by pskadmin | May 4, 2022 | News
By Sarah Kolick, JD Candidate 2022,The George Washington University Law School*All views expressed in this blog are my own and do not necessarily represent those of the Amara Legal Center. While volunteering with Planned Parenthood’s Get Out the Vote Efforts during...
by pskadmin | Apr 11, 2022 | News
Two alarming incidents have recently come to the Amara Legal Center’s attention. The first concerns a Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) lieutenant who was found to have alleged ties to a white supremacist organization, serious enough to rise to the level of...
by pskadmin | Mar 8, 2022 | News
~ SB664 prevents minors from being prosecuted for prostitution and directs juvenile sex trafficking victims to non-punitive specialized services in Virginia ~ Click HERE to read the original article (March 8, 2022 – Washington, DC) Commercially sexually exploited...
by pskadmin | Jan 6, 2022 | News
Click HERE to read the original article By Carole Bernard “Grooming” is a standard practice for many sex traffickers. It is often the main tool in the trafficker’s arsenal to lure individuals with love, friendship, and affection into a life of exploitation. The myth...
by pskadmin | Dec 9, 2021 | News
Click HERE to read the original articleBy Carole Bernard Last week, a New York jury found R&B singer R. Kelly guilty of sex trafficking, along with separate charges of racketeering, including acts of bribery and sexual exploitation of a child. Survivors’ voices...
by pskadmin | Jul 27, 2021 | News
WMATA’s Proposed Policy Rule Changes Could Disproportionately Harm Marginalized Populations in the DMV Area~Survivors of Sex Trafficking, Sex Workers, LGBTQIA+, and Trans Women and Women of Color Face the Disparate Implementation of the New Policy~ Click HERE to...
