The following is a new feature of the Freedom Blog.  It is a weekly digest of Twitter posts (called “tweets”) about human trafficking and contemporary slavery issues.  For those on Twitter, you can follow us @Freedom Center.

• Even as terrorist bombs explode in Pakistan, a #contemporary slavery crisis is festering there: http://bit.ly/2diUW4 #
• Sex #trafficking is real, pervasive and growing, notes this British newspaper columnist: http://bit.ly/3qjmtd #
• How are #human trafficking refugees to the U.S. treated? Not well, says this report: http://bit.ly/2j7e7Y #
• U.S. & Canada law enforcement agencies partnering on cross-border crimes, including #human trafficking: http://bit.ly/1K2ip2 #
• RT @NURFCjamie: RT @IJMHQ: Metro-Detroiters: FB invite for At the End of Slavery screening. http://bit.ly/24tdvU (via @Nowhere2Hide) #ATEOS #
• @cfpdx Mauritania is one of the last places on earth where chattel slavery is still practiced — despite law banning slavery! in reply to cfpdx #
• RT @Promette: RT @povertynewsblog New report exposes human trafficking into the UK http://bit.ly/4x6cTr #
• RT @PaulB67: RT @Promette: RT @povertynewsblog New report exposes #human trafficking into the UK http://bit.ly/4x6cTr #
• China Daily offers a detailed glimpse into #human trafficking along the Lao-China border. #
• Australia underwrites major anti-#human trafficking initiative with the Philippines: http://bit.ly/1hwqG4 #
• RT @ROBLOVE146: RT @VitalVoicesOrg: RT @whitehouse Secretary Napolitano focuses in on #humantrafficking http://bit.ly/1ohT97 #
• RI outlaws prostitution, after years of controversy abt whether sex for pay is a form of #human trafficking: http://bit.ly/27Rkzw #
• RT @cfpdx: Share & Post this> Test Drive PSA – Anti-Trafficking Message w/Ashley Judd: http://bit.ly/15wyoV #endthedemand #trafficking #
• Article in Canadian faith-based publication offers glimpse of the growth of #human trafficking of women for sex: http://bit.ly/2XySwu #