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“Lakshmi Puri hails the increase of women in parliaments, including in Libya, Algeria and Senegal.

The article reports, “The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women will give more than $8 million in grants to local initiatives in 18 countries to deal with the issue, the UN agency tasked with advancing gender equality announced today.”

The article reports, “Palestinian hip hop pioneers DAM (damrap.com) released a new song and powerful video today taking aim at violence against women.

The article reports, “The Global Freedom Center, which has offices in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., was created by Kelly Heinrich and Kavitha Sreeharsha, attorneys who independently spent much of their careers providing legal services to trafficking victims…The center’s goal, according to its website, is to train 5 million professionals by 2020 to identify and prevent human traffi

The article reports, “Since 2009, Honduras has seen a spike in hate crimes and murders of members of the transgender community. For one Honduran immigrant who is applying for asylum, the fight to stay in the United States could be a matter of life or death.”

The article reports, “Employers in Hawaii are in the midst of implementing one of the nation’s toughest laws protecting workers who are victims of domestic or sexual violence. The law, known as Act 206, requires all employers in the state to provide ‘reasonable safety accommodations’ to workers who are being harassed by their partners and on the job.