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Pandemic Lockdowns Aided Predators Worldwide, Especially Online, U.S. Says

WASHINGTON — Predators worldwide took advantage of pandemic restrictions last year to draw more people into forced labor and sex trafficking, including children who spent their days online under government-imposed stay-at-home orders, according to a new State Department report. In India and Nepal, young girls were sold into marriage to help families that otherwise had […] More

by Tonya Frazier July 1, 2021, 4:54 pm
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M, F or X? American Passports Will Soon Have Another Option for Gender.

WASHINGTON — Mary Emily O’Hara has not left the United States in more than three years, waiting to apply for a passport that will allow gender to be marked with an X. O’Hara identifies as nonbinary, or someone who does not consider themselves to be male or female. O’Hara’s driver’s license, issued in Oregon, already […] More

by Tonya Frazier June 30, 2021, 6:35 pm
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Genocide Designation for Myanmar Tests Biden’s Human Rights Policy

WASHINGTON — Three years ago, American investigators produced a 15,000-page analysis of atrocities committed in 2017 against the Rohingya, an ethnic Muslim minority group in Myanmar. The report documented survivors’ accounts of gang rapes, crucifixions, mutilations, of children being burned or drowned and of families locked inside their blazing homes as Myanmar’s military sought to […] More

by Tonya Frazier June 30, 2021, 2:12 pm
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State Dept. Changes Policy for Passport Gender Identification

Americans will be allowed to declare their self-identified gender on their U.S. passports without providing medical documents under a new State Department rule that officials said would be announced on Wednesday, the final day of Pride Month. The shift was the first step toward creating a gender marker on U.S. passports and citizenship certificates for […] More

by Tonya Frazier June 30, 2021, 9:04 am

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