HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Human Wrongs Watch

Working on the frontline to end human trafficking

Honouring  first responders helping to end human trafficking: law enforcement officers, social workers, healthcare professionals, NGO staff and others working to protect the vulnerable. Photo: UNODC

28 July 2020 (United Nations)* — This year, we will focus on the first responders to human trafficking. These are the people who work in different sectors – identifying, supporting, counselling and seeking justice for victims of trafficking, and challenging the impunity of the traffickers.

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By John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service*

The Power to Make and Enforce Laws Acting on Individuals

John Scales Avery

The history of the Federal Constitution of the United States is an interesting one. It was preceded by the Articles of Confederation, which were written by the Second Continental Congress between 1776 and 1777, but it soon became clear that Confederation was too weak a form of union for a collection of states.

George Mason, one of the drafters of the Federal Constitution, believed that “such a government was necessary as could directly operate on individuals, and would punish those only whose guilt required it’”, while another drafter, James Madison, wrote that the more he reflected on the use of force, the more he doubted “the practicality, the justice and the efficacy of it when applied to people collectively, and not individually.”

Finally, Alexander Hamilton, in his Federalist Papers, discussed the Articles of Confederation with the following words:

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By Isaiah Esipisu*

CHEPKITALE, Kenya , Jul 21 2020 (IPS)* – The Ogiek community, indigenous peoples from Kenya’s Chepkitale National Reserve, are in the process of implementing a modern tool to inform and guide the conservation and management of the natural forest. The community has inhabited this area for many generations, long before Kenya was a republic. Through this process, they hope to get the government to formally recognise their customary tenure in line with the Community Land Act.