Perhaps you’ve seen billboards about human trafficking, read news reports highlighting human trafficking cases, or seen a film about trafficking. January is an excellent month to learn more about human trafficking. Human trafficking is a crime and a human rights violation. It includes both sex trafficking and labor trafficking and describes situations where force, fraud,…
Cities, governments, organizations, and people around the world join together from November 25 through December 10 to take a stand to end violence against women. The United Nations Secretary-General’s campaign UNiTE to End Violence Against Women kicks off on November 25, the official International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and follows through…
It all started with a question: “Why is there a men’s retreat, but no women’s retreat?” From there it took me a year and a half (and several misfires) to build the right team, the right format, and the right interest to pull off Dickinson College’s first ever women’s retreat. On April 20-21, 2013, with…