Injustice
Loyola Law Professor Dr. Kathleen Kim wrote a paper called “The Coercion of Trafficked Workers” describing labor settings where coercion is explicitly codified as a fundamental legal element in human-trafficking crimes. Although this paper is about using psychological means to hold immigrants hostage and achieve slave labor, the concepts can even be applied to adults in polygamy and other cults. The Coercion of Trafficked Workers Abstract: Enacted pursuant to the Thirteenth Amendment’s section 2 enforcement power, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (“TVPA”), criminalizes the use of psychological coercion to compel labor. The TVPA further aims to protect and provide...
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks. The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. All are equal before the law and are entitled to equal protection of the law. These are basic human rights. How many human rights are being violated by...
I just watched the hearbreaking trailer – The End of Slavery. Slavery, also known as “human trafficking” is more rampant today than during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Child prostitution, child labor, forced labor of adults – all of it is modern day slavery. Today more than 30 million men, women and children are enslaved by violence, threats and coercion. I got this from the site: Narrated by actor Danny Glover, At the End of Slavery: The Battle for Justice in our Time takes you inside the violent and ugly business of modern-day slavery — the buying and selling of human...
LORNA DUECK From Monday’s Globe and MailLast updated on Monday, Sep. 28, 2009 02:16AM EDT Shopping for a legal team to prosecute polygamy in Canada is tougher than shopping for a harem. How can it be easier to maintain 19 women in a polygamous relationship than to find a court able to enforce Canada’s Criminal Code against polygamy? It’s a symptom of tolerance, injustice and, ironically, the Charter of Rights. READ MORE...
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