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The 2012 tour of She Has a Name was a fringe theatre tour across Canada of Andrew Kooman's She Has a Name, a play about human trafficking. The tour was co-produced by Burnt Thicket Theatre and Raise Their Voice and was directed by Stephen Waldschmidt. The five-person cast featured Carl Kennedy, Evelyn Chew, Glenda Warkentin, Alysa van Haastert, and Sienna Howell-Holden. Despite the fact that She Has a Name is set in Southeast Asia, the producers deliberately cast mostly actors who were not of Asian descent to avoid the impression that human trafficking happens only in Asia. Panel discussions were held after the Saturday matinées during the tour to raise awareness about human trafficking that takes place in Canada and elsewhere. A Better World (ABW) partnered with Raise Their Voice throughout the tour; while She Has a Name toured across Canada to raise awareness about human trafficking, ABW raised money to help women and children who had been trafficked in Thailand as part of the country's prostitution industry. Critical ratings of the performances that employed stars ranged between 3 and 5 stars out of 5. (Full article...)

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In ice hockey, the Chicago Blackhawks defeat the Boston Bruins to win the Stanley Cup.

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (pictured) is found guilty of paying for sex with an underage prostitute.

In sports car racing, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, won by Tom Kristensen, Allan McNish and Loïc Duval, is marred by the death of Allan Simonsen.

Flooding in Alberta, Canada, results in at least three deaths and the evacuation of thousands.

Flash floods and landslides in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh in India kill more than 1,000 people and trap more than 20,000.

In basketball, the Miami Heat defeat the San Antonio Spurs to win the NBA Finals.

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June 25: Statehood Day in Croatia and Slovenia

1900 – A Daoist monk discovered the Dunhuang manuscripts (sample pictured), a cache of documents from the 5th to 11th centuries, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.

1913 – More than 50,000 Union and Confederate veterans gathered at the Gettysburg Battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the largest combined reunion of American Civil War veterans ever held.

1944 – World War II: United States Navy and Royal Navy ships bombarded Cherbourg, France, to support U.S. Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg.

1978 – The rainbow flag representing gay pride first flew in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.

2009 – Swedish authorities removed eight-year-old Domenic Johansson from the custody of his parents on the grounds that he was not being properly educated.

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A female (left) and male Spotted Pardalote (Pardalotus punctatus), a small Australian songbird, as photographed at Risdon Brook Park, Risdon Vale, Tasmania. The species nests in tunnels; the pair shown here have nesting material in their beaks.

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