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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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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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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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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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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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Tragedy in Short Creek
Posted on Wednesday, September 16 th, 2015 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.by Brenda Nicholson, former FLDS As I have been thinking about the events that have unfolded in Short Creek over the last few days, there has been a lot on my mind. I can’t seem to stop thinking about it, actually. The tragic loss of life is al...
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What I was when I was FLDS Mormon, and what I am now.
Posted on Monday, September 07 th, 2015 by Voices for Dignity 2 Comments.by Leona Bateman. What I was when I was FLDS Mormon. What I am now and what I have become since I walked away. I was happy being in my little world because I did not realize what I was missing. I was basically told that I was one of the chosen ones a...
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Links between pornography and prostitution
Posted on Sunday, September 06 th, 2015 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.Many people – from politicians and celebrities to exited survivors of prostitution – are outraged at the decision of the prominent human rights group, Amnesty International, to advocate full decriminalisation of prostitution, including sex buyers...
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Demand Abolition: A Brief Review of the Evidence on the Consequences of Legalizing or Decriminalizing Prostitution
Posted on Sunday, August 02 nd, 2015 by Voices for Dignity no Comments.Fact Sheet on Decriminalization Demand Abolition The idea that legalizing or decriminalizing commercial sex would reduce its harms is a persistent myth. Many claim if the sex trade were legal, regulated, and treated like any other profession it would...
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