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The Coercion of Trafficked Workers
Posted on Monday, February 11 th, 2013 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.Theories of coercion exist across multiple disciplines to explicate the ability of one actor, the coercer, to diminish the free will of another, the coercee, in the absence of overt physical force. A valid claim of coercion places legal blame on the ...
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Cogwebs
Posted on Saturday, February 09 th, 2013 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.“The ideas that we acquire from the world around us, or build when links form between previously unrelated cogwebs, forms thread in a rich tapestry woven by the enchanted loom, the human brain.” This poetic metaphor is from the physiolo...
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Voices For Dignity – Awareness Campaign
Posted on Monday, February 04 th, 2013 by Voices for Dignity 3 Comments.On Sunday Feb. 17 2013, models, make-up artists, hair stylists, and photographers will be volunteering their time and talent to create artistic, royalty-free photography to encourage bloggers, journalists and other media outlets to write more stories...
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The Power of Survivor Voices on Human Trafficking Awareness Day
Posted on Wednesday, January 30 th, 2013 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.By U. Tatunchak On a cold and rainy Friday, legislators, community organizations, government officials, social service agencies, and concerned citizens convened on the front steps of the State House in Trenton, N.J., on January 11th , National Human...
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Harms of Prostitution, Some Facts.
Posted on Tuesday, January 29 th, 2013 by Voices for Dignity one Comment.Sexual violence and physical assault are the norm for women in all types of prostitution. One Canadian observer noted that ninety-nine percent of women in prostitution were victims of violence, with more frequent injuries “than workers in [those] o...
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Human Trafficking Facts
Posted on Monday, January 28 th, 2013 by Voices for Dignity one Comment.Human Trafficking is COMPELLED SERVICE / EXPLOITATION achieved through force or fraud or coercion. Contrary to popular beliefs, physical force is not the only means of keeping a person in bondage. Chains can be psychological as well. Force Beating...
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This Human Trafficking Awareness Day, Let’s Pass Safe Harbor Laws
Posted on Saturday, January 26 th, 2013 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.By Carolina De Los Rios Tracey’s life changed forever on a walk to the corner store. She was 15 and trying to get a few minutes of peace away from her abusive home. A guy she knew from around the neighborhood pulled up next to her and asked if she...
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Fifty Shades of Sadism: Psychopaths as Lovers
Posted on Saturday, January 26 th, 2013 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.By psychopathyawareness Some of the women who comment about their experiences with psychopaths, as well as many of those interviewed by Sandra L. Brown, M.A. in Women Who Love Psychopaths, state that psychopaths make good lovers. When you read th...
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Profile on Sex Trafficking Victims and Obtaining Self-Sufficiency
Posted on Saturday, January 26 th, 2013 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.By Meredith Owen Policy Fellow Imagine a young girl who has run away from an abusive home and meets a man who promises to take care of her. He gives her food, shelter, and love. As this relationship develops, this man alters his role from caretaker ...
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The NHTRC Turns 5! Celebrating Five Years of Connection and Support
Posted on Saturday, January 26 th, 2013 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.By Sarah Jakiel Sarah Jakiel, Deputy Director: At 8:32am on Wednesday December 7th, 2007, Polaris Project answered the first phone call on the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline. The night before, I hadn’t slept terribly well – k...
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Can Science Make Facebook More Compassionate?
Posted on Saturday, January 26 th, 2013 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.Facebook is confronting cyberbullying and online conflict. Can a team of researchers help boost kindness among the site’s 900 million users?
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How to Increase Your Compassion Bandwidth
Posted on Saturday, January 26 th, 2013 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.Research suggests we can actually expand our compassion bandwidth without hurting ourselves. As the science of compassion develops, we can find empirically supported ways to cultivate and sustain compassion when it is needed the most.
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Kindness Makes You Happy… and Happiness Makes You Kind
Posted on Saturday, January 26 th, 2013 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.GREATER GOOD | Kindness may have a profound, long-lasting effect on our happiness, according to the second study, published online in the Journal of Happiness Studies in April and conducted by researchers at Harvard Business School and the University...
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A Business That Helps Prostitutes Bloom In Recovery
Posted on Saturday, January 12 th, 2013 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.“Prostitution demands a horrible powerlessness most people don’t see.” Becca Stevens For prostitutes looking to get drug free and off the streets, the Magdalene program in Nashville, Tenn., provides a model for healing. Magdalene of...
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Human Trafficking and Prostitution
Posted on Friday, January 11 th, 2013 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.by Melissa Farley, Ph.D. Prostitution is an institution akin to slavery, one so intrinsically discriminatory and abusive that it cannot be fixed–only abolished. At the same time, its root causes must be eradicated as well: sex inequality, racis...
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Portia’s Voice
Posted on Wednesday, January 02 nd, 2013 by Voices for Dignity one Comment.I don’t know where to start this story. I don’t know how to pick up the pieces of my life that are strewn all over the place. I want to scream at the top of my lungs but my voice and my basic fundamental natural inclinations as a woman have been ...
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The Psychopath as Self-Proclaimed Maverick: On Losers who View Themselves as Leaders
Posted on Tuesday, August 28 th, 2012 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.By psychopathyawareness Psychopaths are Losers who view themselves as Leaders. As we’ve seen, unless there’s a specific advantage for him, a psychopath never admits to being wrong, to doing wrong, to having wronged anyone. Whatever h...
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Psychopaths and Stalking
Posted on Tuesday, April 17 th, 2012 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.By psychopathyawareness Paradoxically, psychopaths are egomaniacs without pride. Their shamelessness, lack of boundaries and hunger for control often leads them to relentlessly pursue individuals who don’t want them, and who repeatedly rej...
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The Psychopath’s Poison Containers
Posted on Wednesday, April 11 th, 2012 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.By psychopathyawareness image by Christian Coigny As everyone who has been involved with a psychopath knows, building a romantic relationship with such a pathological person is like building a house on a foundation of quicksand. Everything shif...
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Our Strongest Chains: The Power of Denial
Posted on Thursday, April 05 th, 2012 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.By psychopathyawareness The Powers of Denial Sometimes we become involved with disordered personalities because they have a compelling mask of sanity: they hide effectively their deviant natures and abnormal behavior. But we’ve also seen ...
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Review of Donna Andersen’s Red Flags of Love Fraud: Information and Insight
Posted on Monday, April 02 nd, 2012 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.By psychopathyawareness Red Flags of Love Fraud Donna Andersen, the author of Love Fraud the book and the website/support group Lovefraud.com, has recently published a new book, called Red Flags of Love Fraud: Ten Signs You’re Dating ...
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The Insatiable Longing for Love
Posted on Saturday, March 24 th, 2012 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.By psychopathyawareness Psychopathic seducers, as social predators, target countless victims. But they attach like parasites, for a long time, to comparatively few: only to their most promising hosts. I think that promising victims give off a sc...
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How the Psychopath Manufactures Our Emotions by Peace
Posted on Wednesday, March 21 st, 2012 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.By psychopathyawareness * Note: This article is written by a friend who goes by the pseudonym “Peace” During a relationship with a psychopath, we are likely to experience a range of emotions that we’ve never felt before: extreme je...
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Don’t Give the Psychopath too Much Importance
Posted on Saturday, March 17 th, 2012 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.By psychopathyawareness Lurking in the Shadows As absolute narcissists, all psychopaths think they’re extremely important. To them, the universe revolves around them and their needs. Everyone around them is either a target they will try t...
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