Amara In The News

The Amara Legal Center Appoints New Executive Director For Immediate Release June 18, 2018. The Board of Directors of the Amara Legal Center is pleased to announce that they have named Llamilet [...]

(CN) – The Justice Department’s Office for Victims of Crime boosted its budget this year but nixed funding for a vital legal service that helps human trafficking survivors move forward: [...]

Ask nearly any professional whose work deals with the wide orbit of commercial sex—lawmakers, psychologists, public health advocates, lawyers, policy advisers—whether sex workers routinely [...]

A pair of bills that would make it easier to hide or delete some criminal records is dividing D.C. watchdog groups and victim advocates. During a six-hour public hearing Thursday on the [...]

As Capitol Hill backslides into dysfunction and bickering, the capital city is taking matters into its own hands to get work done: Washington, DC, might soon be the first US city to fully [...]

The University of Maryland Support, Advocacy, Freedom and Empowerment (SAFE) Center for Human Trafficking Survivors and the Prince George’s County Police Department (PGPD) have received a joint [...]

A new bill from At-large Councilmember David Grosso would decriminalize sex work in the District. “The reason I want to do it, in a nutshell, is I do not think the criminalization of sex [...]

D.C.’s mayor says the city has completed most of its six initiatives to help protect young people after false reports about missing teens went viral on social media earlier in the year. [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Amara Legal Center is proud to stand alongside D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser today, along with the rest of the Mayor’s Working Group on Missing Children, as it makes its [...]