Donna Bruce was teaching a beauty class in Baltimore when one of her students blindsided her. In front of the entire class, “The student said I was a crackhead who has prostitution on her record out loud in front of everybody,” recalled Bruce. “It was the most humiliating thing.” In fact, Bruce had been trafficked […]
Source: Washington Post
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Maryland Needs to Criminalize Labor Trafficking
Two young women from Africa recently escaped from an a large home in the affluent suburb of Potomac, Maryland. They were forced to work 18 hour days seven days a week and were paid only 50 cents an hour. The family they worked for seized their passports, thus preventing them from fleeing, and threatened to […]
Ivanka Trump Praises President Trump’s ‘Bold Action’
In an op-ed penned in the Washington Post, Ivanka Trump says President Trump’s administration is taking bold action against human trafficking, hitting countries that fail to tackle the crime with financial penalties. Specifically, she points to countries ranked in Tier 3 of the US Trafficking in Persons Report, a global ranking of countries based on […]
South Korea Apologizes for Brothers Home Atrocities
South Korea’s top public prosecutor has apologized for a failed investigation into the enslavement and horrendous human rights violations of thousands at a facility for vagrants — called Brothers Home — in the 1970s and 1980s. The apology comes nearly three decades after the owner of the facility was acquitted of serious charges. “The past […]
Saudi Royal Scandal in the DC Suburbs
At 17,000 square feet, complete with eight bathrooms, six bedroom suites, 14 living areas, the mansion on Aziza Court in Great Falls, Virginia is fit for royalty. An old real estate listing video even called it where “you can envision a princess losing her glass slipper as she runs down the staircase.” It’s perhaps fitting […]
Patchwork of Programs for US Child Sex Trafficking Victims
After the last time Cecilia Roberts was sold for sex out of an Atlanta hotel room, she was taken to a residential facility to recover from her trauma and help prosecutors convict her two traffickers. She was only 17 at the time, and she ended up spending a year at the 15-bed residence in Georgia […]
Brazil’s Coffee Farm Workers File OECD Complaint over Slave Labor
When Abelar Rebouças was finally rescued in 2016 by police from a coffee plantation in southern Brazil he was bone thin. His employer refused to pay the 51-year-old his salary, forcing him to resort to living off papayas and rice. His drinking water came from a ditch. “It was a difficult life that I don’t wish on […]
ICE is Deporting Mauritanians Back to Modern-Day Slavery
The West African nation of Mauritania has tens of thousands of citizens trapped chattel slavery, with darker-skinned Mauritanians being treated as the property of their lighter-skinned Arab and Berber countrymen. It is for this reason that undocumented black Mauritanians were rarely deported from the United States in the past — sending them back would have […]
Has FOSTA-SESTA Eliminated 90% of Online Sex Trafficking Ads?
In April, President Trump signed into law FOSTA-SESTA in an attempt to cut down on online sex trafficking ads. Five months later, sponsors of the House bill, Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), and Senate bill, Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) claim to be winning the fight against traffickers. Rep. Ann Wagner, the key […]
$8 Million Awarded to Kansas Trafficking Victim, Largest in U.S. History
A woman who was trafficked for forced labor for 10 years across the United States has been awarded $8 million by a federal judge in Kansas — the largest sum ever awarded to a trafficking victim in the country. Call on Congress to prevent child trafficking. Kendra Ross, now 27, was exploited by a group […]