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Rights4Girls Statement on AP decision to drop “child prostitute” “We’ve always known there’s no such thing as a child prostitute and now, thanks to the Associated Press, millions more Americans will know that too. The Associated Press’s decision to...

UN Commission on the Status of Women: Economic and Sexual Violence As Barriers to Sustainable Development On March 17, 2016 Rights4Girls Executive Director participated in a panel discussion entitled Economic and Sexual Violence as Barriers to Sustainable Development: Case...

SxSW Panel Web Trafficked: From Victim to Inmate On Tuesday March 15, 2016, Right4Girls hosted a panel at SXSW in Austin, Texas entitled Web Trafficked: From Victim to Inmate. The panel was moderated by Rights4Girls Executive Director Yasmin Vafa,...

Press Release: No Such Thing LA Launch Marcey Brightwell & Robin Swanson For Immediate Release:  October 21, 2015    NATIONAL “NO SUCH THING” CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED IN LOS ANGELES Los Angeles Sheriff and County Supervisors, Survivors, and Advocates Join National...

No Such Thing as a Child Prostitute Yasmin Vafa / Sacramento Bee Born to a drug-addicted mother, Nikki spent her childhood moving between foster homes and group homes where she experienced repeated sexual and physical violence. At age 14,...

JJDPA reauthorization: An opportunity to dismantle the sexual abuse-to-prison pipeline Yasmin Vafa / The Hill According to experts one in four girls will experience sexual violence before turning 18. Now imagine if instead of providing these children services or...

More than 80 percent of delinquent girls in some states have endured sexual abuse Timothy Williams / New York Times As many as 80 percent of the girls in some states’ juvenile justice systems have a history of sexual...

NEW REPORT: The Sexual Abuse to Prison Pipeline: The Girls’ Story Human Rights Project for Girls proudly releases The Sexual Abuse to Prison Pipeline: The Girls Story, co-authored with Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality and the Ms....

The Truth About Sex Trafficking and why the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act deserves our support In her recent Politico Magazine article, Elizabeth Nolan Brown woefully misrepresents the historic law to combat human trafficking, the Justice for Victims...

Human Trafficking Survivors Cannot Wait Representative Debbie Wasserman Shultz, Representative Renee Elmers, Yasmin Vafa / The Huffington Post Jade was kidnapped on her way home from school. Violently thrown into the trunk of a car and taken from her...