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Teens Are Starting to Study, Talk About Sex Trafficking

By Naomi Grant & Por Alison Bowen ● Teen Voices ● January 14, 2016

Advocacy groups are sending their curricula into classrooms as a way to prevent some of what the U.S. Justice Department estimates as 300,000 cases of sex trafficking each year in the U.S.

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Finitzo Scores with Documentary ‘In the Game’

By Susanna Brustin ● Arts & Culture ● September 30, 2015

Playing soccer is hard. Playing soccer when you are a girl living in a poor Chicago neighborhood is even harder. Documentary filmmaker Maria Finitzo focuses on the life skills of three players who have a lot going on off the field in “In the Game.”

Moms: 7 Ways to Help Your Daughters’ Self-Esteem

By Diane Loupe ● Uncategorized ● May 6, 2014

Here’s a present for any mother who is trying to cope with a daughter going through adolescence and suddenly not as confident as she once was: advice from the “chief girl expert” for Girl Scouts of USA.

Five Ways to Stop Criminalizing Victimized Girls

By Jeannette Pai-Espinosa ● Uncategorized ● April 15, 2014

Girls are far more likely to wind up being criminalized for “status offenses” that would be overlooked in adults, so let’s start right there and support a bill introduced in February. Too many of the girls we criminalize are traumatized victims who need help, not punishment.

Six Ways to Boost Girls’ (and Our) Body Image

By Melissa Atkins Wardy ● Arts & Culture ● January 25, 2014

Our culture teaches our girls to be a hot body first and a mind second, says Melissa Atkins Wardy in this excerpt from “Redefining Girly.” Here are her suggestions for breaking the mold.

Faith-Based Housing Helps Women Leave Prison

By Angeli R. Rasbury ● Crime & Law ● December 2, 2013

Calls from the bus station can come at 2 a.m. for two Christian centers run by women, one in Texas, the other in Tennessee. The job is to keep the lights on for female ex-cons with nowhere else to go.

‘Young Invincibles’ Jingle Keys to Health Reform

By Sharon Johnson ● Uncategorized ● September 3, 2013

As the Affordable Care Act gets close, younger Americans are being courted by both sides of the debate. Precarious finances–rather than opposition to paying for older people’s health care–could stop many from signing up.

Breasts and Angelina Jolie

By Womens Enews Staff ● Arts & Culture ● May 16, 2013

By Liza Donnelly, http://lizadonnelly.com/

Migration Has Bright Spots for Girls, Female Teens

By Hajer Naili ● Employment ● May 14, 2013

Sex trafficking and exploitative employers are serious hazards. But a May 14 report also finds that families free daughters from early marriage when households depend on them for remittances.

Somalia’s FGM Rate Drops; Girl, 5, Raped in India

By WeNews Staff ● Uncategorized ● April 19, 2013

Female genital mutilation is dropping in Somalia. Meanwhile, a 5 five-year-old was battling for her life on Friday after being brutally raped in New Delhi, India’s capital.