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Is This Abuse?
Posted on Wednesday, May 20 th, 2015 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.Abuse is a repetitive pattern of behaviors to maintain power and control over an intimate partner. These are behaviors that physically harm, arouse fear, prevent a partner from doing what they wish or force them to behave in ways they do not want.
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What is Human Trafficking?
Posted on Wednesday, August 06 th, 2014 by Voices for Dignity one Comment.Human trafficking is controlling people by force, threat, coercion, fraud, deception, abuse of power or vulnerability, or money – to exploit them and benefit from their lives. It is heart-wrenching and it could be happening in your neighborho...
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FLDS Evictions
Posted on Sunday, May 21 st, 2017 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.Join Operation Short Creek – Stop judging, start helping! The world has already been bombarded with shocking media about the FLDS (Fundamental Latter-day Saints, or Mormons) in Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona, which collectively make ...
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To fight sex trafficking, target the men who buy sex
Posted on Thursday, April 27 th, 2017 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.By Melody Hood iStock The Washington Post published this letter to the editor by Alex Trouteaud, our director of public policy and research, on April 24. The national opioid epidemic and youth homelessness are fueling the abuse of children in prost...
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Demand in the news
Posted on Monday, October 24 th, 2016 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.By Tripp Underwood The media has been talking about demand for paid sex lately. A lot. In the past week, we’ve seen a spike in news stories calling out sex buyers for funding the illegal sex trade. Many of these pieces mention the work of D...
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John Schools: A practical, cost-effective way to reduce demand
Posted on Friday, October 14 th, 2016 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.By admin VAN NUYS, CALIFORNIA – Attendees sit in a once a month Johns School offered by the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office in an effort to reduce the demand for prostitution. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images) The first step...
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Major win in the fight against online sex trafficking
Posted on Friday, October 07 th, 2016 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.By admin Attorney General Ken Paxton announces Carl Ferrer’s arrest. Photo: Texas Attorney General’s Office California Attorney General Kamala Harris and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have taken a courageous stand against commercial...
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Shifting The Burden, Sex Trade Survivors Symposium
Posted on Friday, August 26 th, 2016 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.By admin Download (2 pages) The post Shifting The Burden, Sex Trade Survivors Symposium appeared first on Traffic Jamming Blog. …read more Read more here:: Trafficking Jamming
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Cult Attraction is Not a Problem of Logic
Posted on Tuesday, May 31 st, 2016 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.Cult Attraction is Not a Problem of Logic
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Domestic Violence Information
Posted on Tuesday, May 31 st, 2016 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.Many are familiar with the emotional effects of domestic violence, but research has recently exposed the link between domestic violence and chronic illness in women. More information on these findings can be found here: http://www.verizon.com/about/...
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Letter to sex buyers from a Danish survivor of prostitution
Posted on Sunday, May 15 th, 2016 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.By admin Letter to sex buyers from a Danish survivor of prostitution The post Letter to sex buyers from a Danish survivor of prostitution appeared first on Traffic Jamming Blog. …read more Read more here:: Trafficking Jamming
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Sex trade survivors report that decriminalization across-the-board gives pimps more power.
Posted on Wednesday, May 11 th, 2016 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.By admin Liberals must face the reality of what prostitution does to women The post Sex trade survivors report that decriminalization across-the-board gives pimps more power. appeared first on Traffic Jamming Blog. …read more Read more here...
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Adventist cult leaders in Ghana arrested for trafficking, forced marriage of girls
Posted on Wednesday, March 23 rd, 2016 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.Five men and two women were arrested by Ghana Police Service at the Maranatha Adventist Prayer Camp in rural Ahafo Ano District and arraigned last Wednesday (April 10) in an Accra Circuit Court charged with human trafficking and conspiracy, according...
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Why Don’t They Leave?
Posted on Wednesday, March 23 rd, 2016 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.“Why don’t they just leave?” is a question people frequently ask when they hear about cults and human trafficking. Christina Arnold will address this question in-depth based on her personal experience of escaping the infamous Childr...
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Jury finds non-members discriminated against in polygamist town
Posted on Wednesday, March 23 rd, 2016 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.March 7, 2016 Los Angeles Times Nigel Duara Contact Reporter Two border towns run by a polygamist sect violated the constitutional rights of nonbelievers, a jury decided Monday after a dramatic seven-week trial that included testimony from people who...
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The Death of Daria Pionko Shows There is No “Safe” Way to Manage Prostitution
Posted on Wednesday, March 23 rd, 2016 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.Daria Pionko was supposed to be safe. Or safer, anyway. That, at least, was part of the thinking behind the “managed prostitution area” established in the Holbeck area of Leeds in June 2014 and officially announced the following October. It was a...
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Prostitution Survivors Say the Nordic Model is our Only Hope
Posted on Wednesday, March 23 rd, 2016 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.By Meghan Murphy, published March 15, 2016 Survivors say the Nordic model is our only hope People were turned away from a packed, standing-room only panel, addressing the impacts of various prostitution legislation around the world, on Monday...
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Empowerment Shoot Vintage Style!
Posted on Wednesday, March 23 rd, 2016 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.Recently we had an empowerment shoot with young women who left the Kingston polygamist group. In this Voices for Dignity shoot, the girls got their hair and makeup done by Marie Bedolla and Cristina Jacobs, then we all went out to the ghost town of N...
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The Journey Out: Women Who Escaped a Polygamist Mormon Cult Share Their Story
Posted on Saturday, January 09 th, 2016 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.Voices for Dignity mentioned Vice / Broadly article by Molly Oswaks: Although its leader Warren Jeffs is spending life in jail for raping his child brides, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) remains under his incr...
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First Christmas Photos
Posted on Saturday, January 09 th, 2016 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.Here are some of the photos from the ‘First Christmas’ event that Voices for Dignity held in Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona for the former FLDS families there. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .galle...
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Our Event Was in the St. George News
Posted on Sunday, December 20 th, 2015 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.Children and families from Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale — twin cities familiarly known as Short Creek — were treated to a holiday celebration called “The First Christmas,” so named because it was a first for many who are are former mem...
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KUTV Covered Our Christmas Event for ex-FLDS
Posted on Thursday, December 17 th, 2015 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.Hildale, Utah — (KUTV) Wednesday afternoon hundreds of kids in Hildale experienced what’s being called the “First Christmas” in the Polygamist city since the 1980s. A former polygamist woman, Christina Marie from (Las Vegas), is t...
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How Short Creek Lost its Toys
Posted on Wednesday, November 25 th, 2015 by Voices for Dignity one Comment.by Brenda Nicholson | Former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS) ||| December 31, 2011 midnight was the cut off time. If you weren’t found worthy to be included in the United Order, and taken through the ...
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Santa Claus is Coming to an FLDS town ♥︎ to Share Love
Posted on Tuesday, November 17 th, 2015 by Voices for Dignity 2 Comments.On Dec. 22 & 23, 2016, Mrs. Gingerbread (and others!) are bringing Christmas to a town where Christmas has been forbidden, a town filled with children who have never even heard of Santa. Yes, Santa Claus is coming to visit the children in the s...
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Answers to common questions about psychopathy
Posted on Thursday, November 05 th, 2015 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.By psychopathyawareness Recently the translator of my psychopathy blog in Italian, Relazioni Pericolose, has conveyed to me some of the questions that Italian readers have regarding psychopathy. Since I think that these questions are equally re...
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Ridiculing Trafficking Victims
Posted on Thursday, October 15 th, 2015 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.By admin Judith Mirkinson “The daily comics are not known to be bastions of feminist thought but a strip in the San Francisco Chronicle on Saturday September 29, 2012 was particularly egregious. I speak of Tundra by Chad Carpenter which had ...
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Flash Flood Tragedy in Hildale, Ut
Posted on Friday, September 25 th, 2015 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.A community mourns, but fractures remain after Hildale floods kill 12 By NATE CARLISLE | The Salt Lake Tribune Sep 15 2015 Hildale • Washes divide Hildale, Utah, and adjoining Colorado City, Ariz. A big one, called Short Creek Wash, is supposed to ...
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