The Center for Court Innovation is currently working on a project funded by OVC, to create a package of informational materials for child trafficking survivors, to support them during their justice system […]
ICE raids: Why aren’t corporate officials accountable for exploitative hiring practices?
Did you know that a 10 lb bag of chicken quarters cost $4.99 in Austin, TX the day ICE arrested 680 at poultry processing farms – farms where people were responsible for hand cutting each quarter? Our demand for cheap goods is a contributing factor to the exploitation in the poultry processing industry.
Source Country Conditions Impact Destination Country Exploitation
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.
If you were a new donor to the anti-slavery sector, what would you fund?
Dan Vexler, Director of Programs at Freedom Fund, recently contributed a piece to the Thomson Reuters foundation about where investors can have the most anti-slavery impact with their donations. Read excerpts below, or the full piece here.
Artificial Intelligence and combating Human trafficking with Financial Crimes
Excellent conversation at our innovation panel on AI and combatting Human trafficking with Financial Crimes at ACAMS Hollywood, FL. We are so excited to partner with international AI/ML big data analytics firm, ThetaRay, to work together to apply their artificial intelligence to our anti-trafficking data to be able to better predict and disrupt human trafficking!
Dallas Crimes Against Women Conference 2019
It was our CEO’s third year in a row presenting at this conference, but first time presenting with our strong law enforcement field partners from BJA anti trafficking task forces.
U.S. Department of Transportation Advisory Committee on Human Trafficking meeting
Today we are at the U.S. Department of Transportation Advisory Committee on Human Trafficking meeting. The investment from the transportation sector in developing a concerted anti-trafficking approach is critical to […]
In the Press: Advocates say Bay Area set precedent in Florida for tackling sex trafficking
Recent high profile illicit massage parlor investigations have renewed attention to law enforcement efforts to focus on penalizing traffickers in an attempt to eliminate exploitation and support survivors of human […]
Portugal tackles labor trafficking on farms but resources scarce
Models of behavior used by traffickers to recruit and exploit victims are almost identical across the world. Agricultural labor traffickers in Portugal, for example, fraudulently recruit migrant workers from neighboring […]
Did you know there’s a Patron Saint of Trafficking?
St. Josephine Bakhita, Patron Saint of Sudan and human trafficking survivors Today, February 8, is the International Day of Prayer for Victims of Human Trafficking. It is also the feast […]
