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Originally posted on January 10, 2017, on Polaris Project— “Polaris, a global leader in the fight against human trafficking, issued the following statement tonight as Backpage.com, a long-time facilitator of sex trafficking in the United States, shut down the “adult” section of its website. The move comes hours before a hearing scheduled by the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on … More BREAKING: Backpage Just Shut Down Its Entire U.S. Adult Section

We want to say ‘Thank You Very Much to Seattle Neapolitan pizzeria, Tutta Bella, for being a great partner in 2016 and also agreeing to continue our partnership in 2017 to feed the homeless! Their donation makes it that much possible and enjoyable for us to feed the homeless where Human Rights Society’s staff and volunteers … More Thank You – Tutta Bella!

Originally posted by Emma Batha for Reuters on November 27, 2016— “After escaping years of sexual slavery, Jennifer Kempton could not look in the mirror without being taken back to her dark, traumatic past. On her neck was tattooed the name of one of her traffickers along with his gang’s crown insignia. Above her groin … More Former Sex Slave Helps Women Reclaim Their Branded Bodies with New Tattoos

by LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press, on Wednesday, November 9, 2016— “A Utah trucker who pleaded guilty to keeping women as sex slaves in his semi-trailer as he drove across the country was sentenced Wednesday to 20 years in prison. Timothy Jay Vafeades, 56, sexually assaulted and brutally beat the victims almost daily after trapping them … More Utah Trucker Accused of Keeping Women as Sex Slaves Gets 20 Years

Originally posted by Jesse Temple for ESPN.com on November 8, 2016— “Several University of Wisconsin athletes used their Twitter accounts Monday night to post a statement demanding change in racial inequalities on campus. The message came in the wake of an incident at an Oct. 29 home football game in which two people were involved … More Wisconsin Players Cite Campus Racial Inequalities, Demand Change

Originally posted by Richard Gonzales on NPR.com on November 4, 2016— “Another law enforcement officer will be charged in the ongoing investigation of dozens of San Francisco Bay Area police officers who allegedly had sex with a teen sex trafficking victim. Contra Costa County District Attorney Mark Peterson said he is filing a single misdemeanor charge against … More Another Officer Charged In San Francisco Bay Area Police Sex Scandal

Originally posted on TheCrimson.com by C. RAMSEY FAHS, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER on October 25, 2016 — “In what appears to have been a yearly team tradition, a member of Harvard’s 2012 men’s soccer team produced a document that, in sexually explicit terms, individually assessed and evaluated freshmen recruits from the 2012 women’s soccer team based on … More 2012 Harvard Men’s Soccer Team Produced Sexually Explicit ‘Scouting Report’ on Female Recruits

Originally posted by PRI’s The World on November 3, 2016— “THERE’S NO END IN SIGHT FOR THE PROTESTS OVER THE DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE. This pipeline is being built to carry crude oil from the Bakken oil field in North Dakota to a refinery near Chicago. The Standing Rock Sioux tribe and its supporters say the … More United Nations Heads to North Dakota to Investigate Possible Human Rights Violations

Originally published on http://www.hrw.org on October 3, 2016— “It’s public knowledge that following the 9-11 attacks on the United States, the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) detained and tortured terrorism suspects in secret sites around the world. But new Human Rights Watch research provides disturbing details about CIA torture techniques that have not been … More Human Rights Watch Interview: New CIA Torture Claims

Originally posted on October 6, 2016, on Yahoo News Digest— “State agents have raided the Dallas headquarters of adult classified ad portal Backpage and arrested Chief Executive Officer Carl Ferrer. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton alleges that adult and child sex-trafficking victims had been forced into prostitution through escort ads posted on the site. Paxton … More Backpage.com Raided, CEO Arrested in Texas