DHS Launches Promising Campaign to Fight Human Trafficking
Last week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano launched Blue Campaign, an agency-wide initiative strengthening anti-trafficking efforts through raising public awareness, offering victim assistance programs, and providing training for law enforcement officials. Focusing on the Four Ps, Protection, Public awareness, Prosecution, and Partnerships, DHS will be taking a “victim-centered approach,” said Alice [...]
Babies: Too Cute for Words?
I must admit: I wasn’t readying the pram brigade to watch the screening of “Babies”. Don’t get me wrong… I love babies and spent much of my earlier years babysitting children and babies, but contrary to the hype of über-cuteness, my babysitting experience has awakened me to the realities of babydom. Aside from some enchanting [...]
Proposed ILO Convention Could Protect Migrant Domestic Workers’ Rights
“They tell us we don’t have rights and want us to beg at their feet. There are often day-to-day threats: ‘If you go out on the streets, they will kill you,’” said Antonia Pena, domestic worker and leader of Casa de Maryland, at a panel discussion last month at American University Washington College of Law. [...]
