The result is salutary: Americans are beginning to understand the threat of shariah law, and even better, to understand the strengths of their own Constitution to protect the rights of free speech, the right to free association and to freely exercise or leave a religion, the right to bear arms, the right to due process and equal protection under the law for women and children.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Then it got a legal cell which gave legal protection to the women and children as they tried to change their lives.

FORBES: Hidden In Plain Sight

We commended the successful visit to the United States of the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC) in April 2012.

WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting