Posts by: Human Trafficking Search

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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Bringing “<em>The Transformation</em>” to Trafficked Girls in LA; An Interview with Toni Bankston, LCSW [Part 2]
October 22, 2019

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)

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Bringing “<em>The Transformation</em>” to Trafficked Girls in LA; An Interview with Toni Bankston, LCSW [Part 1]
October 8, 2019

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)

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Spotlighting Action: Migrants Empowering Migrant Guestworkers through the Power of Information and Technology at Contratados.org
September 8, 2019

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.

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Worst States for Human Trafficking 2015-2017
June 19, 2019

Worst States for Human Trafficking 2015-2017

Find out what states have the most trafficking cases reported to the National Human Trafficking Hotline

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