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May 3 2018

Iowa Legislators Just Passed One of the Most Restrictive Abortion Bills in the U.S.

Iowa's predominantly Republican legislature passed a bill that would prohibit abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, a significant step toward enacting one of the most restrictive laws of its kind in the United States and one that Republicans hope…

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May 3 2018

Without Family, U.S. Children in Foster Care Easy Prey for Human Traffickers

NEW YORK, May 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Children removed from unfit families and put in foster care are terrifyingly vulnerable to being trafficked, a fact that Amy Andrews knows all too well. 

She spun in and out of…

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May 3 2018

Child Brides Sold into Sex Slavery, Domestic Work, Say Indian Officials

MUMBAI, May 1(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Girls are being trafficked into domestic servitude or sex slavery after their parents illegally marry them off, said officials in the Indian state of Maharashtra on Tuesday. 

Researchers are conducting the state's first…

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May 3 2018

Congo Sex Slavery Conviction Shows Progress Towards Justice - Rights Groups

DAKAR, May 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Democratic Republic of Congo's jailing of a warlord for sexual slavery shows it is cracking down on a longstanding culture of impunity, rights groups and lawyers said on Wednesday. 

A military court…

Apr 26 2018

A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — In a plain brown building sits an office run by the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles, a place for people who have been held accountable for their crimes and duly expressed remorse. 

Just a few…

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Apr 25 2018

The Number of Refugee Children Out of School is Increasing at an Alarming Rate

Amid all the pageantry, hoopla and media circus that is UN week in New York there is always some interesting and substantive work being done on important global issues. Sometimes these issues are not on top of the agenda of…

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Mar 24 2018

U.S. Senate passes bill to penalize websites for sex trafficking

The U.S. Senate passed legislation on Wednesday aimed at penalizing website operators that facilitate online sex trafficking, chipping away at a bedrock legal shield for the technology industry. 

The bill passed the House of Representatives last month and was…

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Mar 23 2018

10 Telling Signs You’re Trapped in an Abusive Relationship

The thing that hurts most about an abusive relationship is realizing that you were tricked into it. Most abusive relationships don’t start out with a black eye. Commonly, they begin just like any other relationship or may seem too good…

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Mar 19 2018

US Mayors Unite to Tackle Affordable Housing Crisis in Cities

Several mayors from across the country -- including Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. -- have joined a coalition to find solutions to the lack of affordable housing in their cities. 

Fourteen mayors and CEOs have joined the Mayors…

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Mar 17 2018

Why Black Women Struggle More With Domestic Violence

Domestic and intimate partner violence (DV/IPV) is a “family secret” in our Black communities. While I’m not suggesting that all Black people think and function in similar enough ways that we could all be labeled simply as one “community,” I…

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Mar 15 2018

Couple Who Housed Children in Desert Shack Get New Home

A Southern California couple found with their three children in a makeshift desert shack said they hope to be reunited with their kids now that they have a house to live in. 

Daniel Panico, 73, and Mona Kirk, 51,…

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Mar 8 2018

Idaho House Rejects Bill to Keep Guns Away from Domestic Abusers

After an emotional debate, the Idaho House on Tuesday narrowly rejected legislation to mirror federal law by barring those convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence against an intimate partner from possessing guns for two years. 

Rep. Melissa Wintrow, D-Boise, the…

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