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The theme of this year’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month campaign is Prevention is Possible. This April we hope to share the message that we can all stop sexual violence before it happens by addressing the root causes and social norms that allow it to exist.

“It’s really hard for women who don’t know anything or don’t have a place to call home,” Grace said. “And these women have no family at all.”

The Sinclair School of Nursing has implemented the training to get students comfortable with showing empathy and asking difficult questions with sensitivity. The training is part of the curriculum for both undergraduate and graduate students, Lea Wood, director of simulation, said.

Sen. Patty Pansing Brooks’ bill (LB843) was amended before it was advanced to final reading to set up a process for a person who is charged with prostitution to file a motion to dismiss the charge if a victim of human trafficking.

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – Many Tampa Bay Lightning players join their wives and girlfriends for a fashion show designed to raise money to benefit a local women’s domestic violence shelter. Bolts Better Halves Fashion with a Cause is an evening of cocktails, dinner and a fashion show that will feature many of the Bolts Better Halves.

NAIROBI, March 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – One in four internally displaced persons (IDP) surveyed in Kenya has been a victim or witness of human trafficking, the majority lured to the Middle East but then forced to do menial work or sexually exploited, an anti-trafficking charity said on Tuesday.