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The Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2014 has been released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. According to a New York Times article about this report, one-third of human trafficking victims is a child, with the proportion of children among victims rising. Most of these victims are female, with two-thirds of […]

I am alarmed at the amount of violence in our world, particularly that directed toward children. In the US alone, the Children’s Bureau of the US Department of Health and Human Services reported in 2012 (most recent year available) there were 678,810 instances of child maltreatment to unique victims in states reporting, representing 9.2 children […]