Former Child Slave James Kofi Annan, Bringing Children from Slavery to Salvation
James Kofi Annan and Richard Lui speak at Wellesley College Amnesty International event.
Human trafficking was the topic of a special event hosted by Wellesley College's chapter of Amnesty International. The speakers, an MSNBC Anchor/Correspondent and the founder of an organization fighting the practice the world over. Richard Lui of MSNBC began the presentation with some frightening statistics. He said, at that moment, over 12.3 million people were being trafficked--around twice the population of Massachusetts. Lui then put up a photo of a young girl named May. They had interviewed her while working undercover in an Indonesian cafe known for trafficking. "She [May] was sitting behind a, well, I call it a 'meat rack,'" Lui explained. "They were talking like, 'do you want sirloin?' ...that kind of discussion." Lui and his …
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2:50 am on Monday, November 1, 2010
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