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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

A Door of Hope in the Cycle of Exploitation

An Offer Too Good to be True A young girl is given a job offer that seems too good to be true. It is. She ends up exploited. She is rescued, and placed in an emergency aftercare shelter. This story has become a familiar one. All around the world, peo

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

How You Could Become Enslaved

Many individuals are vulnerable to becoming enslaved. Below are some of the different ways people become enslaved. Smuggling You pay recruitment fees to individuals offering to bring you to another country. Whether it's to escape genocide or warfare

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

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

People are People, Regardless of Culture

Dreaming of a land far away—a land of adventure, development, and much unknown. A land known by many as home to many exotic animals, fruits, and surprises. A land with colors, dark sun-kissed faces and bright smiles. A land with beautiful songs and v

Slavery-Freedom Continuum

As I stated in a previous blog post, “slavery is a social phenomenon existing on the far end of a continuum of oppression.” The model below represents the continuum that I am referring to. Slavery is one extreme. Freedom is the other. There are mult