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Peak Travel Season: Could You Spot A Human Trafficking Victim?

July 30, 2015 • by Elise Hilton

Peak Travel Season: Could You Spot A Human Trafficking Victim?

Human trafficking victims get moved frequently. It’s one way their traffickers can keep control over them – the victims often have no idea where they are. They can be transported by bus, train, 18-wheelers, and planes. Continue Reading...

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July 30, 2015

If Camille Paglia Is Upset With Planned Parenthood, Things Are Grim

No one can call Camille Paglia an easy person to pidgeon-hole. She’s a feminist, but refers to herself as a dissident one. She’s a professor, an author, a critic. In the late 1990s, she began writing a regular column for Salon (she continues to contribute, but not regularly.) Continue Reading...

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Christians Flee Middle East; Will It Be For Good?

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July 27, 2015

U.S. State Department Releases Trafficking in Persons 2015 Report

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Will City Lighting Put Your Privacy At Risk?

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