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  Written by Adam W. Marshall, Esq. Human trafficking is a worldwide scourge whose trail of abused and exploited women, men and children grows every year. Although a global issue, one need not look outside the United States for examples of this horrific practice. Weekly, headlines detail instances of trafficking in this country (these stories were reported during one week in September 2019): A couple was arrested in Pineville, North Carolina, accused of forcing a woman to engage in sex acts with strangers in exchange for money and then beating the woman and her two children when she did not comply with the couple’s demands. In Ohio, 104 people were arrested in a massive human trafficking and internet sex sting. A woman was held against her will and forced to engage in sex acts for money in Ann Arundel County, Maryland, resulting in the arrest of two men. A man was convicted of aggravated human trafficking for forced sexual exploitation, aggravated kidnapping, rape, forcible sodomy, agg

For the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence, 2017 (November 25th — December 10th), we took these photographs to share scenes of Skaramagas, Greece’s largest refugee camp. In Skaramagas,  Footage Foundation  has provided  Her{connect}Her , a digital storytelling and voice program for young refugee, asylee, and migrant women worldwide. Throughout the 16 Days of Activism, Footage continues to advocate for young women displaced by crisis and conflict, raising awareness of their vulnerabilities in respect to gender-based violence, their profound resilience, and the positive impact connection has on their lives and the world. Footage Foundation provided Her{connect}Her in Skaramagas in partnership with the aid organization  Drop in the Ocean . Entrance into Skaramagas is through a gap in the barbed wire fence. The rhythmic squeak of a rusty swing set is often the only sound breaking through early morning silence at the camp. Approximately 3,000 Syrian Arabs, Kurds, Iraqis, and

By Selin Yalcinkaya "I still get discriminated against because of my gender with working professionals. How do you change that embedded behavior in another person? … We have such systemic, centuries-long challenges with race, gender, identity, and inclusion…because we can’t get at these unconscious biases… These are good people that are doing bad things. There’s a spectrum of bad people doing bad things, but there’s a benign layer to this. You only know what you know. Your mental models have been formed when you are a child. So, you see and hear things, and it takes a lot of work to undo that.” — U.S. WebinHERS Participant Gender-based violence (GBV) has become a global pandemic. Defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as acts intended to make women suffer physically, sexually, psychologically, or economically, GBV has not decreased in spite of the attention it draws worldwide. In fact, the WHO estimates that at least 29–31% of women ages 15–24 worldwide have experienced

  Written by Adam W. Marshall, Esq. Image by   Max Böhme   via Unsplash June 2021 marked the first World Refugee Awareness Month since the January 2021 change in presidential administrations in the United States. In prior Footage : Advocacy articles, we explored some of the effects the Trump administration’s policies had on asylum seekers and others attempting entry into the United States through its southern border with Mexico, including the consequences for   families separated at the border . This article will instead take a brief look at how a refugee’s experience may be different under this new administration. It is important to define the terms refugee and asylum. According to the   UN Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees , a refugee is “someone who is unable or unwilling to return to their country of origin owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opini