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The Rebecca Project for Human Rights (RPHR) is a transformational organization that advocates for justice, dignity and reform for vulnerable women and girls in the United States and in Africa. We believe that women and girls possess the right to live free of gendered inequity and sexual and physical violence; to heal from the injuries of violence, trauma and addiction. We believe that investment in their leadership creates healthy, safe, and strong communities.
Transforming Trauma Into Leadership
Advocacy to Change Laws
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FAIR Girls, GEMS, Polaris Project, Rebecca Project for Human Rights & 52 of our partners, 51 Attorneys General and 36 prominent clergy have called on Village Voice Media to shut down the adult section of it's website, Backpage.com
Executive Director, Imani Walker
Receiving BET Award
3 AM Girls: Lisa Ling Goes Undercover
Tina, a former teenage sex worker who escaped the world of pimps and their girls, and Lisa go undercover in Washington DC to witness the "rules of the streets" and see if they could identify any young, missing girls.
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US LAW ENFORCEMENT 'FAILING' ON CHILD PROSTITUTION
by Sima Kotecha, Newsbeat US Reporters
American law enforcement agencies are being accused of not doing enough to combat the problem of child prostitution.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in the United States estimates that between 100,000 and 300,000 American children are forced into prostitution every year - sometimes through being kidnapped near their homes.
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REBECCA PROJECT IN NEWSWEEK
The Super Bowl of Sex Trafficking
by Michelle Goldberg
January 30, 2011
While football fans are eagerly anticipating the Feb. 6 Super Bowl
showdown in Dallas, some state officials are gearing up for the big
game’s dark side: the surge in human trafficking that tends to accompany
major sports and entertainment events. “What we’ve learned is that
sexual trafficking, sexual exploitation of children in particular, is
all about supply and demand,” says Ernie Allen, president of the
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. With more than
100,000 fans descending on Dallas, that demand is going to be great.
There is a “looming potential explosion of human trafficking around the
Super Bowl,” says Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, who is expecting
hundreds of girls and women to be brought to the area.
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REBECCA PROJECT IN O MAGAZINE
Taking a Stand Against Sex Trafficking
by Jessica Stockton Clancy
January 25, 2011
The founders of the Rebecca Project help vulnerable women and girls speak truth to power.
Sitting in her Washington, D.C., office last spring with two victims of
sex trafficking, Malika Saada Saar could barely believe what she was
hearing. "They described how they had been sold on Craigslist," says
Saada Saar, founder of the Rebecca Project for Human Rights. "At that
moment, I committed to do everything I could to end this." In the months
that followed, the Rebecca Project arranged for victims to speak before
members of Congress, meet with the vice president and attorney general,
and write open letters to Craigslist's founder. By fall the site's
lucrative "adult services" section had disappeared.
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REBECCA PROJECT ON ABC NEWS
Craigslist: Site for Sex Slaves?
Two Victims Take Out Advertisement to Plead for Craig's Help
by David Wright, Lisa Jones and Xorje Olivares
August 10, 2010
In the adult section of the popular website Craigslist, it looks as though the world's oldest profession has met up with modern technology, with a number of women offering companionship for a certain price.
But are all the femme fatales featured online consenting adults, or sex slaves?
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In Recognition of Violence Against Women's Awareness Month
In her book Unbowed, Kenyan Nobel Prize Laureate, Dr. Wangari Maathi, shares the story of when she and other mothers demanded that the Moi government end the systematic disappearance of
dissenters, so many of whom were their beloved
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News & Research
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Contact Your Congressman |
Write and urge your Congressman/Congresswoman to include funding for child victims of domestic sex trafficking in the reauthorization of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA).
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Rebecca Project in Essence Magazine |
Imani Walker, Cofounder and Executive Director, featured in Essence Magazine, Work & Wealth: The Power List.
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Rebecca Project Updates |
REBECCA PROJECT IN
O MAGAZINE
Taking a Stand Against Sex Trafficking
by Jessica Stockton Clancy
January 25, 2011
The founders of the Rebecca Project help vulnerable women and girls speak truth to power.
Sitting in her Washington, D.C., office last spring with two victims of
sex trafficking, Malika Saada Saar could barely believe what she was
hearing. "They described how they had been sold on Craigslist," says
Saada Saar, founder of the Rebecca Project for Human Rights.
Read the article...
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PRESS HIGHLIGHTS
ABC covers Craigslist's decision but reports adult services ads are still active around the world and have migrated to free areas on Craigslist U.S.
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