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  • _Paris_, the Constitutional Wisdom of _Ireland_ appears in a clear and happy Light: Persons, Things, Actions, and Expressions, were cautiously attended to, by the Laws; _Persons_, in their Minority, Youth, and

    An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland Henry Brooke

  • In the next sentence, by harmless and apostolic wisdom we have again taken refuge in that wisdom of the serpent to which we are bidden to be conformed no less than to the harmlessness of the dove, lest perchance through a repudiation of the unity of persons on the ground that the Father is one Person and the Son another, a preaching of the dissimilarity of their natures should again take us unawares, and lest on the ground that He who sent and He who was sent are two Persons (for the Sent and the Sender cannot be one Person) they should be considered to have divided and dissimilar natures, though He who is born and He who begets Him cannot be of a different essence.

    NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus 1898

  • The United States Office on Trafficking in Persons most recent report states that the majority of slaves in the world today are engaged in agriculture and mining.

    Julia Ormond: Slavery and Supply Chains Julia Ormond 2010

  • Persons is total and the bond between each of them complete, since they constitute a unique and absolute unity.

    New Releases 2009

  • The United States Office on Trafficking in Persons most recent report states that the majority of slaves in the world today are engaged in agriculture and mining.

    Julia Ormond: Slavery and Supply Chains Julia Ormond 2010

  • The United States Office on Trafficking in Persons most recent report states that the majority of slaves in the world today are engaged in agriculture and mining.

    Julia Ormond: Slavery and Supply Chains Julia Ormond 2010

  • This petition is part of the GAATW Stop, Look, Listen! urgent action calling for the implementation of a review mechanism and will be presented to governments during the fourth conference of states parties to the UN Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime and its Protocols (including the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons) – October 2010.

    Important Petition Regarding Human Trafficking Policies « Bound, Not Gagged 2009

  • Ironically, the Lugar report comes almost a year after Malaysia's Anti-Trafficking in Persons law came into force.

    Global Voices in English » Malaysia: Humans as Commodities 2009

  • « New Report Examines the Use of Raids to Fight Trafficking in Persons Trabajo sexual y derecho al trabajo – Sex work and the right to work »

    Know Your Rights For Sex Workers, Part 2 « Bound, Not Gagged 2009

  • The U.S. Department of State Ambassador Luis C deBaca who heads the blog from the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons writes about the dangers facing youth in the United States.

    Global Voices in English » USA: Activism to Stop Human Trafficking 2009

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