{"id":95,"date":"2018-02-18T15:21:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T20:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/?p=95"},"modified":"2018-02-18T15:21:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T20:21:02","slug":"slavery-still-exists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/2018\/02\/18\/slavery-still-exists\/","title":{"rendered":"Slavery still exists."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/democracy-post\/wp\/2017\/06\/27\/its-the-21st-century-yet-slavery-is-alive-and-well\/?utm_term=.970e3bf74a9a\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/democracy-post\/wp\/2017\/06\/27\/its-the-21st-century-yet-slavery-is-alive-and-well\/?utm_term=.970e3bf74a9a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Slavery. This word gives me chills. I find it incomprehensible that the ownership of other human beings was justified not all that long ago. I came across a very disturbing article,\u00a0<em>It&#8217;s the 21st century. Yet slavery is alive and well.\u00a0<\/em>Although the title is pretty self-explanatory, I felt obligated to read on. The article begins with a reference and a link to the State Department&#8217;s &#8220;Trafficking in Persons Report&#8221;. I encourage everyone who reads this post to please check it out. Although it is terrifying, it gives readers a glimpse at the large gap that still exists today between laws prohibiting slavery and the actual enforcement of them. There have been great strides in the effort to free those who are captive, and prosecute slave-owners. Organizations such as The International Justice Mission (IJM) focuses efforts on freeing women and children enslaved to brothels in Southeast Asia. &#8220;The prevalence of minor girls in the sex industry plummeted by more than 80 percent&#8221; (Burkhalter, 2017). Global grant-making foundations, funded by private investors and donor governments are being created. In doing so, the United States creates an opportunity for collaboration with governments in which slavery is still prevalent to rescue victims and put a stop to modern-day slavery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/democracy-post\/wp\/2017\/06\/27\/its-the-21st-century-yet-slavery-is-alive-and-well\/?utm_term=.970e3bf74a9a Slavery. This word gives me chills. I find it incomprehensible that the ownership of other human beings was justified not all that long ago. I came across a very disturbing article,\u00a0It&#8217;s the 21st century. Yet slavery is alive and well.\u00a0Although the title is pretty self-explanatory, I felt obligated to read on. The article begins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3770,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3770"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}