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Young Animal Activists Challenge Chinese Culture..
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Animal welfare activists Wen Zhenyu and Luo Xinmei are trying to halt the illegal sale of endangered animals for food and medicines in the markets of Guangzhou in China - "Some people think we care about animals too much." Click on Turtle to go to video story
Below is a MUST, MUST SEE video... less than two minutes..!!
(JUST IN CASE YOU MISSED IT ON ANOTHER LINK)
(JUST IN CASE YOU MISSED IT ON ANOTHER LINK)
from NOTFORSALECAMPAIGN.ORG'S WEBSITE
Environmental Justice Foundation
Directly from their website: New technologies and media are invaluable tools for successful advocacy and the resolution of abuses. Modern communications can send images from an isolated communitiy to the world's power centres instantly. A trained video operator can document and expose abuses, telling the truth as it really is on location. Powerful video evidence and compelling filmed testimonies from those suffering from environmental destruction can reach targeted audiences and elicit positive change from the public, policymakers and corporations nationally and internationally...read full story
click here for THE TEN WORST COUNTRIES TO BE A WOMAN
Click to hear video of The Journey (sex trafficking)
journey -an art exhibit on human trafficking
Quoting from the article:
"Emma Thompson's powerful exposure of the horrors of sex trafficking suggests she is no ordinary celebrity activist. She tells Madeleine Bunting what drives her to fight injustice..." read full interview .-
Quoting from the article:
"Emma Thompson's powerful exposure of the horrors of sex trafficking suggests she is no ordinary celebrity activist. She tells Madeleine Bunting what drives her to fight injustice..." read full interview .-
Young girls 'in the trade'...
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From Kolkata, India, is Ruchira Gupta, president and founder of Apne Aap Women Worldwide, an organization in India which helps women out of prostitution. She won an Emmy Award for her documentary “The Selling of Innocents” on the trafficking of women and children from Nepal to India. Watch it on YouTube here.
Nepal Trafficking Video - click photo
NEPALI CHILDREN SOLD INTO CIRCUSES
In January 2007 a team from The Esther Benjamins Trust (www.ebtrust.org.uk) mounted a dramatic child sex-trafficking rescue operation from the New Raj Kamal Circus in Gorakhpur, north India. UK Daily Telegraph correspondent Tom Bell reports.... READ MORE
In January 2007 a team from The Esther Benjamins Trust (www.ebtrust.org.uk) mounted a dramatic child sex-trafficking rescue operation from the New Raj Kamal Circus in Gorakhpur, north India. UK Daily Telegraph correspondent Tom Bell reports.... READ MORE
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 click tigers to go to you tube on saving tigers Great Newsweek article and pictures. Also: Suspected drug dealers in Mexico leave exotic pets behind By Chris Hawley read story
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" Up to 500,000 animals may have been sold by the illegal network each year. Some of the animals sold are endangered. Parrots, jaguars, snakes, deer, and monkeys were sold illegally. One thousand birds were confiscated from the traffickers." Click on the photo of the macaw above to read full story...
Click image to read India's Sex Trade Exposed
6 trafficked woman were rescued in N. Ireland from Chinese Mafia click on image to read full story
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Healing Art School
Himmalayan Healers
Betsy met Rob Buckley, the founder of Healing Arts School, when she was living in Nepal. "He does beautiful, soulful, honest work and deserves having the word spread about his unique project... He's helping to abolish a whole destructive way of thinking that goes back centuries."
Direct from the their website:
"The Himalayan Healers Project, Nepal, is a Healing Arts School and collection of Non-Profit Spa Boutiques working to preserve the rich history of healing and energy work in the Himalayas, specifically for the benefit of sponsored students from the Untouchable castes of Nepal.
It is the only project in the world that trains "Untouchables" in the Healing Arts.
Living at the absolute bottom of the social hierarchy, and considered as existing outside of the actual caste structure, are the "Untouchables" - those with the lowest income levels and the most labor intensive and unhygienic jobs. Members of the Untouchable castes are considered to be "impure" and "untouchable", are restricted from entering the majority of community temples, have separate water supplies, and are deemed.... read the full story...
Betsy met Rob Buckley, the founder of Healing Arts School, when she was living in Nepal. "He does beautiful, soulful, honest work and deserves having the word spread about his unique project... He's helping to abolish a whole destructive way of thinking that goes back centuries."
Direct from the their website:
"The Himalayan Healers Project, Nepal, is a Healing Arts School and collection of Non-Profit Spa Boutiques working to preserve the rich history of healing and energy work in the Himalayas, specifically for the benefit of sponsored students from the Untouchable castes of Nepal.
It is the only project in the world that trains "Untouchables" in the Healing Arts.
Living at the absolute bottom of the social hierarchy, and considered as existing outside of the actual caste structure, are the "Untouchables" - those with the lowest income levels and the most labor intensive and unhygienic jobs. Members of the Untouchable castes are considered to be "impure" and "untouchable", are restricted from entering the majority of community temples, have separate water supplies, and are deemed.... read the full story...
EXOTIC ANIMALS AS PETS?
Read what the ASPC has to say. They were the first humane organization in the Western Hemisphere. Their mission, as stated by their founder, Henry Bergh, in 1866 is: “to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the United States.”
From ASPCA website: Would you keep a cat in a fish bowl? Or a hamster in a horse stable? Would you feed rabbit chow to your dog, or try to train a snake to sit? Yes, these are silly--even dangerous--things to do. Unfortunately, people do something similar when they keep exotic animals as pets.
Honey bears, sugar gliders, corn snakes, green iguanas, black panthers, rosy boas, flying squirrels, bearded dragons, veiled chameleons, spotted pythons, leopard geckos, even poison dart frogs and pot-bellied pigs--these are just some of the exotic animals people sell as pets. It may be easy to buy an exotic animal, but it is not a good idea. It is bad for the animals, bad for us and bad for the environment. And although it may be borderline legal to sell some of these animals, in many places it is illegal to buy them... read full article
From ASPCA website: Would you keep a cat in a fish bowl? Or a hamster in a horse stable? Would you feed rabbit chow to your dog, or try to train a snake to sit? Yes, these are silly--even dangerous--things to do. Unfortunately, people do something similar when they keep exotic animals as pets.
Honey bears, sugar gliders, corn snakes, green iguanas, black panthers, rosy boas, flying squirrels, bearded dragons, veiled chameleons, spotted pythons, leopard geckos, even poison dart frogs and pot-bellied pigs--these are just some of the exotic animals people sell as pets. It may be easy to buy an exotic animal, but it is not a good idea. It is bad for the animals, bad for us and bad for the environment. And although it may be borderline legal to sell some of these animals, in many places it is illegal to buy them... read full article
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