According to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) an estimated 50,000 women and children are trafficked into the United States each year. Victims are often lured into trafficking networks through false promises of good working conditions and high pay as domestic workers, factory and farm workers, nannies, waitresses, sales clerks, or models. Once in this [...]
The 2Cooltura project was created in 2006 for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention within the Department of Justice. Thanks to a generous renewal grant from the Department of Justice, SRF and Hispanic Communications Network have come together again to help Hispanic youth get out of and stay out of gangs.
The 2009-2010 [...]
According to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) an estimated 50,000 women and children are trafficked into the United States each year. Victims are often lured into trafficking networks through false promises of good working conditions and high pay as domestic workers, factory and farm workers, nannies, waitresses, sales clerks, or models. Once in this [...]
In 2008, SRF teamed up with AYUDA, a Washington D.C.-based non-profit organization that provides assistance to low-income, foreign-born persons in the areas of immigration, human trafficking, domestic violence, and family law. In partnership with the Ricky Martin Foundation, the Inter-American Development Bank and the D.C. Mayor’s Office on Latino Affairs, AYUDA had recently launched [...]
SRF’s initiative directed at the Hispanic community “El Genoma Human a su Alcance” or “The Human Genome Is Within Your Reach” was an educational project funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and designed to inform Spanish-speaking adults about the scientific, ethical, legal and social issues related to the human genome. The project included [...]
On November 12, 2008, the Department of Justice launched a new National Public Awareness Campaign along with several Project Safe Childhood (PSC) partners, including SRF. PSC was introduced to the public in 2006 to combat the increase of sexual predators using the Internet to entice and sexually exploit children in the United States. SRF [...]