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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

Human Trafficking in Lithuania (Kristina Misiniene)

Kristina Misiniene of Lithuania was given a TIP Report Hero award in 2006. Her organization, CARITAS Lithuania, is headquartered in Kaunas, the second largest city in Lithuania. Just inside the old town, down some cobble stone streets and past the ma

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