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The SVC, Special Victims’ Counsel, expanded legislation to assist sexual assault victims…
The changes will will affect policy and courts-martial procedures. The SCV has attorneys who help victims through the legal process. Now, not just Department of Defence civilians as well as active service members and their families are eligible.
As we enter a new year, we do so having recently marked a significant milestone in the global fight against human trafficking: the 25th anniversary of both the UN Palermo Protocol and the US Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). Adopted in 2000, these two frameworks reshaped how governments understand, prevent, and respond to modern slavery. Yet anniversaries are not only moments of celebration—they are moments of reckoning. A quarter-century on,
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