Casa Alianza  [to 8 March 2014]
Covenant House [to 8 March 2014]

07/03/2014 – Guitarist Gerry Leonard supports Casa Alianza on the Road to Rio

Casa Alianza UK ‏@CasaAlianzaUK Mar 8
Brand new on our blog – the amazing young women who inspire us daily: https://casaalianzauk.wordpress.com/2014/03/08/how-casa-alianza-is-helping-vulnerable-girls-become-somebody/ … #WomensDay2014 #humanrights @GeorginaMortime

Casa Alianza UK ‏@CasaAlianzaUK Mar 8
Casa Alianza Honduras’ Director on the 8,000 kids a year who flee #Honduras each year mostly because of violence: http://www.proceso.hn/2014/02/26/Term%C3%B3metro/Unos.ocho.mil/82816.html …

More Ammunition in the Fight Against Child Trafficking
Kevin M. Ryan, President and CEO, Covenant House
Thursday, March 6, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Excerpt
We’ve gotten another piece of ammunition in our fight against the trafficking of minors: A U.S. Federal Circuit Court has ruled that customers who arrange for or have sex with children under age 18 are to be considered human traffickers, and should be punished accordingly — with sentences ranging up to life in prison.

Wow. That’s a big and heavy stick we can use to protect kids who are forced into having sex for someone else’s profit. It hasn’t been used widely yet, but I am encouraged that, with the help of the court ruling and new proposed legislation, we may finally be able to reduce the demand for sex with children, and reduce the number of children raped and traumatized to meet that demand.

The opinion also raised the likelihood that a person who takes advantage of young people sexually because they are desperate for food or shelter could be prosecuted for the crime of trafficking as well…

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1,700 young people are rising to the new day from beds under a @CovenantHouse roof. They all have hopes & dreams. Help them realize both.

Covenant House ‏@CovenantHouse Mar 5
#CovenantHouse is proud to celebrate 25 years in NJ! Some kids & staff in #AtlanticCity speak on their experiences: http://ow.ly/u6sW7