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Alternative Proposals But Not Comprehensive Immigration Reform
05/08/2012 America’s history and culture have been shaped by newcomers since its founding, and immigration into the United States has been at the forefront of the nation’s political and social discourses ever since.
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The 2013 Federal Budget: A Presidential Proposal
04/05/2012 President Barack Obama's federal budget proposal requests $3.8 trillion in spending on infrastructure, education and manufacturing while raising taxes on the wealthy and cutting funding to most other domestic agencies and the Department of Defense.
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Act to Make Women Safe Now
02/22/2012 The Violence Against Women Act supports cost-saving measures for effective response to crimes of domestic violence, stalking, sexual assault and dating violence.
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Human Trafficking Awareness Day: How Many Modern Day Slaves are Supporting You?
01/09/2012 Human trafficking is the second largest criminal industry in the world after drug trade. Financial bondage and violent intimidation are mechanisms used by traffickers to enslave women and children.
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Women, War and Peace: Three Women Win the Nobel Prize for Peace
12/21/2011 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the first woman to be elected head of state in Africa and she ushered in peace after a 14-year civil war. Leymah Gbowee founded Women, Peace and Security Network Africa, and is known for organizing a women’s peace protest that included a “sex strike” until hostilities ended. Tawakkol Karman, a Yemeni journalist known as the “Mother of Revolution,” lived in a tent in a protest camp in Yemen and founded Women Journalist Without Chains.
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Intercept the Traffickers 2012
12/05/2011 Leading up to Super Bowl Sunday, February 5, 2012 in Indianapolis, Indiana, join United Methodist Women Human Trafficking Team members in our Intercept the Traffickers campaign.
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Celebrate 16 Days of Activism
11/07/2011 The Center for Global Women’s Leadership (CGWL) announced the campaign’s newest project, “What does security mean to you?” The goal is to collect short videos and written statements responding to that question.
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Women’s Human Rights: A Celebration of the 66th United Nations Day
10/27/2011 Determined to promote peace and prevent future warfare, a group of delegates from 50 countries, chaired by former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, gathered in San Francisco. The result was not only the formation of the international body known today as the United Nations (U.N.) but also the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
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Human Trafficking: A Resource for Preventing, Protecting, Prosecuting (PDF)
09/30/2011 Join United Methodist Women in the global movement to end the complex web of sexual slavery, prostitution and labor bondage.
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Women In Prison
08/25/2011 August 26 will mark the 40th anniversary of Women’s Equality Day. We must give urgent attention to the increasing incarceration rate of women offenders.
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