Each piece is hand-beaded with care by the Samburu women of the Sampiripiri Arts workshop, Ol Malo.Your purchase of a beaded Table Setting Package will provide a Samburu woman with three weeks work and enable her to give her family many of life’s necessities. Each piece signed by artisan.
Ol Malo Designs is a company owned and run by Julia Francombe that provides employment and help for the Samburu people in Kenya, and develops their talents through art. Julia employs more than 100 Samburu women who do the incredible beadwork, a native skill. These Kenyan beaded products are sold locally in the Ol Malo Designs shop, and internationally through distribution partners. *May vary in size and color 2-4″ nesting diameter/height.
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The keynote speaker for the institute will be Dr. Claude Clegg, professor of history at Indiana University. The purpose of the institute is to prepare teachers to prepare their students to tour the
Without Sanctuary exhibition. There is no charge for this institute.
Educators can earn professional development hours or college credit (for an extra fee) for attending. (continental breakfast included).
Dr. Claude Clegg from Indiana University
“Confronting
Lynching: An Academic and Personal Perspecitive”
Dina Bailey & Katie Johnson from the NURFC
“Living Without Sanctuary: Interpreting the Lynching Era” Click here to read more »
Ohio Senators Teresa Fedor (D-Toledo) and Tim Grendell (R-Chesterland) have introduced legislation that would make human trafficking in Ohio a second-degree felony. A bi-partisan group of twenty-six senators have co-sponsored the legislation.
Fedor’s office noted that Ohio is one of only seven states lacking felony-level language for human trafficking in-line with federal standards.
“Ohio needs legislation that will attack human trafficking criminal enterprises and put them away for a very long time,”Senator Fedor said. “Children are trafficked within Ohio’s borders every year because the traffickers know our laws are weak. It is about time Ohio joined the 43 other states with human trafficking laws on the books and let traffickers know – our children are not for sale.”
The bill comes on the heels of a report by the Ohio Trafficking in Persons Study Commission, of which Senator Fedor is vice-chairwoman. The report found that over one thousand children are trafficked in Ohio each year, while several thousand more are considered to be at risk.
“Ohio’s Criminal Justice system needs a new tool to fight the growing travesty of human trafficking in our great State. We can not sit by while hundreds of people are victimized every year by what equates to modern day slavery,” said Senator Grendell, the joint sponsor who chairs the Senate Criminal Justice Committee.
Here’s a copy of the legislation.
Students at the University of California-San Diego are aggressively protesting a series of racially charged campus incidents — including the display of a noose in the school’s main library– that has many observers questioning the school’s commitment to racial justice. For a time, protesters took over UCSD’s Chancellor’s office.
Among those appealing for calm was Freedom Center CEO and President Don Murphy, who was at his alma mater for a speaking appearance.
The incident in California reflects just the kind of racial insensitivity that is explored in the Freedom Center’s current exhibition, Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America. It’s clear from new media accounts of the UCSD situation that the display of a noose, while considered innocuous by many, is for many others — especially African Americans — as a racially motivated hate crime.
What’s your opinion? What should UCSD’s Administration do to address the incident? Post your comments on the Freedom Blog.
Map of Ohio
A few weeks ago, Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray released a report demonstrating that there was human trafficking in the state, and he even had numbers to prove the point.
There were, the report said, 3,437 foreign born persons in Ohio who may be at-risk for both labor and/or sex trafficking, 783 of which are estimated to be trafficked into the labor or sex trade in Ohio.
Furthermore, Cordray’s report added, of American born youth in Ohio, 2,879 are at-risk for sex trafficking, and another 1,078 youth have been trafficked into the sex trade over the course of a year.
These are shocking numbers, even in a state with a population of 11 million. The news media and bloggers soon were repeating these numbers all over the Internet as proof positive that Ohio — staid, old, Midwestern backbone of American values Ohio — was the epicenter of human trafficking in the United States.
Is that a fair description? Is it even accurate?
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L.A. Reid
Influential music executive and Cincinnati native Antonio “L.A.” Reid will be at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center on Sunday, February 21, to participate in a discussion on how his entrepreneurial success is connected to the African American rise from slavery to freedom. His appearance, at 1:30 in the Harriet Tubman Theater, is free and open to the public.
Forgoing the typical speech format, Reid will engage in a discussion with 101.1 The WIZ’s Jade West, and then answer questions from the audience. Seating is limited to 300, and reservations are required. To RSVP send an e-mail to FreedomCenterRSVP@gmail.com.
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The DCAF report, from which the previous entries in this series of blog posts was drawn, does not specifically assess U.S. law enforcement and criminal justice efforts to combat human trafficking. But much of its observations about the status of anti-trafficking efforts worldwide apply to our country, both in terms of progress being made as well as nagging issues that are preventing a more effective response.
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Immediately after I arrived home from the convention in Arizona, I headed to Alabama for a two month stay. Settling in took longer than I anticipated, but I should now be able to answer some of the posts and also share some of the tips I learned in Arizona. The one that hit closest to me was the one about naturalization papers. I had found the naturalization paper of my great grandfather and great uncle who were born in Germany. However nothing surfaced for my great grandmother. Chauvanistic, I thought. Not true! Whenever the male head of the family was naturalized so were all of his dependents. A lesson learned!
Allison Jernow, a former Justic Department prosecutor and now senior legal officer at the International Commission of Jurists, provides this perspective on human trafficking: “Whatever else you can say about human trafficking,” she writes in a chapter in the DCAF report, ” it is a real and tangible violation of an individual’s rights.”
But for human trafficking victims, legal protections of those rights remain far from assured, leaving many men, women and children as legal lost souls — citizens that no one seems to want, and whose access to basic human rights is often stymied.
This is the ultimate devastation of contemporary slavery: its victims are left struggling to become members of society, months and even years after their actual experience with slavery has ended. “The mistreatment of (human trafficking) victims, especially in destination countries, is widespread and well-documented,” the DCAF report explains. “Despite any number of international protocols to address trafficking victims and look after their well-being, actual implementation falls well short of adequate protection.”
As the DCAF report makes clear, human trafficking — the popular term for the contemporary slave trade — is flourishing across the globe, driven in equal parts by criminal enterprise and economic desperation. As it grows and spills across national borders, trafficking is forcing governments — often reluctantly — to deal with psychologically and emotionally scarred (and often physically abused) individuals suddenly dropped in their midst.
While some progress is evident, the DCAF report concludes that legal protections that safeguard the individual rights of trafficking victims remains a distant goal.
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