Monday, March 25, 2019

Social Movements And Law

I listened yesterday to a presentation of The A21 Campaign, a global non-governmental organisation that works to fight human trafficking. They compared their campaign to historical anti-slavery movements. But there is a big difference. Human trafficking then was legal. Now it is not. They themselves define it as "illegal trade of human beings". OBSERVATION: What worries me is that there are now many illegal activities -- human trafficking, violence against women, farm murders, pollution, corruption, and so on -- yet there are social movements to stop them. This would surely tend to make the application of law dependent on social movements. Wife E points out that it makes sense in the context of spiritual liberation.

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