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All the People Living with Invisible Illness

August 13, 2021August 13, 2021Elizabeth Endara
All the People Living with Invisible Illness
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For all the people living with invisible illness: you’re not alone. As a sufferer of a progressive but invisible disease, I often pause at the standard box on forms saying: Are you disabled? Am I? If I look at my Read More

Girls Just Want to Have Funds: Equal Pay for Women

July 21, 2021July 15, 2021Elizabeth Endara
Girls Just Want to Have Funds: Equal Pay for Women
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Queens! What if I told you that you were being robbed?! From the moment you start working, there is a strong chance that you’ve been underpaid for the work you’ve done. Not because you are underqualified. Not because you are Read More

Myths About Sexual Assault Need to be Debunked Now

July 8, 2021July 6, 2021Elizabeth Endara
Myths About Sexual Assault Need to be Debunked Now
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We hear of sexual assault scandals and historic abuse cases so often that our society has almost become numb to them, especially after the ‘Me Too’ movement in 2017. While it is an issue that is talked of more openly Read More

World Day Against Trafficking

July 4, 2021July 6, 2021Elizabeth Endara
World Day Against Trafficking
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Many readers are now familiar with the name Jeffrey Epstein.  Thanks in large part to the laser-focused investigative journalism of Julie K. Brown from the Miami Herald, Epstein, a wealthy former hedge fund manager, was recently arrested on sex trafficking Read More

The 5 Biggest Sex Trafficking Myths Debunked

June 30, 2021July 6, 2021LiveYourDream.org
The 5 Biggest Sex Trafficking Myths Debunked
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We might have actor Liam Neeson to thank for getting us riled up about sex trafficking. After all, as the very angry father of a young woman kidnapped to be sold as a sex slave in the Taken (2008) film Read More

How Women Become Vulnerable to Human Trafficking

June 29, 2021July 6, 2021Elizabeth Endara
How Women Become Vulnerable to Human Trafficking
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Human trafficking occurs all around the world, and in each and every one of the 50 United States. It is estimated that there are over 40 million global victims and hundreds of thousands in the United States. While the United Read More

How Foster Care Youth Become Human Trafficking Victims

June 28, 2021July 6, 2021Elizabeth Endara
How Foster Care Youth Become Human Trafficking Victims
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There are over 400,000 kids in the United States child welfare system, more commonly known as foster care.  These children and teens typically face myriad barriers, such as the lack of a permanent and stable family, and limited access to Read More

How Does Sex Trafficking Happen?

June 22, 2021July 6, 2021Nadia
How Does Sex Trafficking Happen?
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You may think that human trafficking happens somewhere far away and to people much different from yourself. But the truth is: human trafficking exists in every country in the world, and possibly even in your hometown. In the United States, Read More

Broadening Our Women’s Issues Advocacy to the LGBTQIA+ Community

June 21, 2021June 17, 2021Elizabeth Endara
Broadening Our Women’s Issues Advocacy to the LGBTQIA+ Community
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Why we must make efforts to extend our love and advocacy to the LGTBQIA+ community.  Broadening the Initiative  Each year we celebrate Pride Month to recognize the hardships that the LGBTQIA+ community face as they struggle for acceptance and equality. Read More

A Crisis Within A Crisis: The Disparate Experience of Refugee Women

June 20, 2021June 18, 2021Elizabeth Endara
A Crisis Within A Crisis: The Disparate Experience of Refugee Women
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Today is World Refugee Day, an internationally recognized day for a crisis that has swelled the corners of the world and is proliferating every day. The word “refugee” stems from the French word réfugié, originally referring only to Protestants who Read More

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