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Children: Victims Not Criminals
A bill sits on Governor Jerry Brown’s desk designed to address the sex trafficking of children in California. While many people have joined the cause to fight sex trafficking abroad, few realize...
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Shifting towards Justice: Non-Criminalization of Child Sex Trafficking Victims
During the 2016 legislative sessions this year, at least 10 states have introduced legislation that would protect a child from being blamed for their own commercial sexual exploitation, meaning that prostitution offenses...
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Society’s Persistent Misconception: Women Sell Sex Because They Should and Men Buy Sex Because They Can
Commercial sexual exploitation can be viewed, simply, as a two-part system: supply and demand. Under an economic theory, supply (prostituted persons) follows demand (purchasers of sex). In theory, one would surmise that...
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Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Briefing – Human Trafficking
Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Briefing In Conjunction With Exodus Cry and Shared Hope International The Demand Factor in the Global Sex Trade: Human Trafficking as a Human Rights Crisis This event...
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Exchanging Food for Sex with Children Amounts to Sex Trafficking
Society is quickly outraged by reports that peacekeepers or aid workers have sexually exploited children in areas of conflict or developing regions. This year, reports surfaced that peacekeepers in the Central African...
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