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Taipei Women's Rescue Foundation
http://www.twrf.org.tw/History
Taipei Women’s Rescue Foundation (TWRF) was formally registered in September of 1987 to provide legal consultation and counseling to girls and women in the sex trade, and to help them return to their families and society.
- Contact Information:
- Minsheng Road, 10th Floor, Datong District
- Taipei,
- Taiwan
- Active In: Taiwan
- Forms of Abolition:
- Rescue, Aftercare
- Forms of Slavery:
- Sex Trafficking
- Tel: (+866) 2555-8595
- Email: master@twrf.org.tw
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