Tag Archives: trafficking
Sun Gate Foundation Awards Scholarship to Justice Center Client
by CBJC StaffJuly 8, 2016
On July 5, Gong was notified that she received a $500 scholarship to pay for her textbooks this fall as she enters her second year of nursing school.
Read moreImmigrant Women & Children Project Helps Reunite Trafficking Survivors with their Children – by Suzanne Tomatore
by CBJC StaffAugust 18, 2015
Angelica (names changed for privacy and safety) came to the City Bar Justice Center’s Immigrant Women & Children Project (IWC) in 2013 seeking legal assistance because she was a victim of international labor trafficking.
Read moreAnti-Trafficking Around the World
by CBJC StaffAugust 14, 2014
Today the staff and director of the Immigrant Women and Children Project hosted a meeting with Tomomi Shimizu, Senior Program Manager of the Tokyo-based Kamonohashi Project.
Read moreSpecial Report: Spotlight on 150 Human Trafficking Cases
by CBJC StaffDecember 3, 2013
Today the City Bar Justice Center’s Immigrant Women & Children Project (IWC) released a Special Report, Spotlight on 150 Human Trafficking Cases, that reflects over a decade of direct representation of low-income immigrant survivors of human trafficking in the New York City metropolitan area and informs the Justice Center’s advocacy and policy recommendations.
Read moreIWC Presentation at Bronx School for Law, Government and Justice
by CBJC StaffMay 1, 2013
The Immigrant Women and Children Project’s Equal Justice Works fellow, Laura Matthews-Jolly, today spoke about human trafficking at the Bronx School for Law, Government and Justice.
Read moreShine the Light on Slavery Day
by CBJC StaffApril 9, 2013
Today, in honor of Shine the Light on Slavery Day, President Obama’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons released a draft five-year strategic plan.
Read moreTaiwanese Delegation Visits Justice Center
by CBJC StaffJune 12, 2012
The City Bar Justice Center’s Immigrant Women & Children Project (IWC) staff met at the City Bar with a Taiwanese Delegation hosted by the U.S. Department of State on Friday, June 8.
Read moreEmerging Issues with Trafficked Youth
by CBJC StaffJanuary 12, 2012
The Immigrant Women and Children Project, together with Greenberg Traurig and the New York Anti-Trafficking Network, hosted a panel discussion on National Human Trafficking Awareness Day, January 11, to highlight emerging issues with trafficked youth in New York City.
Read moreLaura Matthews-Jolly Joins City Bar Justice Center to Help Sex and Labor Trafficking Survivors
by CBJC StaffOctober 12, 2011
Laura Mathews-Jolly has joined the City Bar Justice Center’s Immigrant Women & Children Project on a two-year Equal Justice Works fellowship, supported by the law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP, to provide legal services to immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children and are survivors of labor and sex trafficking.
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