Anti-Trafficking Groups

Each item relates in some way to a group, organization, or community that has a major or minor focus on ending trafficking.

Examples: law enforcement, a specific non-profit, or even an individual advocate who speaks for others.

JUNE 8, 2022 SOAR to Health and Wellness Training | The Administration for Children and Families
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JUNE 8, 2022 SOAR to Health and Wellness Training | The Administration for Children and Families

ByEyes on Trafficking News

  June 8, 2022:Jeri Moomaw, SOAR Certified Trainer, NHTTACDr. Kanani Titchen, SOAR Certified Trainer, NHTTAC Program Agenda (All times in eastern time zone.) 1:00 – 1:40 p.m.           Introduction and Overview (40 Minutes) 1:40 – 2:00 p.m.          Stop (20 Minutes) 2:00 – 2:15 p.m.          Observe (15 Minutes) 2:15 – 2:35 p.m.       …

Exploitation and Abuse: The Scale and Scope of Human Trafficking in South Eastern Europe
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Exploitation and Abuse: The Scale and Scope of Human Trafficking in South Eastern Europe

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Vienna (Austria), 31 May 2022 – Migrants on their way from Asia to Europe are being forced to work in the construction, agriculture, and hospitality sectors by human traffickers who abuse their irregular status and fear of deportation. Children, often exploited by their own family members, are compelled to commit crimes that include pickpocketing, robbery,…

Who Traffickers Target
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Who Traffickers Target

ByEyes on Trafficking News

In many ways, human trafficking is as much of an economic problem as it is a social justice issue. Traffickers see exploitation as a lucrative supply-and-demand business, with its victims as an expendable commodity. Because of this, traffickers are opportunistic. They seek out vulnerable people, those who are easier to recruit, have fewer safety nets,…

Homeland Security recovers 70 missing children and human trafficking victims in Texas operation – WCLU
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Homeland Security recovers 70 missing children and human trafficking victims in Texas operation – WCLU

ByEyes on Trafficking News

According to a release from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a three-week operation in west Texas dubbed “Operation Lost Souls” has led to the recovery of 70 missing children as well as sex trafficking victims. The investigation was conducted by the Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) and ran from the end of April through mid-May…

“UNITAS Parents & Caretakers Guide”
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“UNITAS Parents & Caretakers Guide”

ByBilly Joe Cain

Lights, a 9 video “Parents & Caretakers Guide” series from UNITAS‘s YouTube Channel From UNITAS: Our Parent and Caretaker guide offers critical information for parents, caretakers and teachers that will enable them to understand the issue of human trafficking, how it impacts the children in their lives, and how to talk to their children about such…

Vancouver Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Child Sex Trafficking – Department of Justice
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Vancouver Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Child Sex Trafficking – Department of Justice

ByEyes on Trafficking News

PORTLAND, Ore.—A Vancouver, Washington man was sentenced to federal prison today for facilitating and benefitting from the sex trafficking of multiple children. Keonte Desmond Scott, 24, was sentenced to 97 months in federal prison and five years’ supervised release. According to court documents and trial testimony, in 2016, after he was released from prison, Scott…

Beautiful things happen when we work together
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Beautiful things happen when we work together

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Beautiful things happen when we work together. Lush donated over 400 pounds of personal care items – shower gel, conditioner, lotion, and more – for our case management clients! Thank you, Lush, for partnering with us to create a world where all may live free! EYES ON TRAFFICKING This “Eyes on Trafficking” story is reprinted…

70 missing children, including sex trafficking victims, found in Texas operation – FOX 10 News Phoenix
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70 missing children, including sex trafficking victims, found in Texas operation – FOX 10 News Phoenix

ByEyes on Trafficking News

EL PASO, Texas – U.S. authorities said 70 missing children, ranging in ages from 10 to 17, were recently found after a three-week-long operation based in Texas. Many of the kids, who included victims of sex trafficking and physical and sexual abuse, were located in West Texas, according to authorities. Some were also found in…

Advocacy Network for Children to co-host human trafficking training on Thursday – Muddy River News – Muddy River News
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Advocacy Network for Children to co-host human trafficking training on Thursday – Muddy River News – Muddy River News

ByEyes on Trafficking News

QUINCY — Advocacy Network for Children, together with the Central Illinois Human Trafficking Taskforce and Truckers Against Trafficking, is sponsoring a human trafficking awareness training from 9-11:30 a.m. Thursday, June 2, at Madison Park Christian Church, 4700 Broadway. The training is free and breakfast will be provided. Registration begins at 8:15 a.m. The course will…

Opinion | Human trafficking threatens our society – Daily Illini
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Opinion | Human trafficking threatens our society – Daily Illini

ByEyes on Trafficking News

In the United States, slavery may be remembered as an abolished practice of the past, but it is still happening here today. It has been carried on through a new, illegal outlet: human trafficking. The Department of Homeland Security defines human trafficking as “the use of force, fraud or coercion to obtain some type of labor…