Thursday, October 8, 2015 - 9:51amConcordia Summit Spotlights Labor TraffickingAnnick FebreyLast week Concordia hosted their fifth [...]
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Rethink Supply Chains — A Humanity United Competition
Rethink Supply Chains is an initiative to keep labor trafficking out of supply chains. It is a collaborative effort between Humanity [...]
Indiana Fights Human Trafficking
Thursday, October 15, 2015 - 10:07amIndiana Tackles TraffickingChristopher PlummerThe Hoosier State is upping its game to disrupt the [...]
ASEAN, an Opportunity for Obama to Discuss Trafficking
US President Obama is meeting with ten Southeast Asian leaders during the annual Association of Southeast Asiian Nations Summit called [...]
Henry “Box” Brown, An Abolitionist and Inspiration
Thursday, October 29, 2015 - 3:52pmHistorical Abolitionist of the Month: Henry “Box” BrownBy Katie Masi
SXSW Interactive Austin 2016
At SXSW in Austin, Human Rights First will put the spotlight on human trafficking. It will begin with a panel called How to Fight [...]
India Creates Roadblocks for Survivors
Many trafficking survivors learn that their families are prone to the wrath of their traffickers, but India maintains its Tier 2 [...]
Developing Countries Account for 7% of Global Slavery
Developing countries like those in North America, the European Union, Australia, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Iceland, Norway and [...]
Role of Politics in the TIP Report
What role does politics play in the TIP Report? Seven days before the release of the TIP Report, the U.S. and Cuba took steps to [...]
Trafficking Lawsuits; Corporate Liability
Trafficking lawsuits have recently addressed human slavery in the supply chains of large companies, setting precedents for [...]
Victims Find Help through Anti-Trafficking Organizations
Two million in the U.S. work as domestic laborers and some of those are trafficked. These jobs include dishwashers, nannies, maids, [...]
U.S. Customs Enforce Ban on Slave-Produced Goods
The U.S. Customs last week issued two “withhold release” orders that blocked goods suspected of being made with slave labor...
Florida’s Agricultural Labor Trafficking
For more than twenty years, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in central Florida has been a trailblazer against human trafficking in [...]
Luskin Center for Innovation: New Report
Sarah Godoy of the Luskin Center for Innovation just released a new report that indicates there is a need for efforts to quantify human [...]
Forced Labor in Colombia
When it comes to media, these two words seem to be synonymous: Columbia and drug trafficking...
Myth, Traffickers Only Target Poor and Uneducated
Myth, trafficking: Only the poor and uneducated are targeted. While true to some degree, many victims don't fit this description. The [...]
Parasio Honored as Abolitionist of the Month
This December, Human Rights First named Raimi Vincent Parasio as their contemporary abolitionist of the month. In spite of violence [...]
Traffickers Not Always Part of Large Enterprises
Are human traffickers always part of a big illegal enterprises? This misconception is a myth. The truth is that it happens in many [...]
Summit Suggests Human Trafficking Solutions
Labor Secretary Perez at the Human Rights First Summit praises the work of abolitionists who have seen significant successes in the [...]
Anti-Trafficking Efforts in India Must Improve
Anti-trafficking efforts in India must improve, based on the latest TIP Report...
Funding in Omnibus Package to Fight Trafficking
Funding in Omnibus to fight trafficking. The recent spending package includes $25 million targeted at fighting human trafficking. [...]
More Trafficking Prosecutions Needed in U.S.
Statistics show that the U.S. had a 61% increase in human trafficking convictions in 2015, yet still falls behind in its efforts to [...]
First Session on Human Trafficking Hosted by U.N. Security Council
The First Session on Human Trafficking was hosted by the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday. The session was introduced by Nick Grono [...]
Palm Oil Industry and Slavery Concerns
Palm oil is found in nearly half of all common grocery and household items.