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High rates of sex trafficking and sexual violence against Indigenous women and girls have been an ongoing problem with very little improvement occurring. Historically, Native American women have been left out of the conversation regarding sex trafficking and sexual violence that has disproportionately served minority populations, especially ...
The National Indigenous Women's Resource Center (NIWRC) is a nonprofit organization that provides health resources to Native American women and also advocates for women's health, housing, and domestic violence support. [1] [2] [3] The organization was founded and is led by Native American women. [4]
DeliverFund, a nonprofit intelligence organization that leverages cutting-edge technology in the fight against human trafficking in the US. Devatop Centre for Africa Development, a nonprofit organization in Nigeria with focus on combating human trafficking, gender-based violence, and child abuse; and providing educational support to vulnerable ...
In 2021, more than 16,500 likely victims of human trafficking were identified by the National Human Trafficking Hotline, according to the Polaris Project, a national human trafficking awareness ...
In particular, sexual exploitation remains a serious issue, with 43% of sex trafficking cases involving Native Hawaiian girls trafficked in Waikīkī, O‘ahu, according to a report from the ...
Indigenous scholars emphasize the need for community healing and traditional practices to heal the collective traumas, and experiences of sexual violence, enacted through settler colonialism. The English people who came to North America promoted "proper" sex, meaning the purpose of sex was reproduction.
The Indigenous Women's Network (IWN) is a nonprofit organization that provides a platform for Indigenous women in the Western Hemisphere. [1] The organization was founded in 1985. [ 2 ] IWN focuses on Native women, their families and communities and attempts to help them have sovereignty over themselves and their environment. [ 3 ]
A roadside historical marker near Clear Lake describes the mass killing of Indigenous people, mostly women and children, by U.S. soldiers in 1850. ... raping women and youths, trafficking children ...