The first National Leadership Training Institute was held in Washington, DC from October 25 to 27, 2007. The Institute brought together 25 emerging and experienced leaders working for rights to share human rights based skills to work for justice. The Institute model is an intensive series of classes that will help new and current leaders understand activism, organize for change, work to change images of sex workers in the media and much more. Since the first Institute was held in 2007 other organizations have drawn on the 2007 experience to host regional and national trainings. If this is something you would like to find out more about please email us at psaunders… at…. bestpracticespolicy.org
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Two lawsuits against the US government over the so-called prostitution “loyalty oath” have ended with rulings favoring organizations that sued to defend their freedom of speech. In separate rulings, judges in the Southern New York US District Court and District of Columbia US District court found the requirement that all recipients of USAID money to sign a pledge “opposing prostitution and sex trafficking” to be an unconstitutional infringement on the rights of the organizations, DKT International and Open Society Institute.
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