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The Hawaiʻi State Supreme Court convened in special session today for the swearing-in of the Honorable Kirstin M. Hamman as Judge of the Circuit Court of the Second Circuit in Maui County.
The state is eager for its vacation industry to rebound after a devastating 2020 season.
WBAL Radio 1090 AM - Native Hawaiians demand justice for sex-trafficking victims amid searches for missing women
Ferrantraite/iStock(NEW YORK) -- When someone goes missing in Hawaii, local activist Ihilani Lasconia says that many in the island's Native communities first suspect one thing: sex trafficking. "Everybody knows that it's happening, everybody knows that it's a problem," said Lasconia, an advocate for the feminist group AF3IRM. "It's been so normalized -- with over 100 years of colonization -- so people feel defeated and don't have the vocabulary to articulate these experiences." A new task force created by the state House aims to gather data on the n...
Native Hawaiians are disproportionately affected by sex trafficking.