Ending Homelessness, Part 2, UCLA – This past year, 24 first-year Social Welfare students from the UCLA School of Public Affairs spent 20 weeks researching and studying the stigmatization of th…

Tanzania 'crazy' about Obama's visit

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"My country is crazy at the moment about Obama's visit and I am, too," said Asteria Benedicto, 32, a student at the Institute of Social Work in Dar es Salaam. "If I get a chance, I will ask him to see to it that there's an equal distribution of …
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The New Prostitutes

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Nearly half of the New York City online escorts surveyed by the Urban Justice Center's Sex Workers Project in 2005 said they had been forced by a client to do something they did not want to do, and almost as many said they had been threatened or beaten …
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