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Backpage.com v. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart

Back in 2009, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart sued Craigslist, an online classified ads site, and charged that it knowingly promoted prostitution via its Erotic Services section. Dart wanted Craigslist to be held responsible for the sex ads posted on it

What the Human Trafficking Movement Can Learn from the AIDS Movement Success

The anti-human trafficking world loves its statistics. They sound so dramatic, don’t they? You can hear them passed around at dinner parties, anti-slavery trainings and you might even hear one on a C-SPAN senate hearing. Nothing gets people excited l

TIP Heroes Tour of America

This past week the 2015 TIP Report was released. Along with the report there were eight heroes named for their extraordinary work in the anti-slavery field. These heroes were taken on a tour of the United States, starting in Washington, D.C. and endi

The Democratic Republic of the Congo - Child Soldiers

The history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the 18th largest country in the world, is fraught with violence, conflict and exploitation. From the personal colony of King Leopold II of Belgium, to the dictator Joseph Mobutu's personal piggy ba

Connecting Slavery Then with Slavery Now: Part 2

BY JAMES STEWART James Wallace Professor of History, Emeritus at Macalester College and Founder of Historians Against Slavery This post is part II of a series from historian James Stewart discussing the connection between slavery “then” and “now.” P

How Genocide is Similar to Human Trafficking

Macro alias: ImageWithCaption When the tanks rolled into Phnom Penh in April, 1975, people were grouped together and marched out of the city. They didn’t know what was coming. Neither did the first Jews that boarded a train traveling to Auschwitz; wh

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

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

If not us, then who? An invitation to action.

As I wander though Cincinnati’s National Underground Railroad Freedom Center gift shop, the noise of the everyday world slips away and the quiet of this splendid building soothes me. It is a place where there is plenty of space to think, to reflect a

Language Matters: Defining Human Trafficking and Slavery

“The way we think about problems is extremely sensitive to the language used to describe them.” - Deborah Stone, Policy Paradox Language is fundamentally how we as humans communicate meaning. We choose specific words to mean specific things. It is al