Posts by: Human Trafficking Search

Human Trafficking and Prison Labor, Part 1: An Overview
February 11, 2020

Human Trafficking and Prison Labor, Part 1: An Overview

This is the first in a three-part blog series authored by Polaris to introduce the issue.  Read part two here, …

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How Can Mobile Technology Help Detect and Mitigate Migrants’ Labor Abuse in Global Supply Chains?
February 4, 2020

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

You have a friend who has a friend who was able to send enough money back home to his family …

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Sex Trafficking and the Super Bowl
January 21, 2020

Sex Trafficking and the Super Bowl

On February 2, the Kansas City Chiefs will face off against the San Francisco 49ers during Super Bowl LIV in …

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The Current Administration Claims to Want to Fight Human Trafficking. But Its Policies Undermine Trafficking Victims.
January 14, 2020

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

The current administration has claimed that one of its highest priorities is fighting human trafficking. But significant changes to immigration …

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Remediation and Elimination of Recruitment Costs Charged to Migrant Workers
January 3, 2020

Remediation and Elimination of Recruitment Costs Charged to Migrant Workers

Guest post by Verité, originally posted on Verité’s website   Migrant workers are frequently confronted with a choice: pay illegal …

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Slave-free Holiday Shopping
December 17, 2019

Slave-free Holiday Shopping

The holiday season is upon us.  Along with cookie exchanges and holiday parties, many of us mark the season by …

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Preventing Goods Made with Forced Labor from Entering the United States
December 4, 2019

Preventing Goods Made with Forced Labor from Entering the United States

Forced labor is used to produce a wide array of goods.  For example, The New York Times, produced a series …

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Truck Stops and Trafficking
November 19, 2019

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.

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Bringing “<em>The Transformation</em>” to Trafficked Girls in LA; An Interview with Toni Bankston, LCSW [Part 3]
November 5, 2019

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)

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What’s in Your Chocolate this Halloween?
October 29, 2019

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. 

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