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Gender Justice: The sexual abuse to prison pipeline for women and girls

Meredith Varner March 5, 2021
People deserve second chances, support and help. It is time our country gets its humanity back and starts to rehabilitate rather than incarcerate.
Several BU students have reported that missionaries, allegedly from the World Mission Society Church of God, have approached them on campus. PHOTO BY JOHN LITTLE/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

False rumors spread of sex-trafficking by religious solicitors on campus

Armand Manoukian February 19, 2018
Several Boston University students have reported encounters with solicitors from the World Mission Society Church of God, a group that was recently and falsely accused of involvement with human trafficking in Kent, Ohio.
Demand Abolition announced Feb. 4 that Boston will join 10 cities in a campaign to reduce sex trafficking by 20 percent over two years. GRAPHIC BY SAMANTHA GROSS/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston joins campaign against sex trafficking

Samantha J. Gross February 12, 2015

Boston organizations have joined advocates from 10 other cities this week in launching a campaign to reduce demand for commercial sex by 20 percent in two years, according to a Feb. 4 press release. Demand...

EDIT: New York City officials realize true plight of sex workers

Daily Free Press Admin September 26, 2013

The state of New York has announced five new courts will open to begin treating people caught up in sex trafficking like victims or survivors instead of criminals. City officials will begin to take steps...

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