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It didn't help that no single piece of information about Abdulmutallab was conclusive. For instance, a father's complaining that his son had joined the jihadist cause in Yemen doesn't automatically point to a threat to the homeland. Obama has vowed to improve intelligence sharing, but some experts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight: The Intelligence Breakdown | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

It is unclear if Sindiswa contracted HIV before or after she was sold, but some of her clients didn't use condoms. She was diagnosed with the virus only a week before I met her. When she was too sick to stand and thus useless as a slave, Jude had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa's New Slave Trade and the Campaign to Stop It | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

Despite more than a dozen international conventions banning slavery in the past 150 years, there are more slaves today than at any point in human history. Slaves are those forced to perform services for no pay beyond subsistence and for the profit of others who hold them through fraud and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa's New Slave Trade and the Campaign to Stop It | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

Although its 1996 constitution expressly forbids slavery, South Africa has no stand-alone law against human trafficking in all its forms. Aid groups estimate that some 38,000 children are trapped in the sex trade there. More than 500 mostly small-scale trafficking syndicates - Nigerian, Chinese, Indian and Russian, among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa's New Slave Trade and the Campaign to Stop It | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

He began a street ministry in April 2006 and recruited some 60 volunteers to distribute food, blankets and Bibles to the dozens of women and girls selling sex within a 10-block radius of the stadium. They also preached to clients and traffickers. Fights were commonplace. Lombard allowed his volunteers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa's New Slave Trade and the Campaign to Stop It | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

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