The government decreased law enforcement efforts. Articles 110(a) and 128(b) of the criminal code criminalized sex trafficking and labor trafficking and prescribed penalties of eight to 15 years’ imprisonment for a trafficking offense involving an adult victim, and ten to 20 years’ imprisonment for an offense involving a child victim. These penalties were sufficiently stringent […] More
The government maintained victim protection efforts. The government and NGOs identified 95 official and potential victims (105 in 2017). The government could not provide details about the type of exploitation for all official and potential victims but at least 36 were subjected to sex trafficking, 25 to forced labor, and 27 to forced begging. The […] More
By now the arguments for and against same-sex marriage are well enough known to those who want to know them, even if much of the debate has been too shallow or slick to do justice to the deeper issues. So there’s no need for me to go over well trodden ground. But in a debate […] More
American College of Pediatricians – November 2018 ABSTRACT: Gender dysphoria (GD) of childhood describes a psychological condition in which children experience a marked incongruence between their experienced gender and the gender associated with their biological sex. When this occurs in the pre-pubertal child, GD resolves in the vast majority of patients by late adolescence. Currently […] More
By Jennifer Lahl, President of the Center for Bioethics and Culture The November 2018 edition of British GQ features an essay titled, “It’s Time to be Grown Up About Surrogacy.” Senior Commissioning Editor Charlie Burton interviewed me as part of this essay, and apparently I’m not being grown up. Burton argues that the UK Law […] More
The Sacred Heart for many is something unknown. For some, a devotion only for old ladies.For others an obsolete representation.In reality, the heart is one of the most used symbols by young people and not only young people: in messages, on social networks, or in photos, make the heart with joint thumbs and index fingers […] More