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Obama signs expanded Violence Against Women Act

March 16, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Staff The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — President Barack Obama signed expanded protections for domestic violence victims into law Thursday, March 7, renewing a measure credited with curbing attacks against women a year and a half after it lapsed amid partisan bickering.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2013, Attorney General Eric Holder, Darlene Superville, Diane Millich, House Speaker John Boehner, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Justice Department, Linda Fairstein, Native Americans, New York County, Obama, Senate Democrats, Trafficking Victims Protection Act, Violence Against Women Act, Vol 32 No 12 | March 16 - March 22, WASHINGTON, attention

People for sale? – Part 1 of 2: What’s often left unsaid and unreported in the world of modern slavery

February 17, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

In the mid 90s, advocates at the Asian & Pacific Islander Women & Family Safety Center (APIWFSC) were alarmed by a disturbing trend in domestic violence cases.

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: 2011, APIWFSC, Anne Ko, Emma Catague, International Labor Organization, Mexico, Northwest Asian Weekly, Operation Traffick Jam, Palermo Protocol, ReWA, Refugee Women, Seattle Police Department, Tiffany Ran, Trafficking Victims Protection Act, United Nation, United States, Vol 30 No 8 | February 19 - February 25

Trafficking victims try to remake lives

April 16, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Monica Rhor The Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Like dozens of other workers from Vietnam and China, Tiep Ngo had been lured to the Daewoosa clothing factory in American Samoa by promises of good pay. She left behind her child, her husband and her parents and paid $5,000 for her job contract only to […]

Filed Under: News, National News Tagged With: American Samoa, China, Chris Rhatigan, Good Samaritans, Immigration Services, Last March, Minh Leu, One Daewoosa, Thang Nguyen, Tiep Ngo, Trafficking Victims Protection Act, United States, Vietnamese, poverty

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