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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 17, 2019
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A group of civil society organizations is warning that a growing global movement to decriminalize and rebrand prostitution as “sex work” could lead to more, not less, violence against the world’s most vulnerable women and girls. The critics are petitioning …
- Categories: Human Trafficking, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 31, 2015
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On the eve of a speech Ruchira Gupta was to give on International Women’s Day in New York as the recipient of a Woman of Distinction award, she got a strange email. Gupta, who has collected numerous awards for her …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Poverty, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 16, 2012
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After Ruchira Gupta, an Indian journalist, produced an Emmy Award winning documentary, “The Selling of Innocents,” about trafficking of women and girls from Nepal to India, she and 22 other women, from Mumbai’s red-light district who were featured in the …
- Categories: Asia, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 31, 2012
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The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or Pepfar, announced that it was donating $5 million to Together for Girls, a public-private partnership, to address violence against not only girls but also boys, including harassment, rape and pornography or prostitution …
- Categories: Health and Population, Women
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