394 results for author: James R. Marsh

Human Trafficking Awareness Online Training

The Department of Homeland Security's Blue Campaign is now offering online training about how to spot the signs of and report suspected human trafficking. The training is aimed at the general public, the Federal workforce, first responders, and airline employees and focuses on: Defining human trafficking Differentiating between human trafficking and human smuggling Recognizing populations vulnerable to human trafficking Recognizing indicators of human trafficking     A glossary and additional resources also are provided. View the Human Trafficking Awareness Training on the Department of Homeland Security's ...

NSCAW Data on Psychotropics and Children in Care

A research brief released by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) examines the use of psychotropic medications by children in child welfare. What makes this brief unique is its exploration of and distinction among the use of psychotropics across placement types (in-home and out-of-home settings), mental health needs, and usage in tandem with other mental health treatments or services. Authors used data from the second National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW II). The NSCAW II study included 5,873 children who had contact with the child welfare system during a 14-month ...

ECPAT-USA’s Alternative Report to the United Nations

As of November 2009, 193 countries have ratified or accepted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The only countries that have not signed it are Somalia, South Sudan, and the United States of America. While we have not signed the Convention, the United States has signed onto the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, which requires countries to prohibit the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. As part of the protocol, the US must report every five years on its progress in preventing and combating child trafficking. The pioneering ECPAT-USA (End Child Prostitution and ...

Advocacy Alert: Adoption Tax Credit

Contact your Congressional Representative and ask them to Co-Sponsor H.R. 4373! If Congress does not act the tax credit as we now know it will expire on December 31, 2012. If the adoption tax credit helped you or someone you know to adopt a child or if it could help you in the future to adopt a child, call your Representative today and urge that he or she cosponsor the bipartisan bill H.R. 4373, the Making Adoption Affordable Act. Action: We are contacting you today to urge you to call your Representative in the U.S. House of Representatives. You can reach your Representative by calling the U.S. Capitol Operator at (202) 225-3121 and asking for ...

International Adoption’s Trafficking Problem

From the Harvard Political Review: International adoptions have an illustrious façade, conjuring images of couples saving a hungry, orphaned child and living happily ever. While imagining international adoptions as a corrupt business is abhorrent, connections to child trafficking have recently arisen. Accordingly, the State Department reports that though Americans adopted 22,991 international children in 2004, the implementation of The Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption brought about a precipitous drop to 9,319 adoptions in 2011. Over the past decade, Western investigative journalists led by Scott Carney have published on hidden realities. ...

EFF Joins the Child Exploitation Bandwagon

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is representing the Internet Archive in a fight against a Washington state law designed to prevent child sex trafficking. EFF, which bills itself as "Defending Your Rights in the Digital World, is a Washington, DC special interest group and long-time supporter of near absolute Internet "freedom." This article in the august National Law Journal provides a good overview of the case. What the article doesn't tell you is that the new plaintiff in the Washington litigation (which was brought by cyber-pimp Backpage.com and Village Voice Media Holdings), the Internet Archive, shares a board member with EFF, Brewster ...

US Human Rights Violation: Kairi Sheperd

Indian girl Kairi Sheperd was adopted by an American woman 30 years ago, but she is now a homeless and a stateless international orphan. Even though Kairi was legally adopted 30 years ago when she was 3 months old, the United States wants to dump Kairi on India, claiming that she was never properly adopted. A quirk in US law denies Kairi the right to become a US citizen even though she was legally adopted under US law. India's robust press, TIMES NOW's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, debates the issue with Dr. Michelle Harrison, founder, Shishur Sevay, Anjali Pawar, founder & Director, SAKEE NGO, Ravi Batra, Senior Advocate and Capt Sushil Bhan. Video ...