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Continued exploitation of children in cocoa industry
April 3
, 2007
Read the
BBC World Service report



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Fighting Slavery Today
March 30
, 2007
Latest newsletter.

International edition: click here

North American edition: click here

Australian and New Zealand edition: click here

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John Clarkson speaks about the 200th anniversary today of the abolition of the slave trade and the work of his famous ancestor, the abolitionist, Thomas Clarkson
March 24
, 2007
John Clarkson is a member of the Society's Board of Governors.  He writes about his very famous ancestor, who, with William Wilberforce, led the fight against the slave trade and slavery.



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Dr Keith Suter speaks about the 200th anniversary today of the abolition of the slave trade
March 24
, 2007
Dr Suter is Chairman of the Society.



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Forthcoming anniversary celebrations in Wilberforce and Pitt in New South Wales, Australia
March 21
, 2007
Wilberforce and Pitt are named after two famous abolitionists: William Wilberforce and William Pitt the Younger (at 26, the youngest ever British Prime Minister).

Screening of "Amazing Grace", St John's Anglican Church, 43 Macquarie Street, Wilberforce, New South Wales, on Sunday at 1 pm.

8 am service: Bishop Ivan Lee: 'The message of William Wilberforce'.

9.30 am service: Bishop Ivan Lee.

Stories of Modern Day Slavery - Sudanese Africans from Wentworthville.

11 am:  stalls, Manikans – stories of John Newtown in the old Church, William Wilberforce in the School House and Olaudah Equiano in the New Hall.

12 pm: coloring in competition, prizes, food stalls>

1.00 pm:  Amazing Grace Movie – first screening in Australia
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3pm: Amazing Change Campaign – Petition

3.25pm: Hawkesbury Bag Pipe Band – Amazing Grace.

 

Website: wilberforce.anglican.asn.au



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Slaves in Sudan
March 19
, 2007
Parents in southern Sudan are still waiting for the return of their children from slavery.



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Slaves in Mauritania
March 19
, 2007
Slavery still exists in Mauritania.



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Remembering slavery in Zanzibar
March 19
, 2007
The Archbishop of Canterbury revisits the whipping post and the old slave pens in Zanzibar, which was once the greatest slave market in the world.



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Stop the Traffik
March 11
, 2007
The Society is part of the Stop the Traffik alliance.

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Anonymous donation -
March 16
, 2007
We acknowledge receipt of an anonymous donation of $10.00.  We provide receipts for all donations (alas, not always in a timely fashion), and those who which are anonymous are acknowledged on the website.

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How you helped Titakashwar Sada, a 14 year former slave -
March 13
, 2007
Titakashwar Sada is 14 years old.  He comes from Patori, a village in the State of Bihar, the poorest State in India.  When he was about 9 years a middleman arrived in his village and took him away after deceiving his mother and father with false promises that he would provide Tilakashwar with a good education and vocational training.  Instead, the middleman sold him to Ramraj Bind, a loom master in the village of Harcharanpur in Badoi District, near Mirazapur, who forced him to work at a carpet loom.  Here he worked as a slave for 5 years.



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How you helped Ramappa Moogappa, a 12 year pawn slave -
March 12
, 2007
Ramappa  is 12 years and comes from Nidumakanahalli, Dinnahalli, Masti, in the taluk of Malur in the State of Karnataka in India.  He became a child pawn-slave (a bonded child laborer) when he was 12 years old.  His mother was working as a wage laborer to keep her family.  His father, who was a drunkard, borrowed 2,000 rupees for his sister’s wedding from Narayanaswamy Gowda in Kadusonnehalli in Malur taluk.  He worked every day from 4 am in the morning until 11 pm at night.  He had to clean the house, take the cattle to pasture, water the fields, bath the cattle and wash the tractor.  He ran away from his master on three occasions, but each time his master caught him, took him back to work and beat him for running away
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Anniversary of the abolition of British slave trade
March 11
, 2007
The BBC is commemorating the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade.

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St Stephen's School, Perth, Western Australia
March 11
, 2007
We wish to thank Lauren, a schoolgirl at St Stephen’s School, Perth, Western Australia, who organized a stand with material on the Society’s work.  St Stephen’s School is a Uniting Church school.


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Support
March 11
, 2007
The Society is grateful for the support of Monika Droste and Vivienne Bijok and Anthony Bijok for their continuing monthly financial support for the Society’s work over many years.



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