{"id":434,"date":"2011-11-17T10:25:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T18:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=434"},"modified":"2011-11-17T10:25:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T18:25:51","slug":"kristof-on-human-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/17\/kristof-on-human-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristof on Human Trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Kristof has another column about the awful reality of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/17\/opinion\/kristof-the-face-of-modern-slavery.html?hp&#038;pagewanted=all\">human trafficking<\/a>. (Reader discretion advised.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So for those of you doubtful that \u201cmodern slavery\u201d really is an issue for the new international agenda, think of Srey Pov&mdash;and multiply her by millions. If what such girls experience isn\u2019t slavery, that word has no meaning. It\u2019s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S. and around the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I agree. I don&#8217;t know how to solve that problem, but I like the work that Gary Haugen is doing at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ijm.org\/\">International Justice Mission<\/a>. If you&#8217;re looking for an unconventional Christmas present, or a charity to support before the year-end, consider them.<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2011\/11\/the-shock-of-modern-slavery.html\">Alex Tabarrok<\/a> at Marginal Revolution, who sadly concurs with that &#8220;millions&#8221; factor in Kristof&#8217;s article.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Kristof has another column about the awful reality of human trafficking. (Reader discretion advised.) So for those of you doubtful that \u201cmodern slavery\u201d really is an issue for the new international agenda, think of Srey Pov&mdash;and multiply her by millions. If what such girls experience isn\u2019t slavery, that word has no meaning. It\u2019s time &hellip; <span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/17\/kristof-on-human-trafficking\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[15,657,376,171,30,367,375,226,51,373,374],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-church","tag-compassion","tag-ijm","tag-international-law","tag-jargon","tag-justice","tag-kristof","tag-nytimes","tag-sermons","tag-slavery","tag-trafficking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}