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Ravi Shanker Kumar

More than 300,000 children are estimated to be trapped in India’s carpet industry. Most of India’s carpets are woven in Uttar Pradesh, where the majority of workers are low-caste Hindu boys. Ravi Shanker Kumar was one of them. His parents were succum

Biram Dah Abeid

A descendant of slaves himself, Biram Dah Abeid began to formally fight slavery and discrimination in Mauritania through an organization he formed at age 19: the National African Movement. He openly addressed the Secretary of State at the time, Colon

Theresa Flores - S.O.A.P.

Like many survivors, Theresa Flores is paying it forward by reaching out to at-risk individuals and raising awareness about human trafficking. An all-American girl from a well-to-do white suburban neighborhood, then 15-year-old Theresa Flores was not

Vulnerability to Trafficking Among Acid Attack Survivors

As a psychologist trying to understand human behavior, there is one concept that I reference more frequently than any other. It is that of my former graduate school professor, who said, “People don’t come into therapy to be told what they should do.

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

Freedom from Slave Fishing Ships

 2015 became a pivotal year for antislavery activists working against forced and bonded labor in Thailand. Exposés by The Guardian, Associated Press and Reuters revealed enslaved Thai and migrant workers catching seafood products sold by major retail

Assisting Trafficked Migrants in Taiwan

Reverend Peter van Hung established the Vietnam Migrant Workers and Brides Office in 2004 after discovering a case of 100 Vietnamese women raped and trafficked by brokers. As one of the leaders in anti-trafficking and labor rights in Taiwan, Reveren

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

Justifying Human Trafficking: The Mind of a Trafficker

Traffickers recruit, harbor, transport, provide and/or obtain people for the purpose of compelling labor and/or commercial sexual exploitation. They use force, fraud or coercion to exact work and profit from others. Fraudulent brokers, corrupt offici

History of Child Soldier Policies

When we think of child soldiers, the first image that comes to mind is that of an African boy with a camo uniform and a large gun (usually portrayed as looking bigger than him). Perhaps we also picture a group of Afghan boys receiving military traini