SEOUL—Thousands of North Korean women who fled famine in their homeland in recent years are believed to have been sold as “brides” to Chinese men, who often put them to backbreaking labor and subject them to constant fear, physical assault, and sexual abuse.

Stem Cell Research

Perhaps one of the most " current " current issues these days is what is happening in the area of Stem Cell Research. Will stem cell research will be the next crisis topic in bioethics? As with any crisis, it is important to find out what we can do about it and be prepared to enter the debate!

Protecting Our Children -

Cell Phone Pornography

There is another new twist to internet pornography and the continuous struggle to protect our children!

Children and Loss

In the press, on television and in the news magazines the last few weeks, we hear and read about the four men who are implicated in the terrorist attacks in the London subway bombings.

Child Abuse and Neglect

We can never invest enough in prevention! Each April for more than 20 years, thousands of organizations like The Salvation Army schedule events and activities and concentrate on Child Abuse Prevention awareness to bring attention to the issue of children’s welfare.

A Bigger Problem Than

We Can Imgaine

The 13 year old that ran away from home…

The ring of pimps that move girls from state to state so the authorities are not suspicious…

Young people, who come to countries with higher economic standards to make a living, and instead are exploited and forced to engage in menial work…

LET'S MOBILIZE

AGAINST PORNOGRAPHY

We need only to read the newspaper or listen to the news to hear about the victims of pornography. Sadly, it has affected some of us quite “close to home.”

BROADCAST OBSCENITY,

INDECENCY AND PROFANITY

FCC LAUNCHES NEW WEB SITE EXPLAINING ITS BROADCAST OBSCENITY, INDECENCY AND PROFANITY RULES, COMPLAINT PROCEDURES AND ENFRCEMENT ACTIONS.

iPods and Cell Phones

According to recent meetings at the FCC iPods are definitely the target area for adult movies and cell phones with the ability to produce pictures are being sent out by sexual predators to "children".

INVISIBLE CITIZENS?

HIV/AIDS

When I was an undergraduate at The University of Connecticut , I read Michael Harrington's "The Other America ." It was a book, which outlined how those in poverty became invisible citizens. Today we might call them people on the margin. The more things change, the more they remain the same!

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