Security Firm Gives Monitoring System to Women's Safe House
Security firm gives monitoring system to women's safe house
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Opened out of necessity six years ago, the shelter in the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre remains one of Vancouver's few women-only facilities. For the dozens of women who stay there each night, the shelter – which shares a space with a drug users' …
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One in four UK children will be living in poverty by 2020, says thinktank
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The work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, has argued for a new definition of child poverty to take address account of parental problems such as drug addiction, education and unemployment. This change of tactics has influential critics.
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Human trafficking in Vallejo, Bay Area more than prostitution
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Or Mary, who was left to fend for herself at a young age, became addicted to drugs and alcohol and married — all by age 16. Human trafficking, by definition, does not exclusively involve international transport — an often highlighted arm of the …
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Drug dealers charged with murder in Twin Cities heroin overdose deaths
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Third-degree murder, which in Minnesota means an unintentional homicide, existed as a criminal charge before 1987, but the Legislature that year expanded its definition to include deaths caused by a group of highly addictive and dangerous drugs. Known …
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