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January 2013

2013 Protected Innocence Challenge: State Report Cards on the Legal Framework of Protection for the Nations Children

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The Protected Innocence Challenge is a study of US state law to assist advocates in their work to end domestic minor sex trafficking.
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January 2013

50 Years and Counting: The Unfinished Business of Achieving Fair Pay

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This report shines a light on federal and state policies that can help close the wage gap. It identifies the remaining barriers to achieving fair pay for women and concrete steps that can be taken by federal and state policymakers to ensure that women and their families are not struggling indefinitely to make do with less.
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January 2013

Confronting Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States

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With support from the Department of Justices (DOJ) Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council formed a committee to conduct a study of crimes of sexual exploitation as they affect citizens and lawful permanent residents of the United States under age 18. The committee was asked to recommend strategies for responding to commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors in the United States, new legislative approaches, and a research agenda.
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January 2013

Hanging Out or Hooking Up: Clinical Guidelines on Responding to Adolescent Relationship Abuse - An Integrated Approach to Prevention and Intervention (Second Edition)

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This document focuses on the critical role of the adolescent health care provider in preventing, identifying and addressing adolescent relationship abuse. These guidelines are applicable to providers working in a wide range of settings serving adolescents.
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January 2013

TransVisible: Transgender Latina Immigrants in U.S. Society

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This study seeks to make visible the social and legal barriers that negatively impact the lives of many Trans Latina immigrants.
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January 2013

Rural Domestic and Sexual Abuse Program Advocates: Making a Difference in the Lives of Older Survivors of Abuse

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Document provides rural domestic and sexual abuse service providers with a variety of tools, strategies, and resources to effectively respond to the unique challenges of abuse in later life cases.
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January 2013

Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) Resolution on Effectively Addressing the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Transgender Populations

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This public resolution sponsored by the White House’s Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS highlights the disproportionate impact of HIV on transgender communities and outlines the White House plan to funnel more funding into researching HIV in those communities, providing prevention activities and life-saving, culturally competent care.
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January 2013

A girl's right to learn without fear: Working to end gender-based violence at school

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This plan calls on governments to prioritize actions tied to 8 key principles to ensure that all children can learn free from violence, and that girls benefit from their equal right to education.
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January 2013

Empowering Survivors: Legal Rights of Immigrant Victims of Sexual Assault

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This manual provides information that will be useful to advocates, attorneys, justice, and social services professionals working with and assisting immigrant survivors of sexual assault, as it contains several chapters devoted to immigration law topics.
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January 2013

Familia es Familia

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Labor and Civil Rights Leader Dolores Huerta talks about the importance of family. She says that Latino families are stronger when they are together and the importance of talking about gay & lesbian family members. This short video can be used as a training tool to raise awareness about the importance of honoring equality when working with Latino communities.
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January 2013

How movies teach manhood

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In this TED Talk, Colin Strokes shares personal anecdotes about the role of media in shaping young boys' perceptions of manhood.
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January 2013

The hidden disaster: Domestic violence in the aftermath of natural disaster

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Many countries have reported increases in relationship violence in the wake of disasters. However, there is a research gap on why this happens, and how increased violence may relate to disaster experiences. Women's Health Goulburn North East undertook the first Australian research into this phenomenon, interviewing 30 women and 47 disaster workers in Victoria after the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires.