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SUMMARY:Thai El Monte Garment Workers: The Return of Slavery and Trafficking in The Modern Era
DESCRIPTION:At 4 am on August 2\, 1995\, Chanchanit Martorell\, Executive Director of the Thai Community Development Center\, met with government authorities and law enforcement at a doughnut shop in El Monte\, California\, blocks from the slavery compound that they would raid\, a row of apartment duplexes on a residential street\, eerily surrounded by barbed wire. The US Department of Labor\, California Labor Commission\, California Employment Development Department\, Cal-OSHA\, federal marshals\, and the El Monte police participated in the raid.  \nThai CDC mobilized a coalition of nonprofit organizations\, attorneys\, and community members to offer shelter\, food and clothing\, medical care\, jobs\, and legal services to the workers following their liberation.\n​\nThe Thai workers had labored for 18 or more hours every day inside rat-infested buildings where they lived crammed into bedrooms with ten of their fellow slaves. Their captors controlled them by confiscating passports\, hiring armed guards\, and physically threatening them and their families back home.  \nThey made clothes for brand-name manufacturers and nationwide retailers. Garments bore the labels Anchor Blue\, Tomato\, Clio\, B.U.M.\, High Sierra\, Axle\, and others—labels owned by well-known retailers\, such as Miller’s Outpost and Montgomery Ward\, or sold on the racks of Nordstrom\, Sears\, and Target. \nEl Monte was the first recognized case of modern-day slavery in the United States\, leading to the passage of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act in the year 2000. This exhibition tells the story of the case from the perspective of the survivors\, featuring their testimonies\, images and maps of the compound\, and other artifacts.​ \n(June 10- September 5 2021)
URL:https://www.freedomunited.org/event/thai-el-monte-garment-workers/
LOCATION:Los Angeles United Methodist Museum of Social Justice\, 115 Paseo de La Plaza\, LA\, CA 90012\, United States
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SUMMARY:6th CCARHT Summer Symposium 2021: 'The Body Trafficked' - Day 2
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to your place around the virtual table at the CCARHT 2021 Summer Symposium – here in Cambridge we are getting ready for an intense three days where we shall be exploring with participants from across the world\, the challenges posed by focussing on the various vulnerabilities of ‘the Body Trafficked’. \nDuring the course of these challenging three days we shall be listening to voices of survivors\, researchers\, theoreticians\, policy makers\, psychologists\, advocates for change and NGO front line responders\, anxious to thread together the disparate themes unleashed by this explicit focus on the body within trafficking. \nDay two – the trafficking in organs/ gametes and persons for organ harvesting \nTrafficking in Persons (TIP) for organ removal is a serious crime which demeans human dignity and the value of human life stated the GLO.ACT team in Vienna – sponsored by 12 million Euro – to address this egregious exploitation of vulnerable persons for the financial gain of the traffickers. The number of persons reported to be trafficked for the purpose of organ removal\, though small in terms of actual cases\, is clearly growing\, and Covid 19 conditions\, will undoubtedly put more pressure on the market for acquisition – due to stressed hospital resources\, and delay in non-Covid related interventions. According to UNODC’s 2020 Global Report on TIP North Africa\, followed by the Middle East\, has the highest share of detections of victims trafficked for the purpose of organ removal.\n·         Health Tourism – a growing option for Europeans?\n·         The trade in South Asia\n·         The North African Connection\n·         Baby farms and OCG in the Balkans\n·         The Republic of South Africa and the trade for body parts\n·         A spotlight on East African routes\n·         Gametes and Surrogacy\n·         The Psychological legacy\nIn focus Case Studies: Mozambique\, RSA\, Nigeria\, Libya\, India\, Norway\, the Gambia\, Romania\, Greece\, Ukraine\, Bulgaria\, Moldova\, Spain and Ukraine.
URL:https://www.freedomunited.org/event/6th-ccarht-summer-symposium-2021-day2/
LOCATION:Online
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