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Human trafficking is a global human rights issue that has profound and tragic repercussions for millions of women and children every year. In North America, Canada is currently a destination for victims of trafficking, and a transit route into the United States. Traffickers have exploited the open border between the United States and Canada to perpetuate a modern form of slavery that forces oppressed women and children into forced labour and/or prostitution. Currently, Canada has no formal policy or program to provide protection, assistance, and services to victims. A multidimensional approach to combating human trafficking is necessary in Canada, with legislation that provides protection to victims escaping the web of trafficking.
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Global Exchange, a U.S.-based non-governmental organization with a well-known brand as an educator on world issues and a tradition of campaigning against corporate power in the food industry, produced a corporate social responsibility report last month on Hershey's entitled "Time to Raise the Bar.
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Slavery was a dominant phenomenon of antiquity. Gradually it has declined in the modern world. The blessings of modern moral attitudes and virtues were instrumental for these structural changes. Recently, child trafficking, especially female child trafficking has become a painful reality in Bangladesh. This child trafficking has been occurring internally and also across the border to India, Pakistan, Malaysia and many Middle Eastern countries. The rate of growth of this trafficking has been increasing alarmingly in this country. Every year several hundred (under the age of eighteen) children are being trafficked abroad. These trafficked children are adapting to a new life style which is different from the life style had they lived in their normal (life style which they supposed to follo...
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The paper describes the nature and role of accounting during apprenticeship - the transition period from slavery to waged labor in the British West Indies. Planters, colonial legislators, and Parliamentary leaders all feared that freed slaves would flee to open lands unless they were bound to plantations. Thus, rather than relying entirely on economic incentives to maintain viable plantations, the Abolition Act and subsequent local ordinances embodied a complex synthesis of paternalism, categorization, penalties, punishments, and social controls that were collectively intended to create a class of willing waged laborers. The primary role of accounting within this structure was to police work arrangements rather than to induce apprentices to become willing workers. This post-emancipation...
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My life will never be the same again," said [Jean], the Haitian-born descendant of slaves. "This doesn't concern just the descendants of slaves," she said. "There are still children who are enslaved. I know that slavery is still a reality today. "We can't say that we're unaware this is happening ... Indifference is guilt. Indifference is a killer..."
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Human trafficking is alive and well in Canada," said Smith. "The way it can stop is for the public to be aware. "I've been quietly working on the issue," said Smith. "It's become my life's passion." "It's a shocking thing in Canada that the slave trade is alive and well," she said. "But human trafficking has been under the public radar screen for too long."
