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American Heroes Today: The Battle to Pass the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Act

December 19, 2008 by Phyllis Chesler  
Filed under News and Opinion

Please don’t call me an optimist-my view of humanity and of human events has become far too sober-but, it is plain to see: Although the forces of evil may triumph, the battle is at least joined. Good men and women are “doing something.” They are fighting. Sometimes, they are even winning.

For example: In addition to the widespread and increasing use of rape as a systematic weapon of war, even of genocide, the international trafficking in persons, mainly women and children, has also risen alarmingly. Children are sold and women are lured or kidnapped and then sold into sexual slavery. All this is true and seems to be getting worse.

And yet, on the evening of December 10, 2008, the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Act was passed by both houses of Congress. According to Michael Horowitz, a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, who has led a left-right coalition on this subject for a decade, the bill passed by “unanimous consent”-but only after the “intense federal lobbying against it” had failed…Continue reading on Chesler Chronicles >>

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