Learn About Domestic Violence Within Forced Marriages
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Help raise awareness by learning about forced marriage, a form of domestic violence and human trafficking.
Montgomery County Anti-Human Trafficking Coalition
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“Our mission aims to raise awareness about human trafficking and to provide a network of service providers to identify victims and meet their needs.”
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In Search of Freedomville
In a tiny speck of a village in Uttar Pradesh, India, a community of rock quarry miners have given their cluster of thatched roofed houses the name Azad Nagar. Freedomville. The miners named their village in 2000, only a few months after they staged a slave revolt that overthrew the profit-driven landowners who had held their families in slavery in rock quarries for generations. If you search for Azad Nagar on a map, you won’t find it. To everyone else, it’s called Sonbarsa. Located in the poorest province in one of the poorest countries in the world, Sonbarsa is a barren, rocky, plot of land in the middle of one of the most densely populated states in the world.
Human Trafficking is a Health Care Professional Issue
Children being sold for sex or “prostituted” need to be recognized and identified as victims of child abuse.