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What Can Ordinary People in Ordinary Places do to Bring and Sustain Freedom for the Enslaved?

The pungent smell of stale urine set me back a step. Rats rested in leisure. The sound of disease could be heard echoing off the worn walls, and if these walls could talk, as the saying goes, few could stomach the stories. I moved forward, up two fli

Vannak Prum

In 2006, Cambodian Vannak Prum arrived in Malai, a city located in northwestern Cambodia along the Thai border, with the promise of a job. Prum left his pregnant wife in the hopes of returning home in a few months with the money to support his growin

Shamere McKenzie

Shamere McKenzie was a college student struggling to pay her tuition when she met her trafficker in 2005. He was a charismatic man who lured McKenzie into a relationship, promising to help and give her an opportunity to safely and quickly earn money

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.

Social Entrepreneurship

As a social entrepreneur working in Cambodia since the early 90s, I have always been confronted with the harsh reality of human tragedy and the prospective of a hopeful future. While a multitude of theories abound about social entrepreneurship and de

10 Things You Should Know About Modern Slavery

Today is the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. This is what you need to know. No one knows how many slaves are in the world. The one thing lacking in the world of anti-human trafficking work is good data. We just don’t have it. Every time an

Why We Can't Stay Forever 21

I have a confession. Something I am not too proud to admit. I used to love shopping at Forever 21. Their clothes are super trendy and very inexpensive compared to most brands. Now before we begin, there are two things about me you should know: I love

Modern Day Enslavement and the Spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The movement for a national day honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. began shortly after his assassination in 1968. President Ronald Reagan signed the holiday into law in 1983. It was first observed three years later.  In 1994 former Pennsylvania US

More Harm Than Good: Online Rumors and the Fight Against Modern-Day Enslavement

Facts, Fears, and Falsehoods During the self-quarantining that began in March of 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many myths and falsehoods related to human trafficking began making the rounds through social media. Many of these rumors were

Ending the Third Slavery

We often forget that slavery has its own history, with a storyline as old as recorded time. In the United States we mark its origins with the importation of the first “twenty and odd Negroes” into Point Comfort, near present day Hampton, Virginia. Th