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Human Trafficking, Migration and Refugees

Human Trafficking is rising to the attention of both local Governments and the International Community, and rightly so. For years it has remained the fastest growing type of organized crime in the world. With over 27 million people being exploited th

How Genocide is Similar to Human Trafficking

Macro alias: ImageWithCaption When the tanks rolled into Phnom Penh in April, 1975, people were grouped together and marched out of the city. They didn’t know what was coming. Neither did the first Jews that boarded a train traveling to Auschwitz; wh

Women Policymakers and Professionals Shaping the Anti-Slavery Movement

Taking Slavery Seriously My great grandmother lived in a time when women couldn’t vote. That didn’t stop her from trying. She went to the polls dressed up as a man. My great-grandfather, a soft-spoken and mild-mannered man, provided a sharp contrast

Sex Trafficking and the Carceral State

Last week The Daily Beast reported—in a sensational title, “Sex Trafficking Victims, Not ‘Prostitutes,’ Finally Getting Help (and a New Name) in Court”—that New York has set up a new provisional court system that tries to funnel arrested sex workers

Celebrating Women TIP Report Heroes

They are judges, lawyers, policy makers, politicians, trafficking survivors, social workers, psychologists, law enforcement professionals, and academics. These are the Women of the TIP Report Heroes. The Decade of Women “I believe that now, on the ev

After Aftercare

Eradicating slavery means a commitment to combating the underlying causes of exploitation, and recognizing that the road to true recovery for survivors is one that does not end with emergency aftercare. After Aftercare Many shelters and organizations

Canada Passes Legislation to Protect Exploited Persons

After the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Canada’s prostitution laws were unconstitutional in December 2013, Canada’s Parliament was given one year to adopt a new model of legislation. After consulting survivors, individuals in prostitution, vario

Operation Underground Railroad (OUR) – a Vanguard in the Fight Against Child Trafficking

In just its first year of existence, the non-profit organization Operation Underground Railroad (www.OURrescue.org) has already rescued over 250 victims of human trafficking in eight different countries, and a majority of those are children. We have

Mind Control

January is human trafficking awareness month in the United States. Acknowledging this, I want people to understand how human trafficking requires mind control. In order to understand what this means we need, first of all, to know what the mind is, wh

The Continuing Impact of Slavery

  Macro alias: ImageWithCaption   This Fall, three exhibitions and a conference at Yale investigated the relationship between Euro-Imperialism, slavery and visual culture: Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Brit