A new report from the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has found that the number of trafficked girls rose worldwide, [...]
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WE DID IT! California repeals harmful loitering law
In a win for trafficking victims’ and sex workers’ rights, California’s Governor Newsom signed the Safer Streets for All Act into law [...]
Most Girls Kidnapped by Boko Haram Still Missing
Most of the 278 girls kidnapped from their school dorm in Nigeria two years ago by Boko Haram, are still missing. When the news was [...]
UK Lawmakers Debate Libyan Slave Markets
On Monday British lawmakers expressed their outrage about Libyan slave markets. Footage captured by CNN exposed the selling of African [...]
Joy as Cyntoia Brown Granted Clemency
After 15 years behind bars, Cyntoia Denise Brown has at last been granted clemency by Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam. She is due to be [...]
Partnerships & survivor leadership highlighted in Trafficking in Persons report
On the recent release of the U.S. Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, some advocates are filling in the perceived gaps found in the [...]
Teens Drugged and Smuggled to China
Teens from Vietnam are drugged and smuggled into China to become child brides. Some are as young as 13-years-old and captured by human [...]
What Stops Jordan’s Domestic Workers from Seeking Help?
Isa Al-Maeda says life was difficult as a farmer in the Philippines, but at least she was near her siblings and parents. Wanting her [...]
Pregnant Women Risk Lives Picking World’s Tea
Rama is six months pregnant and worried about giving birth to her child. She’s just 22, earning a living by picking tea leaves on [...]
Opinion: Is protecting children from labor exploitation a distant dream?
Next President Must Prioritize Human Trafficking, An Editorial
Will our next president be committed to ending slavery? The crime of human trafficking is second only to illegal drug trade worldwide, [...]
Why Measuring Modern Slavery is Crucial to Fighting It
According to research by the Walk Free Foundation and the International Labour Organization, in 2016 there were 40.3 million people [...]
New York Street Art Shines a Light on Child Trafficking
A new campaign is using six graffiti murals in New York City to raise awareness of child slavery around the world. NGO Street Art for [...]
Opinion: Is protecting children from labor exploitation a distant dream?
The following is an opinion piece written by executive director of Freedom United, Joanna Ewart-James, for CNN. A 16-year-old boy from [...]
Norma Bastidas, Survivor and Ultra Marathoner
Norma Bastidas is a 49-year-old mother-of-two. She is also a human trafficking survivor. She is also an ultra-marathoner who has [...]
Singapore’s Unpaid Migrant Workers
Although Singapore is known as an efficient, developed country, for many migrant workers from South Asia it is a huge struggle to be [...]
After Escaping ISIS, Yazidis Face Sex Traffickers in Baghdad
Nadia (not her real name) was living in Sinjar in northern Iraq in 2014 when ISIS subjected thousands of women and girls like her to [...]
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Margeaux Gray–Trafficking and Public Health
Margeaux Gray is a remarkable young woman who not only survived physical and emotional captivity, she is teaching us that trafficking [...]
Why Migrants Risk Slavery to Reach Europe
So far this year over 10,000 migrants have attempted to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe. Yet many ask, especially with the news [...]
Rescued Trafficked Nigerians Held in Abhorrent Shelters
Nigerian women rescued from trafficking in Libya have been returned to Nigeria and placed in “abhorrent” shelters. Many of [...]
Enlist or die: Sudan’s descent into famine, violence, and forced conscription
In mid-December 2023, Sudan’s breadbasket, Al Jazira state, witnessed a chilling ultimatum: “Enlist or die.” The [...]
Who is fighting the fight against trafficking?
Cuba, Kenya and Saudi Arabia are doing better at fighting human trafficking. Egypt, Ghana and Bulgaria are doing worse.
Slavery Still Exists in the Land of the Free
It has been more than 150 years since Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, and though laws have been passed against it almost [...]