Tag Archives: Victims

By Jennie L. Ilustre Maya Soetoro-Ng, peace educator, author and President Obama’s maternal half-sister, urged stronger “international and national collaboration” in fighting human trafficking, and lauded the work of organizations such as India-based Odanadi and Odanadi-US in rescuing and rehabilitating victims. “My brother’s administration is committed to solving this issue,” she said August 14 at the Center for American Progress …

By Susan R. Paisner Those are the words of Indira, a 36-year-old immigrant from India, and a domestic violence survivor living in northern Virginia. Her story is not all that unusual for an Asian American female. A study from the Asian & Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project (DVRP) states 41- 61% of Asian women report experiencing physical and/or sexual …