January is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Human trafficking is a crime as well as a violation of human rights. The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) has been reauthorized several times and is the foundational federal legislation. It defines trafficking as: sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force,…
This is my second year organizing the “16 Days of Activism” Campaign for the Women’s and Gender Resource Center. I truly do enjoy the planning portion of it and getting to be creative with the different activities for each day. For those who don’t know, “16 Days of Activism” is a campaign designed by the…
Voting Day, Tuesday, November 6, will finally be here in a few days. After months and months of talk from politicians, experts, journalists, and scholars about the midterm elections, it all comes down to one day. We, as students of Dickinson and as citizens of the United States, can use our voices to directly make…