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  • Soaps for Social Change

    Created: 04/17/09 by Anonymous

    You can't solve the world's problems sitting around listening to soap operas. Or can you?

    The world's population is growing by 80 million annually. In countries such as Mali, Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso, the average woman gives birth to between five and eight children.  For the poorest families, this can lead to dire consequences and ugly choices; face starvation or give children up to human traffickers.

  • Ruchira Gupta is a Changemaker

    Created: 12/11/09 by Anonymous

    Ruchira Gupta is a journalist, activist, and policymaker who has worked relentlessly for the past 25 years to end human trafficking and to empower some of the most marginalized girls and women in the world. She is best known for leading girls and women in prostitution to advocate for their own change though Apne Aap Women Worldwide, a community-based initiative in India that builds up the capacity of girls and women through small “self-help” group structures.

  • The Silent Sports Trade: Sex Trafficking

    Created: 03/01/11 by Anonymous

    by Ziba Cranmer, Vice President at Cone Inc.

    I am an athlete, I am a fan, and I am a woman. 

    As an athlete, I celebrate. I celebrate the skills and lessons I learned on the field (and truth be told, sitting on the bench).

    As a fan, I cheer. I cheer because I love the feeling of solidarity and community that comes from a shared commitment to a local or professional sports team.

    But as a woman, I cringe. I cringe because I know that some of our most celebrated sporting events, from the Super Bowl to the World Cup, are also the occasion of a terrible crime: the sex trafficking of tens of thousands of women and children.