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While there are encouraging examples of individuals, organizations and states that have taken steps to raise awareness of and combat human trafficking, more needs to be done.
A series of bills that would protect women’s rights in New York state are being reintroduced into the Senate. Also this week, the pregnant woman sentenced to death in Sudan is being shackled.
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“The GIFT Box,” a sidewalk exhibit about the dangers of human trafficking, has been on display in New York in the week leading up to the Super Bowl on Sunday, being held a few miles away in New Jersey.
Texans are protesting Gov. Rick Perry’s efforts to pass an abortion bill. But sex assaults have returned to Cairo’s Tahrir Square amid the renewed protests.
Thousands of young women each year are lured into Kathmandu’s booming and unregulated sex industry that operates out of cafes and bars. Many arrive with hopes of saving money and going home, but the wages are often too meager for that to ever happen.
Malawi President Joyce Banda (left) and Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf at a women’s rights event.
A Filipina trafficked by a Kuwaiti diplomat spoke out last week about her abuse. A New York advocacy group that helped her win a settlement is staging a Sept. 21 demonstration to prod her country’s U.S. consulate to help victims like her.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan
Credit: Steve Petteway, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States, Talk Radio News Service on Flickr, under Creative Commons.
Since the U.S. invasion of Iraq thousands of women and girls have been trafficked for sexual exploitation, finds a report published today by the London-based Social Change Through Education in the Middle East.