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Kaiser Health News
The woman arrived at the emergency department at Huntington Hospital on New York’s Long Island after she was hit by her boyfriend during an argument. Her situation raised concerns among the medical staff, which had recently been trained to be on the lookout for signs of sex trafficking.
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The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the bipartisan Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development Act of 2017 (H.R. 959), which the nation’s nursing organizations see as critical to our ability to educate the next generation of nursing leaders who will transform health in every community. H.R. 959 amends Title VIII of the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) to reauthorize nursing workforce development programs, which support the recruitment, retention, and advanced education of skilled nursing professionals. The bill extends advanced education nursing grants to support clinical nurse specialists and clinical nurse leaders, defines nurse-managed health clinics, and reauthorizes loan repayments, scholarships, and grants for education, practice, quality, and retention.
Kaiser Health News
Mission Health, the largest hospital system in western North Carolina, provided $100 million in free charity care last year. This year, it has partnered with 17 civic organizations to deliver substance abuse care to low-income people.
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The Huffington POst
Amanda Nguyen is not like most people her age.
The 26-year-old activist is fundamentally changing how the American criminal justice system approaches sexual violence and the survivors of those crimes. In 2014 ― at the age of 23 ― Nguyen founded Rise, a national civil rights nonprofit that focuses on protecting the liberties of sexual assault victims.
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CNN
Spain may soon join a list of countries to make "yes means yes" the legal standard in sexual encounters.
Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Carmen Calvo signaled her intent to introduce legislation that would require clearly expressed consent in sexual contact. The concept is often referred to as affirmative consent, in which both parties agree to sexual conduct, either through clear, verbal communication or nonverbal cues or gestures.
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The Huffington Post
Italy’s highest court, the Court of Cassation, ruled this week that two men convicted of rape last year be granted a retrial because their victim willingly drank alcohol on the night she was assaulted.
The two men were initially acquitted of rape in 2011 by a district court but were retried on an appeal and convicted in 2017, The Guardian reports. The assailants, both in their 50s, were each sentenced to three years in prison for the assault, which took place in 2009 after the three ate a meal together.
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NBC News
For three decades, authorities in Fort Wayne, Indiana, had the DNA of the man who murdered 8-year-old April Tinsley in April 1988, but could not find him.
Police pleaded for leads, and chased them. They brought in FBI profilers, enlisted state and federal agents and went on “America’s Most Wanted.” The detectives initially assigned to the case retired and were replaced by younger ones, who also retired without an arrest.
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The New York Times
It was an early morning in May when Maria was released from the T. Don Hutto Residential Detention Center in Texas. She had been granted bond and was permitted to stay with her brother in Washington, D.C. while her asylum case was pending.
After gathering her belongings, she was escorted to a loading area fenced with razor wire and placed into a cage inside a van.
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USA Today
The Pentagon is delaying release of a report by the nonpartisan RAND Corp. that rates the risk of sexual assault for troops by military base, according to Defense Department officials.
The report relied on surveys of troops and data from 2014 that have underpinned several previous reports from RAND. It was supposed to have been released months ago.
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Belleville News-Democrat
Jackie Flanagan has treated more than 100 victims of sexual assault, everything from violent rape to the inappropriate touching of children.
It’s not an easy job.
“When I get done with a case, I am emotionally drained,” said Flanagan, a night charge nurse in the emergency room at Memorial Hospital in Belleville.
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Wired
Last year, as thousands of women shared their stories of sexual assault and harassment with the hashtag #MeToo, Amanda, a 30-year-old from Oregon, was looking for a supportive place to share her own experiences. Soon enough she was invited by a friend to join a Facebook group for survivors of sexual assault that had thousands of members.
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USA Today
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline saw calls double from 2014 to 2017, an increase that coincides with rising suicide rates in the USA.
The lifeline answered more than 2 million calls in 2017, up from 1 million calls in 2014, according to its latest figures. More than 1.5 million calls reached the prevention network in 2015 and again in 2016.
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CNN
A report on modern slavery around the world has found that the number of slaves in developed nations, including the United States and United Kingdom, is much higher than previously thought.
The Global Slavery Index is published annually by the Walk Free Foundation. Last year, the Walk Free Foundation worked with the International Labor Organization to produce a report that estimated there were 40.3 million slaves worldwide, but didn't give figures for individual countries.
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NPR
India has ordered its state governments to inspect child care facilities run by the Missionaries of Charity — the Roman Catholic order founded by Mother Teresa — after arrests of a nun and a worker accused of baby trafficking.
Earlier this month, Indian authorities shut down a shelter home for pregnant, unmarried women run by the order in Ranchi, a city in the eastern state of Jharkhand, after discovering that four infants had been sold, including a 6-month-old boy who changed hands for 50,000 rupees ($730).
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Kaiser Health News
Dr. Nick Nelson walks through busy Highland Hospital to a sixth-floor exam room, where he sees patients from around the world who say they have fled torture and violence.
Nelson, who practices internal medicine, is the medical director of the Highland Human Rights Clinic, part of the Alameda Health System. A few times each week, he and his team conduct medical evaluations of people who are seeking asylum in the United States.
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