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Elite Daily
Some of Hollywood's most outspoken advocates are calling on leaders to take up the issue of sexual assault not just on home soil but on the world at large. A group of celebrities is working to bring forward a UN resolution for rights of sexual assault survivors as early as this year. The campaign, rolled out this week, is led by Rise, a national nonprofit working to pass legislation for sexual assault survivors.
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- July 10 | 2-3:30 p.m. EST (Members Only) — Human Trafficking and Toxicology
- July 12 | 2-3:30 p.m. EST (All are welcome) — The SART Toolkit: tools and resources to facilitate a coordinated team approach to sexual assault
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The Guardian
Women in prisons across the U.S. are being recruited by sex traffickers who force them into prostitution on their release.
A Guardian investigation has found that traffickers are using government websites to obtain personal information including mugshots, release dates and charge sheets to identify potential victims while they are still behind bars.
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WRIC-TV
Governor Ralph Northam signed into law a measure that makes it harder for defendants facing charges for human trafficking to be released on bond.
According to a 2017 report from the National Human Trafficking Hotline, Virginia ranked 15th in the U.S. for the most reported cases of human trafficking.
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WXIA-TV
A man who investigators have connected to at least 15 sexual assault and rape cases has been indicted on the charges when his DNA turned up in a handful of previously untested rape kits.
The Fulton County District Attorney's Office announced that 54-year-old Dandre Shabazz was indicted by a grand jury for a series of sexual assaults that occurred between 2001 and 2005.
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KTUU-TV
Gov. Bill Walker signed a bill Friday that brought Alaska closer to eliminating its long backlog of untested rape kits stored in evidence lockers and sometimes on just shelves and desks around the state.
In a ceremony attended by legislators, state and Anchorage law enforcement officers and advocates for sexual assault victims, Walker declared that the popular bill, House Bill 31, would make life better in Alaska.
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AAFP
In less than a month, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) website will cease operations.
An announcement posted on the NGC website states that "because federal funding through AHRQ will no longer be available to support the NGC," the site will shut down after July 16.
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Independent
“Part of any healing process is talking about the pain,” says Hind Kabawat, a deputy ambassador of the Syrian Negotiation Commission (SNC) in Geneva and women’s rights activist. “No one wants to bring up sexual violence because it’s too huge and too difficult.”
Syria’s civil war is now in its eighth year. The conflict is unlike any other modern war: the deaths of more than 500,000 people and ensuing refugee crisis have shaken the world’s faith in the international humanitarian law and the existing world order.
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The New York Times
George Vander Linde tapped a code into the emergency room’s automated medicine cabinet. A drawer slid open and he flipped the lid, but found nothing inside.
Mr. Vander Linde, a nurse, tried three other compartments that would normally contain vials of morphine or another painkiller, hydromorphone. Empty. Empty. Empty.
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Telesur
A new law redefining sexual relations without consent as rape comes into effect in Sweden on Sunday, after the country was rocked by the #MeToo movement denouncing sexual harassment and assault. Backed by the ruling Social Democrat-Green coalition, the law stipulates that a person has committed rape if they have been part of a sexual act in which the other person has not participated "freely." It is further detailed that consent has to be expressed with "clear words or actions."
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The Intercept
In the mid-2000s, the area surrounding the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota began to undergo a massive transformation after corporations figured out they could access vast wells of oil from the Bakken shale formation using fracking technology. Politicians celebrated as high-paying jobs flooded the area, but women in the community saw a darker side to the boom.
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The Hill
The U.S. added Myanmar to its list of the world's worst human trafficking offenders, saying that the country has subjected hundreds of thousands of displaced Rohingya Muslims and other ethnic minorities to exploitation and used child soldiers.
Myanmar was among five countries that were downgraded from the Tier 2 Watch List to Tier 3 status in the State Department's annual Trafficking in Persons Report.
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The New York Times
When the Golden State Killer case was cracked in April with the help of a genealogist and an open-source ancestry site, many wondered if this was the new frontier of criminal investigations.
This week all signs point to yes.
In the last seven days, genealogical sleuthing techniques that are old to a handful of genealogists but new to most law enforcement have led to arrests in Washington State and Pennsylvania and unearthed a lead in a 37-year-old murder in Texas.
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