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Aftercare and Slave Labor - The Necessity to Care for Others

When you read about the suffering of people in slavery, it is hard to conceive how anyone who survives slavery could ever hope to recover and lead a normal life. Both historic slavery and modern day human trafficking inflict seemingly unbearable suff

James Annan

As the youngest child of an illiterate family, being enslaved was not uncommon in Ghana when James Kofi Annan was growing up. He had not begun primary school when he was sent away by his father to work in a fishing village nine hours away from his ho

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.

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

The Narrative Matters: Guidelines on Writing about Slavery

Earlier this week, one of the headlines in The Guardian posed the question: What happens when children’s books fail to confront the complexity of slavery? Referring to the controversial cover of A Birthday Cake for George Washington depicting a smili

Basics About Trafficking and End Slavery Now - FAQ

As the person who manages the general email account for ESN as well as its social media outlets, I get a lot of requests. Many of those requests are from students doing reports on human trafficking, and they ask for answers to a variety of questions.

Capsizing Boats and Trafficking

I imagine all of us have seen the horrifying pictures of capsizing boats in the Mediterranean as women, men and children are fleeing from conflict and warfare. The picture I’ll never forget is the one of a boat with over 500 people, the size which c

The 30th Anniversary of the Mauritanian Genocide

On November 28, 1990 28 men in Inal, Mauritania were hanged by their fellow soldiers. They were accused of plotting a coup against the government of this northwest African country. There was no trial. November 28 also happens to be the day Mauritania

Human Trafficking Awareness 2022

Since 2010, the month of January has been dedicated to raising awareness about human trafficking. January is chosen as the month of Human Trafficking (also sometimes known as modern slavery) because of the significance of the Emancipation Proclamati

4Sarah, Inc.

History When Kasey McClure was three years old she was being sexually molested by her father, but he was never prosecuted for his crime. By the age of 18, she followed her older sister to Atlanta to work at the World Famous Gold Club as a stripper. S