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Appointee on Women’s Issues Supports Legal Prostitution
Senate Democrats voted to confirm President Joe Biden’s nominee for Ambassador-At-Large for Global Women’s. The vote was close and partisan.
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Biden Admin Moves to Decriminalize Prostitution
Sources within the Biden administration have confirmed “an insidious creep toward pro-prostitution positions,” according to anti-trafficking advocates. This “creep” was visible in UN negotiations earlier this year as well as…
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UN Women Takes Neutral Position on Criminalization of Prostitution
The UN agency for women recently announced its neutrality on whether prostitution should be criminalized.
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Five Best Moments of the Year 2018 for Life and Family at the UN
There have many important moments in 2018 for the pro-life cause internationally, maybe even epochal shifts. Only history can tell.
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The Sometimes-Impenetrable Way Problems are Attempted at the UN
UN issues, and UN documents are highly complicated and almost impossible for laymen and even experts to follow.
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Capitol Hill Event Examines Intersection Between Human Trafficking and Health
Washington, D.C., May 18 (C-Fam) Women and girls trafficked for sex suffer a wide range of physical health problems resulting from repeated acts of violence and rape, and bear an…
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Sex Traffickers Shutting Down Websites After Congress Passes Law
Many websites are shutting down or curtailing their sex trade just weeks after the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives passed similar anti-human trafficking bills that would allow victims to sue the websites on which they were bought and sold.
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Despite Big Tech Resistance U.S. House Passes Bill to Allow Prosecution of Trafficking Websites
An ever-growing outcry from lawmakers, civil society, survivors and activists prompted the passing of an anti-trafficking bill on Tuesday in the House of Representatives ending impunity for websites that participate in sexually exploiting women and girls.
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UNICEF Consultant Sexually Assaulted Boy for Years
Longtime UN consultant for children’s rights Peter Newell was convicted of sexually assaulting and sodomizing a child over the course of three years beginning in 1965.
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Oxfam Scandal Part of Wider Sexual Abuse Cover-up
The elite UK-based aid organization Oxfam has admitted to hosting lavish parties and hiring prostitutes for humanitarian aid workers in Haiti in the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake.
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Under Pressure, Tech Giants Drop Opposition to Anti-Trafficking Bill
A bill to protect minor girls from sex traffickers who sell them online is a step closer to becoming law after Google and other giant tech companies reversed course this week and dropped opposition.
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UN Event Names and Shames Purveyors of Child Rape, Trafficking
“Decriminalization of prostitution is the most monstrous, preposterous, counterproductive act we could possibly conceive,” a prostitution survivor declared at a UN high-level meeting on human trafficking yesterday.
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The Myth of “Sex Work” Named and Shamed.
Did you know that AIDS groups have used—and continue to use—their (your) money to advocate for prostitution? If you did not, or even if you did, there is a new…
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Google Attempts to Block Bill to Hold Sex-Traffickers Accountable
Google and the tech lobby are working to derail the passage of a bill to protect girls from online sex traffickers.
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UN Member States Commit to Empower Women, and Mothers, When “Experts” Won’t
At UN Headquarters this week, UN Member States committed their governments to protecting women’s rights but in an unusual change of emphasis, focused largely on their roles as mothers and caregivers and avoided the usual controversial issues.
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New Human Trafficking Foundation May Support Abortion and Prostitution
Conservative human rights groups are increasingly alarmed about a new funding proposal to combat human trafficking around the world.
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Trafficking Survivors Tell UN: Strengthen Families To Protect Women and Girls
Women who were trafficked or mistreated for their reproductive organs told the UN this week that to successfully combat modern-day slavery, countries must respect and empower the family.
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Egg Trafficking and Rented Wombs: UN Learns How Not to Make Babies
Every seat in the UN auditorium was filled, with a waiting line outside, to hear about making babies. “Online baby making, buying and selling eggs, renting wombs,” said Jennifer Lahl. “We no longer beget our children, we make our children, we build our families.”
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