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"As part of a conference on how to make schools more LGBT-friendly, Elly Barnes, a campaigner against homophobia in education, urged teachers to become more familiar with the language of the gay and lesbian community. "If it's all right for a girl to wear trousers, why should a boy not be allowed to wear a skirt. We should be giving them the option," she said. "[Teachers] need the confidence to embrace the new language, I don't think they'll have used the words 'lesbian' or 'gay' in a classroom. It is putting those words in an easy context. "LGBT bullying is as important as sexist and racist bullying. "If a pupil says 'my pen's run out, it's so gay', you should challenge it. 'My pen's so Jewish, my pen's so black', you wouldn't be allowed to say it." "Barnes, who is also an LGBT adviser with Birmingham City Council, told the Independent: "We can't ignore one part of the people who are around us.
"Human trafficking is a multi-billion dollar industry where perpetrators profit from the control and exploitation of others. While it can be found during the Super Bowl, it can also be found at motorcycle rallies in South Dakota, in the fields of Florida, in gangs in California, and in brothels in Washington, D.C. It's modern slavery, and it affects every corner of the country 365 days of the year."Human trafficking is not just happening in the U.S. Yesterday, Laurie Scott, MPP, Haliburton--Kawartha Lakes--Brock and the PC Caucus critic for Women's Issues, stood in the Legislature to debate the Private Member's motion which calls on the Liberal government to immediately take action and create a provincial task force to combat human trafficking in Ontario. "Over the last several months, I have spoken with police services, victim's services and NGO's from across Ontario. It is clear that domestic human trafficking is a growing problem and a provincial strategy that includes a public awareness campaign is needed to combat it," said Scott. "Human trafficking, often described as a form of modern day slavery, is a unique crime in that the commodity, the victim, is sexually exploited, earning a trafficker over $280,000 per year from just one victim. In 2014, there were 149 occurrences of human trafficking leading to 365 charges laid by Toronto Police Services alone. "The province is home to the largest number of domestic human trafficking cases, where the victims are born and raised right here in Ontario. These victims are manipulated by their trafficker, removed from their normal life to live and work in horrific conditions. They are moved from one community to another, particularly along Highway 401, where their 'services' are offered through online ads and social media," said Scott. The Scott motion, which calls for a provincial task force to combat human trafficking in Ontario, having a structure, complement and funding model similar to the existing Guns and Gangs Provincial Task Force. This new initiative would create a team of police, prosecutors and victim's services dedicated exclusively to fighting human trafficking and allow for co-ordinated information sharing between police services, large scale multi-jurisdictional enforcement projects and consistent specialized services for victims, received all party support. No, God isn't making Transsexual children, lib-left politics is. It's time to rescue children from all adult games justified under the spirit of the social engineering of out-of-whack lib-left politics.HERE ARE THE FACTS:
- Vulnerable people are trafficked in the commercial sex trade and labor industry every day in America.
- In 2014, the National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC) hotline received multiple reports of human trafficking cases in each of the 50 states and D.C.Read more 2014 hotline statistics here.
- More than 18,000 total cases of human trafficking have been reported to the NHTRC hotline in the last eight years. The hotline receives an average of 100 calls per day.Read stories of survivors who called the hotline for help.
- The International Labour Organization estimates that there are 20.9 million victims of human trafficking worldwide. 5.5 million of those are children. 14.2 million of those are victims of labor exploitation.
- In 2014, the International Labor Organization estimated that forced labor generates $150 billion in profits a year worldwide.
- In 2014, an estimated 1 out of 6 endangered runaways reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Childrenwere likely child sex trafficking victims. Of those, 68 percent were in the care of social services or foster care when they ran.
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Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years’ experience in the print media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared on Rush Limbaugh, Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com.