Articles by Renee Lewis
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World’s First Ocean System Targeting Plastic Pollution to Launch in 2016
Renee Lewis – Al Jazeera America,
1 Jun 2015
29 May 2015 – The world’s first system designed to rid the oceans of plastic pollution will be deployed near Japan in 2016, with the aim of eventually capturing half of the plastic found in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — a large concentration of marine debris located between Hawaii and California.
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Renee Lewis – Al Jazeera America,
7 Jul 2014
The U.S. military will not be expanding its land mine stockpile and aims to eventually eliminate its entire supply so that it can accede to the Ottawa Convention, a 15-year-old international treaty on mines, the White House announced Friday [27 Jun 2014].
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Renee Lewis – Al Jazeera,
5 Dec 2011
The majority of the world’s trafficked people are in Southeast Asia, and about half of those are forced into sex work. The life of a sexually trafficked woman in Southeast Asia is almost unimaginable. The majority of victims are between 18 and 24 years old. Sexually trafficked women are often forced to have sex with as many as five to 15 men each night – and in most places they are not allowed to refuse potential “clients” for any reason.
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