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Sex Trafficking

Worldwide, false promises are ways in which traffickers bait and enslave their victims – both adults and minors. Indigenous populations and those who live in abject poverty are typically economically and politically marginalized; thus, most lack righ

Sign the Petition to Outlaw Forced Child Marriage in Niger

Freedom United wants help in telling President Mahamadou Issoufou to stop forced child marriages. “Outlawing child marriage will send a strong message that the practice must end and provide a firm legislative base to expand services to young women an

Honor Women’s Equality Day by Shopping at a Fair Trade/Empowerment Retailer

Women’s Equality Day is Saturday, August 26th. Celebrate by shopping at a fair trade/empowerment retailer! Empowerment retailer’s focus on empowering vulnerable/poverty stricken women and giving them the skills and tools necessary to become economica

Learn About the Arrest of Jeffrey Epstein

Billionaire Alleged Trafficker Jeffrey Epstein Arrested Update: On the morning of August 10th 2019, Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his lower Manhattan jail cell of an apparent suicide. He was 66. On Saturday July 6th 2019 Jeffrey Epstein, a billio

Learn About Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

40% of Women Who are Human Trafficking Victims or Survivors Identify as American Indian, Alaska Native, or Native American. This statistic is from a 2015 study by the National Congress of American Indians. This is reflected in a report by Amnesty Int

Challenges of Running an Aftercare Shelter

In 2014 we visited the Open Door Foundation, the only aftercare emergency shelter for female sex trafficking victims in Romania. Its founder, Monica Boseff, was named a Trafficking in Persons Report Hero and invited us to visit her shelter in Buchare

Trafficking in Temples

In pockets of southern India, Dalits are making strides toward self-sufficiency and self-reliance. Socially outcast, the Dalits are a marginalized group often subjected to caste-based violence and labor exploitation. In the Karnataka state, groups of

The Government Home for Girls

(Author’s Note: The following account was written by me several years ago after my visit to a government home for trafficking survivors in an Asian country. I have changed the names and a couple of minor details to protect the ongoing work in this lo

Why We Must Begin Talking About Labor Trafficking

On a recent visit to New York City, I met with Safe Horizon whose staff told me that 60% of their human trafficking cases dealt with labor trafficking. Safe Horizon serves clients in the United States, meaning that those 60% of cases occurred here in

ISIS, Yazidis and Crimes of Sex Trafficking in Iraq

You’ve certainly heard about the terror in Iraq during the last month with reports of 200,000 Iraqis fleeing for their lives as a radical Islamic terrorists attack, kill and rape tens of thousands. In addition to the obvious human rights abuses, we’r