Comments on: Forced to Travel http://wendimomen.com/2007/10/09/forced-to-travel/ Travelling Light Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:22:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: wendi http://wendimomen.com/2007/10/09/forced-to-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-118 wendi Sun, 14 Oct 2007 01:06:23 +0000 http://wendimomen.com/2007/10/09/forced-to-travel/#comment-118 Yes, please do. Good to hear from you! Love, Wendi Yes, please do.

Good to hear from you!

Love,
Wendi

]]> By: Vadiay http://wendimomen.com/2007/10/09/forced-to-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-115 Vadiay Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:55:59 +0000 http://wendimomen.com/2007/10/09/forced-to-travel/#comment-115 Hello Wendi, I have been wandering through your blog and have really enjoyed it.. As for this post... if it's ok with you, can I share some of the info with my students? We were just talking about women and equality and I was trying to explain to them how it wasn't a done deal and how so unbelievably privileged they were to be sat in a classroom discussing whether they felt they had equal rights and opportunities with men... I guess mum told you I left Nur in the end and got a new job, but I still teach there in the evenings... it's a tough time table but I love the kids and want to keep at least a toe in :-) Take care. Hello Wendi,

I have been wandering through your blog and have really enjoyed it..

As for this post… if it’s ok with you, can I share some of the info with my students? We were just talking about women and equality and I was trying to explain to them how it wasn’t a done deal and how so unbelievably privileged they were to be sat in a classroom discussing whether they felt they had equal rights and opportunities with men…

I guess mum told you I left Nur in the end and got a new job, but I still teach there in the evenings… it’s a tough time table but I love the kids and want to keep at least a toe in :-)

Take care.

]]> By: Toby Doncaster http://wendimomen.com/2007/10/09/forced-to-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-113 Toby Doncaster Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:06:04 +0000 http://wendimomen.com/2007/10/09/forced-to-travel/#comment-113 Horrific reading indeed; I think that when Tony Blair referred to "Education, Education, Education" it is this sort of knowledge he should have had in mind, the need for our citizenry to realise the impact their carnal desires have on innocent people unable to fight for themselves. One bright glimmer, human trafficking is gradually being brought to our attention, for example, the television programme on Monday about child-selling in China. I also remember children being sold as jockeys in several camel-racing countries; this has gradually been brought to a close. How embarrassing for the UK, a champion for Human Rights, to have these figures as their contribution to human misery! Horrific reading indeed; I think that when Tony Blair referred to “Education, Education, Education” it is this sort of knowledge he should have had in mind, the need for our citizenry to realise the impact their carnal desires have on innocent people unable to fight for themselves.

One bright glimmer, human trafficking is gradually being brought to our attention, for example, the television programme on Monday about child-selling in China. I also remember children being sold as jockeys in several camel-racing countries; this has gradually been brought to a close.

How embarrassing for the UK, a champion for Human Rights, to have these figures as their contribution to human misery!

]]> By: Barney http://wendimomen.com/2007/10/09/forced-to-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-111 Barney Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:50:32 +0000 http://wendimomen.com/2007/10/09/forced-to-travel/#comment-111 These figures are horrendous. Far worse is the suffering, terror, pain and utter loss of human dignity behind the figures. In the 18th and 19th centuries it took the courage, commitment and energy of individuals and groups - not a few of them were women - to bring about an end to the transatlantic slave trade and, eventually, to outlaw slavery as a practise. Clearly civil society is better organized today and more experienced, but it still requires indviduals to commit themselves to the fight against slavery in the form of human trafficking - one of the most despicable of criminal activities. These figures are horrendous. Far worse is the suffering, terror, pain and utter loss of human dignity behind the figures. In the 18th and 19th centuries it took the courage, commitment and energy of individuals and groups - not a few of them were women - to bring about an end to the transatlantic slave trade and, eventually, to outlaw slavery as a practise.

Clearly civil society is better organized today and more experienced, but it still requires indviduals to commit themselves to the fight against slavery in the form of human trafficking - one of the most despicable of criminal activities.

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