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• Google Adult Content Ads - New Policy

  Authors: CATW International

  We congratulate Google for their corporate responsibility in addressing the promotion of ads that could lead to human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation, especially of women and girls.  For more information, please click here. Read More...

• The Somaly Mam Story: What We Still Know About Sex Trafficking

  Authors: Taina Bien-Aimé, The Huffington Post

  For those of us who know and have worked with Somaly Mam throughout the years, the Newsweek cover story about her alleged fabrications shocked and saddened us. If the accusations are true, we don't know why Somaly, who commanded love and affection, would have stretched the truth so far. Some have asked whether it matters at the ... Read More...

• FGM Survivor Jaha Dukureh Speaks Out and Takes Action!

  Authors: CATW International

  CATW is Safe Hands for Girls' fiscal sponsor, so if you would like to contribute to Safe Hands for Girls, please click here and specify that your tax-deductible contribution is for Safe Hands for Girls. CATW is also mobilizing people to help support Jaha Dukureh's grassroots campaign to end FGM in the United State... Read More...

• O Canada! Will You Free Your Glorious Land of Prostitution?

  Authors: Taina Bien-Aimé, The Huffington Post

  A daughter of the First Nation Ojibwe, Bridget Perrier was born in Long Lake #58 in Northern Ontario. Given up by parents unable to care for her, Bridget was placed in a welcoming home with five other children. In that house, a family friend raped Bridget. Her behavior subsequently became so disruptive that a social worker counseled her fost... Read More...

• France Takes First Steps Towards Abolition of Prostitution

  Authors: Taina Bien-Aime, CATW, Huffington Post

  While authoring Les Miserables, the celebrated Victor Hugo wrote in 1862 that despite affirmations slavery had vanished from European civilization, it still existed -- as prostitution imposed on women. In December 2013, the French Assembly finally heeded its lionized sage and overwhelmingly passed a bill imposing stiff fines on sex buyers... Read More...