Human Trafficking Search (HTS) seeks to raise awareness and help prevent and eliminate human trafficking worldwide.

How Students Can Help Address the Exploitation of Incarcerated Workers

A Call for Catalytic Investment in Prevention and Strategic Global Leadership in Anti-Trafficking Efforts

Donating to Anti-Trafficking Organizations

Opaque Supply Chains are Hiding Whether the Fashion Industry is Benefiting from State-Imposed Forced Labor

How Child Labor Could Be Fueling Your Electric Car

An Anti-Trafficking Holiday Shopping Guide

Nebraska, Utah Vote to Eliminate Slavery as Punishment for a Crime

Four Ways the Current Administration has Weakened Protections Against Labor Exploitation and Trafficking

The Moment of Truth for the Global Seafood Industry

Incarcerated Firefighters

There Could be Labor Exploitation in Your Coffee Cup: Here’s How It Got There

Race and Intersectional Identities within Modern Slavery and Human Rights
Is Freedom for India’s Children Only a Temporary Respite?
Solidarity Against Modern Slavery During COVID-19

The Department of State’s 2020 Trafficking in Persons Report

Addressing Human Trafficking: Let’s Shift the Onus from Individuals to Businesses and Policy Makers

Why Online Exploitation Is The Next Public Health Crisis

Is Prison Labor Hiding in Your Portfolio?


The Protesters and Prison Labor


Domestic Workers, Forced Labor, and the Locked Doors of Covid-19



Human Trafficking and Prison Labor, Part 3: Incarcerated Workers and COVID-19


After Decades of Voluntary Corporate Efforts, Child Labor is Still Being Used to Make Chocolate


COVID-19 and Human Trafficking


State-level Guidance Relating to COVID-19 and Foster Care


Coronavirus and Human Trafficking, Domestic Violence, and Child Abuse


Tackling Modern Slavery with Blockchain


Human Trafficking and Prison Labor, Part 2: Understanding the Types of Prison Labor
Most people assume that in 1865 with the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment slavery in the United States was abolished. However, forced labor still exists in the United States today through the exception built into the Thirteenth Amendment for those who have been “duly convicted of a crime”. This exception made it legal and permissible to continue slavery within prisons in the United States. This is commonly known now as prison labor.


Human Trafficking and Prison Labor, Part 1: An Overview


How Can Mobile Technology Help Detect and Mitigate Migrants’ Labor Abuse in Global Supply Chains?


Sex Trafficking and the Super Bowl


The Current Administration Claims to Want to Fight Human Trafficking. But Its Policies Undermine Trafficking Victims.


Remediation and Elimination of Recruitment Costs Charged to Migrant Workers


Slave-free Holiday Shopping


Preventing Goods Made with Forced Labor from Entering the United States


Truck Stops and Trafficking
Throughout the holiday season, many people take long road trips to visit family and friends. The week of Thanksgiving is the busiest travel time of the year in the United States, with 54 percent more drivers taking long trips than at any other time of the year. Truck stops and rest stops along heavily populated highways are popular locations for sex traffickers to sell their victims.




Bringing “The Transformation” to Trafficked Girls in LA; An Interview with Toni Bankston, LCSW [Part 3]
James S. Gordon, author of “The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma“, interviews Toni Bankston, a clinical social worker and Executive Director of the Baton Rouge Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC)


What’s in Your Chocolate this Halloween?
The majority of cocoa, the main ingredient in chocolate, comes from just two countries – Ghana and Cote D’Ivoire. In both countries child labor in the cocoa sector is prevalent.




Bringing “The Transformation” to Trafficked Girls in LA; An Interview with Toni Bankston, LCSW [Part 2]
James S. Gordon, author of “The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma“, interviews Toni Bankston, a clinical social worker and Executive Director of the Baton Rouge Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC)




Bringing “The Transformation” to Trafficked Girls in LA; An Interview with Toni Bankston, LCSW [Part 1]
James S. Gordon, author of “The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma”, interviews Toni Bankston, a clinical social worker and Executive Director of the Baton Rouge Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC)


Spotlighting Action: Migrants Empowering Migrant Guestworkers through the Power of Information and Technology at Contratados.org
Contratados.org is a portal, made by immigrants, for immigrant guestworkers, that provides secure anonymous employer reviews. This allows migrants in the guestworker program to regain some power in the inherently employer-favored power dynamic that the H2-A and H2-B guestworker visas promote.



Copy of – What’s Behind Your Cup of Tea?
70,000 cups of tea are consumed globally every second! As the world’s top beverage after water, learn how this massive industry is key in combatting unfair labor practices.


Worst States for Human Trafficking 2015-2017
Find out what states have the most trafficking cases reported to the National Human Trafficking Hotline


Liverpool Football Club’s Anti-Slavery Statement, an Industry Model
Liverpool, a top football club, is setting a positive example for the sport’s industry with their newly released anti-trafficking statement. This kind of corporate responsibility should be enacted in all industries to effectively fight human trafficking.



What’s Behind Your Cup of Tea?
70,000 cups of tea are consumed globally every second! As the world’s top beverage after water, learn how this massive industry is key in combatting unfair labor practices.


How Europe’s Migration Policy Helps Human Traffickers
The money invested by Europe to prevent migrants from landing on its shores essentially subsidizes and boosts human smuggling profits. The more complex the border crossing, the more sophisticated the help that is needed. The more involved and risky the assistance, the more expensive it is, leading to an increase in fees, leading to more pay-later schemes – creating optimal conditions for human trafficking. Read more on how European immigration policies are bolstering the trafficking economy.


Will Brexit Benefit Human Traffickers? The Increased Risks in a Post-Brexit Europe
Experts worry that Brexit will result in a surge of trafficking victims, and present new obstacles to prevention and prosecution. Although the UK has made tackling human trafficking a priority, there are as yet no detailed proposals for how to ensure that Brexit does not hinder the fight against modern slavery.
Can we candidly discuss “the girlfriend experience” and sex trafficking of girls with intellectual disabilities?


Inside Hungary: When Overtime Becomes Slave-like Labor


Human Trafficking Meets Human Smuggling at the Southern Border


Thousands of Unaccompanied Migrant Minors, Unaccounted for


IS IT SLAVERY? CULTURAL COMPETENCE VERSUS CULTURAL RELATIVISM


Working with Interpreters

