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Sign petition to cap carbon at 350 parts per million

In June the Senate rejected Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-AK) attempt to destroy the Clean Air Act’s ability to curb carbon pollution.
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Sign petition to cap carbon at 350 parts per million

In June the Senate rejected Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-AK) attempt to destroy the Clean Air Act’s ability to curb carbon pollution.

The fight against human trafficking

Most victims are young, uneducated; impoverished; minority; rural; refugee Apr 14, 2008 - The 21st century has seen a growing infestation of greed and exploitation in the form of human trafficking, which the United Nations describes as the recruitment, harboring, transporting, or obtaining of a person through force, fraud, or coercion “for the purpose of subjugation to involuntary servitude, debt bondage, or slavery.” The international community has responded in recent years with multilateral strategies to combat this contemporary slavery. The following article was written by Emily Thrush, an intern with the Maryknoll Global Concerns’ office through the Church of the Saviour’s Discipleship Year program, and was published in the March-April 2008 issue of NewsNotes.