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RECORD TITLE: AIMING TO BE THAT I AM

UPLOADED: Tue Jan 06, 2009

ARTIST: ASIA LAKAY

SELECTED LYRICS

CHORUS
AIMING TO BE THAT I AM

VERSE 1
I LOOK AROUND MATERIALISM / COMMERCIALISM / DRIVES ME CRAZY /I’M BLIND /EVERYDAY I ALMOST LOSE MY MIND / I F•KING LOSE IT
IT’S BECOME / I’VE BECOME A WHØ®£ / BUT THIS TIME THERE IS MORE FOR ME / MUCH MORE IN STORE / I HAVE A WILL / I HAVE SOME LIGHT
I HAVE A SONG / I HAVE A MIC / THE TIME HAS COME / TO MAKE IT REAL / I AM NO JOKE / THIS $HI†$ FOR REAL / SO HERE WE /GO/
I AIN’T GON STOP, STOP, STOP, STOP, STOP, STOP.

FULL SONG : HI FI STREAM : LISTEN

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Oppression, Slavery, Sex-Trafficking and HIV/AIDS – Linked?

Yesterday, December 1st was World AIDS Day. “The United Nations’ (UN) International Day for the Abolition of Slavery is annually observed on December 2 to remind people that modern slavery works against human rights.” This goal of this blog post is to prove that their is a link between slavery and new HIV/AIDS infections. Ultimately, knowledge is power, so visit the additional resources at the end of this article to learn more about how you can take action and help make a difference.

“The slave trade is probably the human tragedy that affected the greatest number of people for the longest period of time in History. However, it is only an episode of slavery, which is a larger phenomenon that dates back to the earliest Antiquity.

Today, it persists under new forms of massive violations of the human rights proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations in 1948 (child labour, forced labour, prostitution…etc).”

Modern Forms of Slavery

According to a 2007 study published by the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) in conjunction with Boston’s Harvard School of Public Health and other US research centers;

“US researchers suggest that the trafficking of young girls and women as sex slaves is helping to spread HIV in South East Asia. A study on the prevalence of HIV infection in Nepalese girls and women who were trafficked to India as sex slaves and then repatriated shows that 38 per cent of them were HIV positive.”

For young women who were sex-trafficked before their 15th birthday, “the HIV infection rate was above 60 per cent. One in seven of the women and girls had been forced into prostitution when they were younger than 15.”

“HIV infection has been seen as perhaps the most critical health consequence of sex trafficking, but sex-trafficked girls and women are rarely studied; leaving the prevalence of HIV and other health issues among this highly vulnerable population little understood.”
~Jay Silverman, Associate Professor of Society, Human Development, and Health at HSPH and lead author of the study.

2007 STATISTICAL DATA

Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com

“Let’s make a difference in the lives of women and girls who continue to suffer from physical, sexual and emotional violence.” Pionie Boso, Solomon Islands coordinator of the Gender Based Violence and Child Abuse Project.

Although this post focused on woman and young girls impacted by Modern-Day slavery, Here in the U.S., Black men are 5 times more likely than white men to be locked up for the same crime. With the 2007 infection rate of Black men currently standing at more than double that of any other demographic, I am left to wonder how many Black Men are contracting HIV/AIDS through unprotected sex while in prison.

::Article Sources
TimeAndDate.com – International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
Sex Slavery Spreads HIV In South Asia
Public urged to break the silence over gender violence

::Additional Resources
16 days of Activism on Violence against Women and Children: a chance to reflect
Abolition Day Project – Frederick Douglass Family Foundation
Anti-Slavery – Today’s Fight for Tomorrows Freedom
Howard Zinn And The Co-option Of Social Change