by Doug Bardwell | Aug 29, 2024 | Be Aware
FBI Headquarters – Washington, DC Years after the FBI was taken to task over the Larry Nassar scandal with our Olympic gymnasts, they still don’t seem to have improved. See this latest article from Axios: FBI still failing to properly handle child sex...
by Doug Bardwell | Oct 6, 2022 | Be Aware, Doug's posts
Department of State – Washington, DC We’d just like to add our congratulations to the winners of this year’s awards for fighting human trafficking around the world. Seven awards were made under the Project to End Modern Slavery (PEMS). The U.S....
by Doug Bardwell | Sep 27, 2022 | Be Aware, Doug's posts
The European Union is now reporting that 5.4 million people have arrived there since fighting began in Ukraine. The vast majority of those are women and children who are most at risk. Luckily the European union’s law enforcement agency has begun a major project...
by Doug Bardwell | Jul 16, 2022 | Be Aware, Doug's posts
More than 20,000 saved last year One of the groups I have been monetarily supporting each month is Talitha Kum – an organization of Catholic nuns, primarily in Europe and Asia that are fighting human trafficking day-in-day-out. Venturing into the most vulnerable...
by Doug Bardwell | Jun 21, 2022 | Be Aware
It was yesterday, June 20th Okay, I admit…I did. Maybe I’ll blame it on Juneteenth, which seemed to garner much more media attention this year than any year in the past. At least that’s my excuse for now. I feel bad, because every day we hear about more...
by Doug Bardwell | May 17, 2022 | Be Aware
Don’t ask me why, but for years, trafficking victims’ rape kits have not been ‘required’ to be tested and logged into evidence. In a sexual assualt case, they were, but for trafficking victims, they were not. That’s about to change....
