Posts by: Human Trafficking Search

February 10, 2014

Forced Labor During the Sochi Winter Olympics

As we have written about in a previous blog, sex trafficking increases at major sporting events that draw in crowds …

February 3, 2014

Fighting Human Trafficking Through Art

As a photographer, I became aware of human trafficking for the first time in 2005 during an assignment for the …

January 28, 2014

A Crime Against Humanity

Many religious faiths have taken up the issue of human trafficking, but few religious leaders have openly denounced slavery as …

January 20, 2014

Largest Human Trafficking Incident in America

In early 2011 the Texas Attorney General shocked the public by announcing that the Super Bowl is the single largest …

January 13, 2014

Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month

In early 2012, President Obama declared January, National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Throughout the month of January and …

Communities Vulnerable to Human Trafficking: Children Without Biological Families
December 23, 2013

Communities Vulnerable to Human Trafficking: Children Without Biological Families

In the third blog of the three part series on communities vulnerable to human trafficking, we discuss children living without …

December 16, 2013

Communities Vulnerable to Human Trafficking: Refugees

In the second of the three-part blog on vulnerable communities, we will be addressing the topic of human trafficking within …

December 9, 2013

Communities Vulnerable to Human Trafficking: Migrants

This is the first of a three part blog series on communities vulnerable to human trafficking and currently migrants represent …

Gang Involvement with Human Trafficking
November 18, 2013

Gang Involvement with Human Trafficking

Sex trafficking Sex trafficking has traditionally been propagated by small-time local opportunists looking to make a large profit with little …

Sex Trafficking of LGBT Youth
November 11, 2013

Sex Trafficking of LGBT Youth

There is a disproportionate number of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth in the commercially sexually exploited population. The …