Reason

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THE FBI IS once again aiding vice squad stings across the country and calling it an effort to stop child sex trafficking. Dubbed “Operation Independence Day,” (OID) the monthlong July initiative saw agents going undercover to help arrest people for o

NPR

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Alika Kinan, a victim of sex trafficking in Argentina, made history when she sued her captors — and won. This week, she was honored as a "hero" for her activism.

NPR

3 min. di lettura

Cyntoia Brown received a life sentence for killing a man who hired her for sex when she was 16. Her case is renewing efforts to change how the system treats child sex trafficking victims.

The Christian Science Monitor

2 min. di lettura

An eight-month investigation uncovered a clandestine operation that trafficked Asian sex workers through four counties, two states, and involved more than 200 alleged johns, including New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft.

Reason

21 min. di lettura

THE WEBSITE RUBMAPS describes itself as being devoted to “erotic massage parlor reviews & happy endings.” Users who pay for membership can write and read reviews of massage parlors. Some reviews are predictably racy, and some are, perhaps surprisingl

The Christian Science Monitor

5 min. di lettura

Young people are most vulnerable to human trafficking. Mona Al-Hayani’s curriculum has trained thousands to recognize it.

MASK The Magazine

2 min. di lettura

“In the past, I was blissfully blind. I thought child sex trafficking was something that happened in developing countries, not in my town,” Genice Jacobs shares on her website, AbolitionistMom.org. “And then I learned that sex trafficking is a growin

NPR

2 min. di lettura

Cyntoia Brown's case has resurfaced into the national spotlight, calling into question how the U.S. justice system handles juvenile cases, particularly those involving girls of color.

TIME

12 min. di lettura

“THIS IS WHERE WE FOUND THAT LITTLE gal in the snow with nothing on but a T-shirt. Her head had been bashed in by her pimp.” Our headlights rake a desolate embankment on the fringes of Williston, N.D., as Windie Jo Lazenko does a three-point turn and

The Guardian

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Thousands of young women leave home in Nigeria every year on the promise of a good job in Europe, only to be trapped by debt and forced into prostitution. But one joined forces with investigators in Italy to expose the traffickers. By Ottavia Spa

The Caravan

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THERE WERE BREATHTAKING SIGNS in that heady era, when India was celebrating 50 years of independence and a new millennium shone ahead, that a revolution was underway for the country’s sex workers. In November 1997, some five thousand women, hijras an

Los Angeles Times

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The new faces of sex trafficking are increasingly white, affluent and well-connected. In an indictment unveiled July 8 in the Southern District of New York, Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy hedge fund manager, was charged with sex trafficking for recruit

RECOIL OFFGRID

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“We are like a meal … when everyone’s done eating, into the dumpster we go, and nobody gives a sh*t.” This quote came from a 14-year-old girl who’d been trafficked for sex and later committed suicide by walking onto a freeway at night. Not only shoul

Best Self Magazine

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— ‘Human trafficking’? That can’t possibly be a real thing happening around me… Or could it?  Those were the questions running through my mind as I sat on my friend’s couch in Sydney, Australia back in 2008 listening to her tell me about a new nonpro

NPR

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Police say the women may have been thrown off a rubber dinghy into the sea. Authorities are trying to determine whether their deaths are linked to sex trafficking.

5280 Magazine

3 min. di lettura

CAROL STEELE IS, in her own words, a “retirement-age white woman who lives in a nice community in Denver.” Sammie Wicks is, as he jokingly puts it, “a 32-year-old black man who’s never going to be a white woman.” Yet Steele and Wicks have found commo

Los Angeles Times

5 min. di lettura

OROVILLE, Calif. - Tracey Aldrich and her mother, Deborah, were forced out of their rural Northern California homes by fire last Tuesday, but that's not their biggest concern. At night, before she falls asleep, Tracey Aldrich loses control of her tho

SEW NEWS

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When most people think about human trafficking, the United States isn’t the first country that comes to mind. However, in the last 10 years more than 49,000 cases of human trafficking in the US have been reported to the National Human Trafficking Hot

The Guardian

3 min. di lettura

Local women patrol the Nepal-Indian border to apprehend people taking girls out of the country

Business Today

1 min. di lettura

Fight against human trafficking can be complex and tedious but Hasina Kharbhih does not hesitate to take the bull by the horns. At 17, Meghalaya based Kharbhih walked away from an opportunity to study in London and pursued her work to prevent traffic

The Texas Observer

3 min. di lettura

In 2004, Javier traveled from Coahuila, Mexico, to Texas, where he worked hauling grains and cotton as a seasonal farmworker on an H-2A visa. Javier, who requested his last name not be used, endured significant hardship during his time as a farmworke

The Christian Science Monitor

5 min. di lettura

Survivors' perspectives are key to prevention and rehabilitation efforts, advocates argue. Young women are helping each other heal, while challenging the attitudes that contribute to trafficking in the first place.

Marie Claire Australia

8 min. di lettura

An actor sits on the edge of a mattress in a $90-a-night, hard-luck motel room, the grimy curtains drawn. Cobwebs cloud the splotchy ceiling and the room smells musty and of old smoke. In the bathroom, the floor tiles peel at the edges and beige stre

The Christian Science Monitor

6 min. di lettura

Views on justice and sex crimes are changing, allowing for more balance in the way high-profile defendants, like Jeffrey Epstein, are treated.

NPR

2 min. di lettura

The disturbance began when a man started yelling on train, including slurs at two apparently Muslim women. When others tried to intervene, the man stabbed three of them.

Futurity

3 min. di lettura

Researchers have created resources that cover data gathering for people working in the anti-human trafficking field, including best practices for getting responsible and reliable data when working with these hidden and vulnerable populations. When pe

RECOIL OFFGRID

14 min. di lettura

The public is often led to believe that human trafficking only happens in other countries. Theresa Flores is living proof that it’s been happening in the United States for a long time. It’s often linked to some very sinister people in positions of po

Fairlady

1 min. di lettura

The buying and selling of people for exploitation through forced labour, sex work and domestic slavery is the fastest-growing crime in the world. Slavery is a $150 billion global industry, says the International Labour Organisation; 75 percent of vic

Post Magazine

4 min. di lettura

Sold into slavery I was born in Kerala, in southern India, in 1972. I had a normal childhood with my mom, dad and four brothers and sisters. My father wasn't doing too well health-wise, so a well-respected woman in the community offered to help our f

New Internationalist

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On the last leg of her long and perilous journey to Europe, Joy Good was eight months pregnant. Fortunately, she was rescued from a rubber dinghy bobbing off the coast of Spain last August. The 20-year-old had started her trip to Spain from a small N