Last May a group of people calling themselves “intactivists” succeeded in having their petition qualify for the November ballot in California. They believe that circumcision is genital mutilation and seek to abolish it and make it illegal. Religious groups are predictably taking the case to court. Meanwhile in Africa there are groups trying to talk…

A 13 year-old girl in the psychiatric unit of a Texas hospital was scheduled to be released after a month long stay. She was due to be picked up by Children Protective Services (CPS) and taken home, but wasn’t. Her adoptive mother no longer wanted her unless she could be assured that the girl had…

We’re used to think of human trafficking in relation to sex, but a new report from World Vision issues an alert on labor trafficking. People particularly in East Asia are being sold into slavery in several industries, but most commonly the fishing, food processing and domestic work ones. The report estimates that in the region…