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August 26th is Women's Equality Day in the United States. This year, support an anti-trafficking organization founded by a brave and dynamic woman.
Coalition Assisting Trafficked Individuals (CATI)
http://catilondon.ca/Mission
The Coalition Assisting Trafficked Individuals (CATI) includes over 20 different social agencies, non-governmental organizations and individual persons in London and Middlesex County who:
- coordinate the delivery of services to people who have been in situations of human trafficking, and
- seek to prevent further instances of human trafficking by raising awareness of the issue.
- Contact Information:
- , Ontario
- Canada
- Active In: Canada
- Forms of Abolition:
- Awareness, Aftercare
- Forms of Slavery:
- Sex Trafficking, Forced Labor, Domestic Servitude, Bonded Labor, Child Labor, Forced Marriage
- Tel: (+1) (519) 439-0844
- Email: [email protected]
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The Myth of Abduction
The stereotype has been influenced by the movie Taken, which brought awareness to the issue of sex trafficking but also left people thinking that trafficking is white women bring kidnapped and sold to the highest bidder.
In Search of Freedomville
In a tiny speck of a village in Uttar Pradesh, India, a community of rock quarry miners have given their cluster of thatched roofed houses the name Azad Nagar. Freedomville. The miners named their village in 2000, only a few months after they staged a slave revolt that overthrew the profit-driven landowners who had held their families in slavery in rock quarries for generations. If you search for Azad Nagar on a map, you won’t find it. To everyone else, it’s called Sonbarsa. Located in the poorest province in one of the poorest countries in the world, Sonbarsa is a barren, rocky, plot of land in the middle of one of the most densely populated states in the world.