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	<title>Children and the Law Blog</title>
	
	<link>http://www.childrenandthelawblog.com</link>
	<description>A project of the Center for Children, Law &amp; Policy at the University of Houston Law Center</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Supreme Court and LWOP for Juveniles</title>
		<link>http://www.childrenandthelawblog.com/2009/11/02/the-supreme-court-and-juvenile-life-without-parole-sentencing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.childrenandthelawblog.com/2009/11/02/the-supreme-court-and-juvenile-life-without-parole-sentencing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Therin Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, November 9, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether life without parole (LWOP) constitutes cruel and unusual punishment when applied to juveniles. Two cases, Graham v. Florida and Sullivan v. Florida, hope to build on the Court’s 2004 decision in the pivotal case Roper v. Simmons. In Roper, the Court held that [...]


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		<title>Under Pressure: New Adoption Law for Vietnam</title>
		<link>http://www.childrenandthelawblog.com/2009/10/07/under-pressure-new-adoption-law-for-vietnam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.childrenandthelawblog.com/2009/10/07/under-pressure-new-adoption-law-for-vietnam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Therin Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Vietnam’s National Assembly struggles to answer a familiar but labyrinthine question: how do you create an international adoption framework that doesn’t allow for abuse?
Last month, an adoption fraud trial opened in Vietnam, naming sixteen charity and medical workers as defendants. All of the individuals were found guilty of fraud in over 266 adoptions, generating fake [...]


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		<title>Siddharth Kara: Inside the Business of Modern Sex Slavery</title>
		<link>http://www.childrenandthelawblog.com/2009/10/01/siddharth-kara-inside-the-business-of-modern-sex-slavery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.childrenandthelawblog.com/2009/10/01/siddharth-kara-inside-the-business-of-modern-sex-slavery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Gilman</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[human trafficking]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.childrenandthelawblog.com/?p=1592</guid>
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From Social Innovation Conversations, Siddharth Kara discusses the findings of his most recent book Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Sex trafficking is the most highly profitable &#8212; and exploitative &#8212; component of contemporary slavery. In this talk, author and former investment banker Siddharth Kara exposes the [...]


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		<title>Prosecuting Polanski: At What Cost to the Victim?</title>
		<link>http://www.childrenandthelawblog.com/2009/09/30/prosecuting-polanski-at-what-cost-to-the-victim/</link>
		<comments>http://www.childrenandthelawblog.com/2009/09/30/prosecuting-polanski-at-what-cost-to-the-victim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Gilman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Oscar-winning film director was arrested on Sunday in Zurich on a 31-year-old warrant issued in the U.S. for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977. In an interview last year, the victim made a surprising observation:
We pressed charges, and he pleaded guilty. A plea bargain was agreed to by his lawyer, my lawyer [...]


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		<title>The controversy over Uruguay’s new same-sex adoption law</title>
		<link>http://www.childrenandthelawblog.com/2009/09/21/the-controversy-over-uruguays-new-same-sex-adoption-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.childrenandthelawblog.com/2009/09/21/the-controversy-over-uruguays-new-same-sex-adoption-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Therin Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Following a polemic debate, the Parliament in Uruguay passed a new law earlier this month legalizing same-sex couple adoption. Like most of the continent, Uruguay has a strong Roman Catholic culture and history; no other Latin American country has passed similar law. Church leaders quickly renounced the decision, claiming that children placed in gay homes [...]


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		<title>A Pivoltal Moment: Coalition for Juvenile Justice Report on the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act</title>
		<link>http://www.childrenandthelawblog.com/2009/09/18/a-pivoltal-moment-coalition-for-juvenile-justice-report-on-the-federal-juvenile-justice-and-delinquency-prevention-act/</link>
		<comments>http://www.childrenandthelawblog.com/2009/09/18/a-pivoltal-moment-coalition-for-juvenile-justice-report-on-the-federal-juvenile-justice-and-delinquency-prevention-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Gilman</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.childrenandthelawblog.com/?p=1532</guid>
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The Coalition for Juvenile Justice (CJJ) has released its national report on state compliance with the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA). While juvenile justice is historically the province of the states, the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act provided funding and training on best practices to states who agreed to certain [...]


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		<title>Children of Bad Memories</title>
		<link>http://www.childrenandthelawblog.com/2009/08/31/children-of-bad-memories/</link>
		<comments>http://www.childrenandthelawblog.com/2009/08/31/children-of-bad-memories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Gilman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Slate: Children of Bad Memories - Photographing a generation born of rape during the Rwandan genocide
They call them &#8220;enfants mauvais souvenirs,&#8221; children of bad memories. During the 1994 Rwandan genocide, hundreds of thousands of Tutsi women were systematically raped and forced into sexual servitude by members of extremist Hutu militia groups. Many of these women [...]


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		<title>VoteKids Releases Senate Scorecard on the Political Priority of Children in the U.S. Senate</title>
		<link>http://www.childrenandthelawblog.com/2009/08/26/votekids-releases-senate-scorecard-on-the-political-priority-of-children-in-the-us-senate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.childrenandthelawblog.com/2009/08/26/votekids-releases-senate-scorecard-on-the-political-priority-of-children-in-the-us-senate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Gilman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Vote Kids, a 501(c)(4) &#8220;devoted to making children a political priority, not a political afterthought&#8221; has released a 2009 Senate Scorecard based on its interpretation of the voting records of our Senators and how it affects our Nation&#8217;s children.
There&#8217;s room to differ on the methodology; the ranking breaks fairly cleanly on partisan lines. Of the [...]


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		<title>Guardianship Appointments in Texas</title>
		<link>http://www.childrenandthelawblog.com/2009/08/26/guardianship-appointments-in-texas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.childrenandthelawblog.com/2009/08/26/guardianship-appointments-in-texas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jocelyn Fowler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent death of Michael Jackson has brought tough custody issues to the nation&#8217;s attention. It might be surprising to know that matters of guardianship in Texas are handled in the probate court, not the family court. The Texas Probate Code, Chapter 13 lays out the procedures for guardianship matters of minors after a person&#8217;s [...]


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		<title>Reclaiming Futures Blog, Dedicated to Substance Abuse and Teens in the Juvenile Justice System</title>
		<link>http://www.childrenandthelawblog.com/2009/08/23/reclaiming-futures-blog-dedicated-to-substance-abuse-and-teens-in-the-juvenile-justice-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Gilman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There are far too few blogs tracking juvenile and other issues regarding children and the law. Reclaiming Futures, a professionally-staffed blog that aims to keep people informed of the latest happenings in juvenile justice and substance abuse treatment. Launched by Reclaiming Futures, an initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, it&#8217;s designed to foster discussion [...]


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