need for support in anti-trafficking organization and causes that find new ways to care for victims, like the Anti-Slavery International. President Obama's focus and zero tolerance of these present issues in our boarders, and internationally make me very glad. :-)
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