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Resources for Human Trafficking Awareness Day

This Saturday, January 11, is Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Human trafficking is modern-day slavery – the recruitment, harboring, transporting, providing or obtaining by any means any person for forced labor, slavery or servitude in any industry or site such as … Continue reading

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Orange Day at White Plains Presbyterian Church

Name: Orange Day at White Plains Presbyterian Church Description: On November 25, 2012, White Plains Presbyterian Church, New York, celebrated Orange Day and the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Pictured above, the congregation gathered in orange … Continue reading

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The Woman on the Road to Jericho

16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence By Rachel Halder, creator of Our Stories Untold   Walking down a noisy Oakland, CA, street on my way to do some writing at a coffee shop, I heard a woman weeping as … Continue reading

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Stopping Violence Against Women in South Sudan

Sunday, November 25, is the United Nations’ International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. It is also this month’s Orange Day. Unbound is pleased to share with you two stories from the Nonviolent Peaceforce, an unarmed paid civilian … Continue reading

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