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Posts by: Human Trafficking Search
Barriers to Identifying Victims and Helping Survivors: The Case for Considering Culture
Imagine a girl from Bangladesh. Her family is destitute – floods have washed out their crops and her younger siblings …
Can we candidly discuss “the girlfriend experience” and sex trafficking of girls with intellectual disabilities?
One popular way to make light of harm linked to illegal or legal prostitution and to engender empathy for buyers …
What Can Be Done to Prevent Sex Trafficking of Girls in Foster Care?
Protecting our kids from perilous exploitation in sex trafficking is an urgent concern of child protective and child welfare agencies. …
The Opioid Epidemic, Foster Care, and Human Trafficking
As detailed in our interview with Dr. Hanni Stoklosa, the opiate/opioid crisis interacts with human trafficking in a number of …
Human Trafficking & the Opioid Crisis: An Interview with Dr. Hanni Stoklosa
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Kafala System – A Gateway to Slavery
Kafala, sponsorship, is an employment framework in the Gulf States – as well as Lebanon and Jordan – that requires …
Extractive Industries and Human Trafficking in Latin America
Latin America is endowed with some of the world’s largest oil, gas and mineral resources deposits. In the past two …
Human Trafficking and the Rohingya Refugee Crisis
Since August 2017 over 650,000 Rohingya have fled their homes in Myanmar to seek safety in neighboring Bangladesh. Driven from …
Can Myanmar’s Libraries Help Combat Human Trafficking?
This week’s blog is guest authored by Mi Ki Kyaw Myint of The Asia Foundation. In June, the U.S. State Department …
2017 Human Trafficking Statistics
Last week Polaris released the 2017 human trafficking statistics as reported by the National Human Trafficking Hotline (NHTH). The hotline is …