Sex Trafficking

April 6, 2015

Protecting Your Teen from a Pimp

Pimps are master manipulators.  They are talented actors and salespeople and target girls who are emotionally vulnerable. From promising to help pay for …

April 2, 2015

Protecting Children from Human Trafficking

This April, in honor of National Child Abuse Prevention Month, Human Trafficking Search and youthSpark are hosting a month-long campaign …

March 30, 2015

“Welcome my daughter, welcome my sister”: An interview with Linda EagleSpeaker

Linda EagleSpeaker works at the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center (MIWRC) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she and other staff have …

March 17, 2015

Pending Human Trafficking Legislation

Within the last few weeks the United States Congress has considered a number of bills related to human trafficking. The …

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March 3, 2015

Prosecuting Human Trafficking in the United States: State and Federal Jurisdictions

Since 2000, efforts to fight human trafficking have been actively pursued through legal means in the United States, especially through …

February 23, 2015

The Business Case for Survivors of Trafficking

Four years ago when I pitched my Indian anti-sex trafficking social enterprise at an investor’s circle in the Bay Area, …

Fifteen Years Fighting for Freedom:  Fifteen Lessons Learned
February 16, 2015

Fifteen Years Fighting for Freedom: Fifteen Lessons Learned

Free the Slaves fifteenth anniversary is a good moment to distill lessons learned from years working with slaves, survivors, activists …

February 9, 2015

The Economics of Human Trafficking:  An Intersection of Vulnerability and Exploitation

Kay Chernush The role of every article about human trafficking is to provide information with the goal of preventing and …

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February 2, 2015

Two Years of the HTS Blog

Two years ago this last week the first HTS blog post was published. In the post, we explained that the …

December 30, 2014

National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month

In 2007 the U.S. Senate designated January 11 as National Day of Human Trafficking Awareness. While never passed in the …