ND Legislature votes to strengthen Human Trafficking Commission, raise awareness following Holmberg case

Letter: Abuse victims need all of us to speak up

To the editor, Child sexual abuse is a crime that steals childhoods and impedes relationships long into adulthood and those who experience it are our society’s most vulnerable. As an organization whose mission is to end violence in two generations, we at the Community Violence Intervention Center (CVIC) are, as many others, outraged by how former guidance counselor and former state Sen. Ray Holmberg used his positional power to set up, prolong a…

ND Legislature votes to strengthen Human Trafficking Commission, raise awareness following Holmberg case

BISMARCK — The North Dakota Legislature is looking for more ways to educate the public about detecting human trafficking and child abuse through a bill that would strengthen the Human Trafficking Commission. Human trafficking is an umbrella term used to describe a crime in which a person or group of people manipulate, mentally or physically, another person to provide labor, commercial sex acts or other involuntary services. House Bill 1308 would…

The indictment hearing was held this Thursday afternoon in the Federal Court of Bariloche. 20 women and two men were found. What the judge decided remains absolutely secret.

The van that shielded students from human trafficking

From A Nun's Life podcasts - Young women in India trying to get a good education were falling prey to human traffickers. The nuns discuss how the sisters confronted the issue.