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Lack of Enforcement Fuels Trafficking

Fri, 07/01/2011 - 19:53

"Combatting human trafficking is important; reporting and talking openly about it is one measure of our precious American freedom: demonstrating the right to promote the sanctity of human lives. If we forget or lack the courage to do this, we are in effect, militating against our collective freedoms."

Cross-posted article  from Radio Free Asia

Lack of Enforcement Fuels Trafficking

2011-06-27  by Joshua Lipes

Governments must do more to implement anti-trafficking laws, according to a new U.S. report on human trafficking.


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Solidarity Walk for Pa Lee Klo, 20 years old, Murdered Last Friday in Georgia

Fri, 08/13/2010 - 22:13

(Clarkston, GA) -- The Karen Community of Georgia issued a press release inviting the public to participate in a Solidarity Walk on Sunday, August 15, 2010 at 5 p.m. to commemorate the life of Pa Lee Klo, a twenty-year-old Karen refugee who was senselessly killed last week in a driveby shooting outside of his home in Clarkston in Dekalb County, Georgia.

Dekalb County is home to one of the largest refugee populations in the South. The community has been increasingly concerned by the growing violence in the Clarkston apartment houses where Pa Lee Klo was killed.


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