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Resource Journal: July 15, 2009
The United States Government released the 2009 edition of its Human Trafficking Report, with Malaysia at the top of its list of trafficking offenders. The report believes the recession has increased the worldwide trade. The ILO estimates 12.3 million adults and children are victims of forced labor, bonded labor and sex slavery each year.
The world’s oldest Bible, the Codex Sinaiticus (which contains the entirety of the New Testament, most of the Old, as well as parts of the Apocrypha) is now available in digital form online. You can see images of each of the 400 large leaves of prepared animal skin, along with the text and translation, “digitally reunited in a project involving groups from Britain, Germany, Russia and Egypt.” The Codex Sinaiticus was created in the 4th century in Greek.
In Off the Shelf: China’s Wide Reach in Africa two journalists examine an economic partnership that has grown dramatically in recent years.
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