Slavery brands, similar to the tattoo that is emblazoned on 19-year-old Adriana's chest, were one signs of ownership that are now being [...]
Source: CNN
As ISIS Declines, Child Slave Trade Persists
Lazem is a four-year-old playing on a corner of waste land, alone with no one to speak to. He is finally safe, but up until a few days [...]
Do You Care About Child Trafficking? Stop Using These Terms
Nearly everyone agrees that children who have been trafficked for sexual exploitation deserve to be treated with care and respect. What [...]
Vacatur Laws Help Victims
Vacatur laws help victims of human trafficking. Nina [not her real name] was 14 when she ran away, met a woman who put her into the [...]
FBI Sex Trafficking Sting Rescues Two Little Sisters
Two little sisters, a 5-year-old and a 3-month old, were rescued from human traffickers by undercover police in Denver as part of the [...]
Dutch Press UN for More Slavery Sanctions
The Dutch will press the UN Security Council to expand sanctions against human traffickers as the UN body meets this Wednesday. In [...]
Backpage.com in Contempt?
Backpage.com has continually failed to comply with the Senate-issued subpoena about a sex-trafficking investigation by citing its First [...]
The Libyan Slave Markets
An auctioneer calls out “800, 900, 1,000, 1,100 …” but he’s not selling off a car or a piece of land. [...]
UN: Libya Sanctions Now Cover Sexual Violence
This Monday the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution to expand sanctions against traffickers in Libya. The Netherlands [...]
Natural disasters and Vulnerable Children
Natural disasters make the work of human traffickers easy. They can easily exploit people--adults and children--in the midst of the chaos...
The Traffickers Exploiting Children in Haiti’s Orphanages
There are over 30,000 children in orphanages in Haiti. But as CNN reports, the government believes that 80% of them aren’t [...]
Facebook Fails to Save Child Bride from Auction
Facebook has come under fire for allowing the “barbaric use of technology” that led to a girl in South Sudan being married [...]
Tea Plantations and Human Trafficking
Young girls living on or near tea plantations --poor, uneducated, and from families in heavy debt--are easy targets for traffickers..
60% of Domestic Workers in Singapore Exploited
A new report from Research Across Borders finds that 60% of domestic workers in Singapore say they have been exploited by their [...]
Drought Gives Families ‘No Choice’ But to Sell Children
A severe drought in Afghanistan has led to families facing an impossible choice: starve or sell your own children to survive? For four [...]
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 [...]
UN: Girls Make Up 23% of World’s Trafficking Victims
A new report from the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has found that the number of trafficked girls rose worldwide, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
