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Apple to employ trafficking survivors in efforts to eradicate slave labour
Thomson Reuters Foundation Apple will employ trafficking survivors to work in its retail stores, the technology giant said, after winning an international award for making details of its supply chains public in a bid to help end modern slavery. Since 2012 Apple says it has reduced the number of underage workers in its extended supply […]
Bible students in Myanmar “suffering health and psychological problems” after escaping armed group
World Watch Monitor Seventeen of the 41 Bible students forcibly recruited by an ethnic minority army in Myanmar’s northern Shan state in September have escaped, according to Catholic news site UCAN. The students arrived in groups of two or three at the Lahu Baptist Church in Kyaing Tong town, eastern Shan state, in the last two weeks, having fled […]
Music for activists: photos of dead, missing Thais inspire album
Thomson Reuters Foundation Photographs of dead and missing Thai rights activists have spurred a Canadian composer to create a music album and invite string quartets around the world to perform to draw attention to the violence campaigners face. More than 59 land and environmental activists have been killed or have disappeared in Thailand over the […]
ORPHANAGES: CALLS MOUNT TO STOP EXPLOITATION OF POOR CHILDREN TO LURE TOURISTS, MONEY
EMMA BATHA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on growing moves to address “orphan trafficking” around the world…
US Catholic bishops head for global meeting on sex abuse anxious for progress
RNS There was a lot of talk but not a lot of action. When American clerics at the US Conference of Catholic Bishops began their annual fall gathering in Baltimore on Monday, they were eager to take bold, decisive steps to address what many see as the biggest issue facing the church in years: the […]
ESSAY: WHY THE US NEEDS A NATIONAL ALL FAITHS INQUIRY INTO CLERGY SEX ABUSE
In an article first published on Religion News Service, CHRISTA BROWN, board member of the Child-Friendly Faith Project, and DAVID CLOHESSY, former director of SNAP, argue for the US to hold a national inquiry into clergy sex abuse similar to Australia’s recent Royal Commission…