In McLennan County, TX, population 250,000, their sheriff’s department is all hands on deck to end human trafficking. Over the weekend – their patrol guys detected 3 separate human trafficking situations that could easily have been overlooked or ignored – and when they notified their human trafficking department – the lead detective showed up for…
National Domestic Workers Alliance was on Capital Hill this week to talk to legislators about the importance of our National Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. A Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Act. was proposed in the Congress by Senator Kamala Harris and Representative Pramila Jayapal. “If it passes into law, the bill could codify the workplace protections…
Back in February, our CEO wrote about R. Kelly’s human trafficking behavior for the Thomson Reuters Foundation News and challenged the criminal justice system to hold him accountable. 5 months later and he has been arrested for human trafficking. We are invigorated to see multiple powerful men being held accountable for sex trafficking and exploiting women. Behavior…
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…
While 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…
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…
It 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…
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…
The 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…
In 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…