Not for the squeamish

This is an undercover report by a journalist who posed as a prostitute to expose the trafficking Mafia in Nigeria. She was lucky to get out alive. A jaw-dropping story.

http://www.zammagazine.com/chronicle-5/51-the-next-level

YES in my backyard!

Last week, we performed a dramatic reading of selected scenes from The Walk play for the National Forum on Human Trafficking, held in Ottawa. The Walk highlights trafficking as a global phenomenon. And the posts on this blog tend to point to the horrors going on "over there." But this article from today's Ottawa Citizen exposes a harsh reality in our own community.

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Human+trafficking+Ottawa+least+women+used+slaves+research+suggests/9465177/story.html

What history teaches us about ending slavery

http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/the-human-cost-of-stuff/adam-hochschild-we-can-end-slavery-again