Sunday, May 4, 2014

US laws to stop jailing child sex-trafficking victims expand but funding to help victims falls short

Source: Thompson Reuters Foundation

Author: Stella Dawson

WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation)--Over the past five years, 12 states in America have passed laws to stop treating young girls and boys arrested for prostitution as criminals but as victims of commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking, a shift that is starting to bring the United States into line with human rights’ norms in Europe.


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