One of my favorite organizations, Polaris Project , does incredible advocacy work to prevent trafficking and also does amazing hands-on work rescuing and rehabilitating women who are victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation. They have asked for people to donate clothes to help get their clients back on their feet. These clothes can be anything from...
Category Archives: Women's Rights
Donate Clothing to Survivors of Trafficking
Advocate to Add Women’s Voices to Peace Negotiations
I am particularly passionate about defending the rights of women and girls and protecting them from abuse and violence. Because of that, I truly admire the work of UNIFEM and their campaign called “Say NO- End Violence Against Women“. I regularly receive their updates and calls to action and I got one yesterday that was...
Eliminate the Rape Kit Backlog
Every year, more than 200,000 individuals report their rape to the police. Almost all of them are asked to submit to the collection of DNA evidence from their bodies, which is then stored in a small package called a rape kit. This collection of evidence is an invasive and traumatic process that takes four to...
National Human Trafficking Awareness Day
Monday was National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Therefore, I’m going to take this opportunity to make those of you who are unaware of this issue…more aware! (I would have posted this then, but Gary and I have travelled to South Africa and internet access is currently fairly limited…so forgive my lateness!)
The first step in advocacy...
International Human Rights Day
Today is International Human Rights day. In honor of this day, we are gonna do some advocacy. Advocacy means “speaking or writing in support or defense of a person, cause, etc.” or “pleading for or on behalf of another”. In a nutshell, it is becoming a voice for the voiceless.
I found several opportunities for advocacy...
Stop Rape Now
One of my favorite organizations, UNIFEM, has launched a new campaign called Stop Rape Now. This campaign is striving to end rape in general, but is focusing on trying to end rape being used as a weapon of war. There are millions of women around the world that live with rape as a daily reality...
Donate Your Wedding Dress
Ok, ladies. I know your wedding dress is special and I know we all have fantasies of our daughters wearing it someday. However, the truth is, we will never wear it again and more than likely neither will our daughters (I know, it sounds harsh, but do you know anyone who wore their mother’s dress???)....