by pskadmin | Oct 31, 2017 | News
As Capitol Hill backslides into dysfunction and bickering, the capital city is taking matters into its own hands to get work done: Washington, DC, might soon be the first US city to fully decriminalize sex work. With a progressive bill to overhaul the current...
by pskadmin | Oct 29, 2017 | News
SummaryThe Amara Legal Center provides free legal services to both survivors of sex trafficking and to sex workers. In approaching the debate on the decriminalization of prostitution and related crimes, Amara supports legislative reforms to prevent our clients from...
by pskadmin | Oct 26, 2017 | News
What’s your background?My passion for this work began at an internship for Veronica’s Voice, an organization assisting women in the commercial sex industry, when I was a freshman in college. My experiences there led to a year in Prague, Czech Republic building a...
by pskadmin | Oct 25, 2017 | News
The University of Maryland Support, Advocacy, Freedom and Empowerment (SAFE) Center for Human Trafficking Survivors and the Prince George’s County Police Department (PGPD) have received a joint three-year grant totaling more than $1.3 million from the U.S. Department...
by pskadmin | Oct 9, 2017 | News
On September 21, the DC Council Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety held a public hearing to discuss the Trafficking Survivors Relief Amendment Act of 2017. This legislation introduces a very important vacatur statute that would allow human trafficking survivors...
by pskadmin | Oct 9, 2017 | News
On September 18th 2017, the Amara Legal Center and Courtney’s House hosted the book launch of Jessica L Voker’s book “Welcome to the Game: Then She Changed It,” at Busboys at Poets. Jessica, a former client of the Amara Legal Center, has published a riveting...
