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| We commemorated Human Trafficking Awareness Day earlier this week with over 125 sisters, associates, friends, and neighbors |
Today is Human Trafficking Awareness Day and The Polaris Project is launching a new petition to help protect and support young
victims of sex trafficking and sexual exploitation.
When minors are involved in commercial sex, they are
kids, not criminals. When a boy is sold for sex by a family member, he
needs services, not a prison sentence. When a girl is trapped by a pimp
who sells her for sex online, she needs protection, not prosecution. Yet,
all too often, these children are still arrested and treated like
criminals.
They are fighting to pass Safe Harbor laws in 2013 to
protect these vulnerable kids. These laws define child victims of sexual
exploitation as kids, not criminals, and provide funding for the services
they so desperately need.
Sign the petition and in honor of National Human Trafficking
Awareness Day, forward this email to 5 friends who don’t know about Safe Harbor
laws.
http://www.change.org/petitions/state-lawmakers-kids-not-criminals-pass-safe-harbor-laws
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