When you’re privileged enough to attend a top-tier American university such as Duke, losing sight of the fact that your fate may have been different often comes with the package. Strutting to class in a pair of pricey high heels to hear well-paid professors talk and relaxing afterwards with a glass of pinot grigio at night, many girls at Duke and ( Read more... )

KOTA KINABALU: Some foreign women may be too pretty to work in a plantation at least that is what the Sabah Immigration Department thinks.

Its officers are taking a closer look at work pass applications from foreign women for jobs in the agricultural sector.

If the women are perceived to be too young or pretty to be working in plantations, their ( Read more... )

Video of U.N. Peacekeepers’ Sexual Assault of Haitian Prompts Calls to Focus on Post-Quake Rebuilding

AMY GOODMAN: The commander of the Uruguayan Navy’s United Nations mission in Haiti has been dismissed after the circulation of a video that allegedly shows Uruguayan peacekeepers sexually assaulting an 18-year-old Haitian man. Haitian ( Read more... )

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This is a follow-up to a story I posted here:http://ontd-political.livejournal.com/8159357.html

Source:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43088686/ns/world_news-americas

Mexican authorities returned ( Read more... )

Source:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-13434589
More than 500 illegal migrants have been discovered crammed into the trailers of two trucks heading from Mexico towards the US.The 513 migrants, from Latin America and Asia, were were found travelling ( Read more... )

Saved by Chinese social media

Peng Gaofeng appeared exhausted, but the migrant worker couldn't have been more content.

After three years of searching for his son, Wenle, he and his child were playing together at the offices of internet company Sina in Beijing. Peng traveled here last Friday to express his gratitude to some of the people behind ( Read more... )

They arrived in the United States from West Africa, young girls held against their will and forced to work for hours on end. But this time, it didn't happen hundreds of years ago. Nicole's journey started in 2002, when she was barely 12, in her small village in western Ghana. She and about 20 other girls were held in plain sight, but always ( Read more... )

Way to go, internet. A Metafilter user was concerned that his friends, two Russian immigrants promised work as lounge hostesses, were potentially walking into a dangerous situation. Other commenters saw the signs of a human trafficking operation and intervened ( Read more... )

Human trafficking disguised as temp work
Why didn't you just run away ( Read more... )