‘Women are routinely discredited’: How courts fail mothers and children who have survived abuse
Burdened by the high cost of legal help and penalized by courts that favor fathers, women risk losing children to abusive partners
Filipino children abandoned to internet sex abusers during coronavirus
Online sexual exploitation of children in the Philippines has soared since COVID-19 began, while lockdown has robbed them of safe havens.
Coronavirus: Over 200% Surge In Links To Child Abuse Material Posted Online
Teams of undercover investigators tasked with identifying and removing webpages containing child abuse material have reported a massive spike.
Coronavirus Locks Down the Philippines, but Children Face Threat of Online Abuse
Wearing pajamas and a pair of plastic slip-on shoes, the 12-year-old girl crouched in a doorway and texted a friend to say she’d run away. It was raining, and the mud stuck to her flip-flops…
Bangladesh’s Child Marriage Problem Is the World’s Human Trafficking Crisis
Approximately 52 percent of girls in Bangladesh are coerced into marriage as children and left without the support they need to protect themselves.
How a Miami Judge Pioneered a New Way of Handling Minor Human Trafficking Cases
Judge Maria Sampedro-Iglesias established the GRACE Court, one of the first trauma-informed courts for juvenile survivors of human trafficking.