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…
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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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