"Instead of shackles and chains, traffickers use debt, coercion, fear and intimidation, " said David Abramowitz, vice-president of policy and government relations for Humanity United, a non-profit organisation dedicated to advancing human freedom.
According to Kate Cummings, an Ushahidi consultant in Monrovia, Liberia, Humanity United is funding an effort to set up an early warning system in advance of the late-2011 Liberian elections, that would spread the word about potential political violence before it erupts.
President Clinton, as he said, the passengers on Flight 93 knew that our common humanity is what united us most.
We need just national reform that values the contributions immigrants make to the character, prosperity, and humanity of the United States.
Jesus, when he came, was meant to marry and restore a perfect, united humanity through his children, but he was killed first.
The group Liberians United to Serve Humanity (LUSH) distributed food on behalf of the United Nations during the height of the Liberian crisis.
We are a stronger country because we respect our differences and we are united by our common humanity.
All cultures are different, but humanity stands as a single community when united around human rights and fundamental freedoms.
These injustices are an affront to our shared humanity -- which is why the United States has joined 153 other countries around the world in signing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which calls on all nations to establish protections and liberties like those afforded under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
To those who were against the war in Iraq I say that history will prove them wrong, and that Britain and the United States did a great service to humanity by liquidating Saddam.
He had, like a handful of Vietnam era veterans turned politicians, returned to a society drenched in the ideology of the 1960s and '70s, in whose view the United States was the chief enemy of humanity.
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The firms are accused of doing business with, and supporting, the white-minority South African government even after a United Nations ruling that apartheid was a crime against humanity.
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While others might seek only the latest bag of capitalist or technological tricks, there is much more humanity can learn from the grand and successful experiment that is the United States of America.
There is a great deal still to be done to make the United Nations, this indispensable organization, into an effective instrument humanity needs, in this new century, to fulfil the hopes for peace, development and human rights.
UN: TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN AT HEADQUARTERS, 22 MARCH 2001
By talking to women across the United States and in India, I am also reminded that there is a common humanity and a common thread that unites us in our efforts to remove barriers preventing women from working for the good of their communities.
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