Justice may finally come for the victims of this trafficker. A news-roundup is below, outlining the charges he is facing, the journalist whose relentless coverage brought him down, and the decades worth of his behavior that fits the description of the current, most commonplace pimping coercive and controlling behavior happening in all of our neighborhoods…
View detailsWhile this article is an in-depth study on the labor trafficking across agricultural fields in Italy, the survivor accounts and experiences, and the traffickers’ behavior, are identical to the reality in every nation that relies on agriculture as part of their economy. Select excerpts are below, but the entire longform article is worth reading. It…
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Edit: See the full letter with signatories, available here. Survivors of sex trafficking wrote an open letter to the presidential candidates about their position on legalization of the sex trade, imploring the candidates to take their lived experiences and recommendations into account. It is open for signatory support from fellow survivors, and individual and organizational allies…
View detailsIt was an honor for our CEO Rochelle Keyhan to speak alongside our partners ThetaRay about their groundbreaking unsupervised machine learning, and ways high tech data solutions can help us end human trafficking. We were on the AI track and spoke alongside impressive experts from Cambridge and Georgetown, Antoine Blondeau, the creator of the AI technology behind Siri, and…
View detailsMass Challenge Austin Texas 2019 Finalist Cohort Launch Day Busy week this week! We are training statewide code enforcement and department of health officials in Florida and attending the MassChallengeTexas BootCamp in Austin! The MassChallenge program identifies promising startups all over the world, and has a 10% acceptance rate for its finalist cohorts. We are proud…
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All industries should be held accountable for the way they treat and protect their employees. The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre gives us an eye opening account of the tuna fishing industry and the lack of concern for individual liberties among some of the major companies. To shift toward more ethical consumption – consider…
View detailsThe obstacles we encounter here in the United States, with laws that vary by jurisdiction, and enforcement and interpretations of those laws being even more subjective, are global problems. Our CEO learned about these shared concerns across Europe at the RENATE annual conference in Sweden, and Thomson Reuters Foundation is covering similar complaints out of…
View detailsIn order to fully understand the ways survivors experience their exploitation and the ways traffickers defraud and coerce victims from other nations, we have to make an effort to understand the conditions survivors and traffickers experience in the source countries. Thomson Reuters Foundation’s recent piece on sex trafficking of N. Korean women in China is…
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Collective Liberty joins MassChallenge’s global network of startups Austin, TX, May 15, 2019 – Yesterday, Collective Liberty was selected to participate in the MassChallenge Texas in Austin 2019 accelerator program. Collective Liberty was one of over 650 other startups to apply for the accelerator located in Austin, Texas. “We are really excited to have the support…
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Our CEO was in Sweden this past week with the RENATE network of survivor support agencies. As a group, throughout the week, we discussed the ways human trafficking manifests in our various countries, the ways the laws are written and the strength with which they are enforced. We had guest lectures from global field experts,…
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