The next meeting of the Half the Sky book group will be this Wednesday night, March 13, at the Gottliebs’. We will finish the book. Please come prepared to discuss Chapters 11-13.
We will devote an entire meeting in April to the question of Chapter 14 “What You Can Do”. What can we do as individuals, as an RPCV group, as concerned citizens… ??
Contact Becky Raymond for more info (raymondb@nycap.rr.com).
Related resources:
United Nations – Global Report on Trafficking in Humans
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/global-report-on-trafficking-in-persons.html
Safe Horizon website. An organization with the largest anti-trafficking program on the east coast
http://www.safehorizon.org/index/what-we-do-2/anti-trafficking-program-13.html
U.S. Anti Trafficking Victims Protection Act
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/10492.pdf
Very Young Girls | Girls held in prostitution in NYC and those trying to help them
http://www.gems-girls.org/get-involved/very-young-girls
Description of the movie I recommended – The Whistleblower (be sure to also watch the interview with the real Kathryn Bolkovac)
http://dvd.netflix.com/Search?v1=the+whistleblower&fcld=true&ac_category_type=none&ac_rel_posn=-1&raw_query=the+whistleblower&search_submit=&ac_abs_posn=-1
