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Top News Stories in 2015

What stories caught your eye in 2015? Here are the most talked about and highly polarizing human trafficking issues in the past year. Sex Trafficking Decriminalization of Prostitution: After much lobbying and debate, Amnesty International delegates v

Where's the Line When It Comes to Child Labor

Child labor has made its way back into the news lately as we start to more strictly evaluate where and how our goods are produced. In the instance of child labor, there are exceptions that we as a western society have accepted as well as violations

FAQ: Does John Shaming Work?

You might’ve seen pictures of men, who have been charged with solicitation for prostitution, on billboards or newspapers. This name and shame technique is typically utilized by the end demand sector within the anti-trafficking field which believes th

A Fair Trade Small Business Saturday

In the Western world, we tend to be removed from the people & the stories behind the products we purchase. We don’t know who grew the vegetables we eat, who raised the eggs we cooked for breakfast, or who sewed our new dress. When you choose to p

More Harm Than Good: Online Rumors and the Fight Against Modern-Day Enslavement

Facts, Fears, and Falsehoods During the self-quarantining that began in March of 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many myths and falsehoods related to human trafficking began making the rounds through social media. Many of these rumors were

Stop Using the Term Underage Women

On July 8th, 2019 Jeffrey Epstein was charged with human trafficking and conspiracy to commit trafficking. The arrest of such a high profile figure has brought the issue of modern-day enslavement into the public consciousness, again. This also raises

Read "Labor Trafficking and Debt Bondage: 'Tip of the Iceberg'" by Harold D'Souza

Most modern-day enslaved people endure forced labor. Harold D'Souza was one of them. In 2003 Harold D'Souza came to the United States from India on an H1B Visa. A labor trafficker tricked him and his wife, Dancy, into working for a restaurant for not

Ending the Third Slavery

We often forget that slavery has its own history, with a storyline as old as recorded time. In the United States we mark its origins with the importation of the first “twenty and odd Negroes” into Point Comfort, near present day Hampton, Virginia. Th

Cook with Fair Trade Ingredients for Easter Sunday

Cook with Fair Trade Ingredients for Easter Sunday Easter is celebrated on April 1st, 2018 in many cultures around the world. For many of us in the United States, a part of that culture is an Easter Dinner or Brunch. This year, talk to your family ab

Insider Anti-Trafficking Information

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