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Spring 2014

Human Rights

Briefs

Human Trafficking Clinic Wins $500,000 Grant from DOJ

The Law School’s Human Trafficking Clinic (HTC) has been awarded a $500,000, three-year grant from the Department of Justice (DOJ) to fund a partnership between the clinic and domestic violence and sexual assault services.

The award from the DOJ’s Legal Assistance for Victims Grant Program funds partnerships with the Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence and the U-M Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center. Both partnerships are designed to improve services to victims of human trafficking in Michigan.

“One thing we’ve been realizing more and more with our cases is how much overlap there is between the two. It doesn’t have to be that someone was either a victim of human trafficking, or of domestic violence or sexual assault; it’s often both,” says Elizabeth Campbell, ’11, clinical assistant professor of law in the HTC and the main author of the grant proposal.

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