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		<title>Help end human trafficking</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 05:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Abolitionist Sunday, celebrated in churches around Australia, with a focus on human trafficking and slavery – the buying and selling of people for exploitative labour or sexual slavery. Trafficking enslaves around 27 million people today, in countries worldwide.  Men, women and children are all vulnerable to human trafficking, driven by the demand for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodbenson.com&amp;blog=6661900&amp;post=1792&amp;subd=rodbenson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Today is Abolitionist Sunday</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 05:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Benson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Sunday November 20, is Abolitionist Sunday, and churches around Australia are celebrating and mobilising for action to end modern slavery. Two hundred years ago, Christians were at the forefront of efforts to abolish slavery.  Through the work of William Wilberforce and others, the evil tide was turned and slavery was eventually outlawed in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodbenson.com&amp;blog=6661900&amp;post=1789&amp;subd=rodbenson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The state of religious freedom in 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Benson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remarks on the Release of the International Religious Freedom Report Michael H. Posner, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Suzan Johnson Cook, Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom  Washington, D.C., September 13, 2011 [for the Annual Reports see http://www.state.gov/g/drl/irf/] ASSISTANT SECRETARY POSNER: Thank you. Good morning, everybody. As you know, the State Department is mandated by law [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodbenson.com&amp;blog=6661900&amp;post=1619&amp;subd=rodbenson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>High Court scuttles Malaysia deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 04:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Benson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, in a decision keenly awaited by Australians and by people smugglers, the High Court struck down the federal government’s asylum seeker swap deal with Malaysia. A large majority of the full bench ruled invalid the declaration by the Immigration Minister that Malaysia was an appropriate country to which to send asylum seekers, since [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodbenson.com&amp;blog=6661900&amp;post=1563&amp;subd=rodbenson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not just about rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 04:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Benson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We hear a lot of rhetoric these days about so-called “equal love” and “marriage equality.” It may sound reasonable, even desirable, but the reality ignores the distinctive quality and purpose of the marriage relationship.  Thousands of years of human culture and heritage, as well as specific religious and legal traditions, undergird the current understanding of marriage [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodbenson.com&amp;blog=6661900&amp;post=1547&amp;subd=rodbenson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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