Watch Fraidy Reiss' Tedx Talk on Forced Marriage in the US
Many of us think that forced marriage only happens in developing countries. However, 48 states allow minors to marry.
Solidarity Network with Migrants Japan
www.migrants.jp/v1/English/smj/aboutm-net_e.htmlVolunteer Opportunities: Yes
History
In 1991, organizations in Kanto working on issues concerning migrants’ rights held “the Forum on Foreign Workers Issues in Kanto.” This forum is held annually. It successfully increased the number of organizations working on this issue. In 1996, they held the First National Form in Fukuoka. It was then decided to establish a nationwide networking organization that would cooperate on an ongoing basis. In 1997, “Solidarity Network with Migrants Japan” was launched.
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In Search of Freedomville
In a tiny speck of a village in Uttar Pradesh, India, a community of rock quarry miners have given their cluster of thatched roofed houses the name Azad Nagar. Freedomville. The miners named their village in 2000, only a few months after they staged a slave revolt that overthrew the profit-driven landowners who had held their families in slavery in rock quarries for generations. If you search for Azad Nagar on a map, you won’t find it. To everyone else, it’s called Sonbarsa. Located in the poorest province in one of the poorest countries in the world, Sonbarsa is a barren, rocky, plot of land in the middle of one of the most densely populated states in the world.