Human Trafficking Types

Super category for all types of trafficking, from child marriage to organ harvesting.

What Every Parent Needs to Know About Child Sex Trafficking
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What Every Parent Needs to Know About Child Sex Trafficking

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Child Sex Trafficking-Not My Child Mom shakes her head and Dad raises his voice. Their 16-year old daughter storms up the stairs. As the bedroom door slams, she collapses on the bed with phone in hand. She’s ready to vent her frustrations one status update at a time. With every angst-laden tap of the keyboard, […]

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Bystanders Vital in Combatting Human Trafficking
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Bystanders Vital in Combatting Human Trafficking

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Despite the fact that human trafficking’s domestic victims are commonly exploited in the sex trade, there are several other commercial realms in which workers are exploited. These are often workers who are considered to be hidden in plain sight because consumers assume they are not being exploited because they are faces of legal businesses, such…

Summit Live Gives A Bigger Voice To Help ERASE
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Summit Live Gives A Bigger Voice To Help ERASE

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We presented a panel of experts from areas where human trafficking is at its worse, southern Florida and southern California. We brought law enforcement and social media together at Summit Live to spread awareness about child trafficking to an audience that had the capabilities to reach hundreds of thousands of people…

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Security Council urges action against human trafficking, sexual abuse by ISIL and other terror groups
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Security Council urges action against human trafficking, sexual abuse by ISIL and other terror groups

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The Security Council today called on all United Nations Member States to do everything in their power to combat human trafficking, especially for sexual purposes, citing the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and Boko Haram as prime perpetrators.

“Humanizing the Prisons” The Atlantic Monthly, August, 1911, issue. Vol. 108, No. 2 (p.170-179).
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“Humanizing the Prisons” The Atlantic Monthly, August, 1911, issue. Vol. 108, No. 2 (p.170-179).

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August 1911Humanizing the Prisonsby Morrison I. Swift The State of Vermont contains a prison where the inmates are treated upon a novel plan. They are trusted and treated like other human beings; they come and go almost as freely as the members of the jailer’s own family; so far as possible whatever suggests punishment or…

Joint Statement
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Joint Statement

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On 31 December 2014, the United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT), an alliance of six organizations committed to combatting human trafficking, concluded its long-standing work towards curbing one of the most heinous crimes and human rights violations of our time. Members of UN.GIFT Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) International…

Trafficking in children on the rise, says new UN report
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Trafficking in children on the rise, says new UN report

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“Unfortunately, the report shows there is no place in the world where children, women and men are safe from human trafficking,” said UNODC Executive Director, Yury Fedotov. “Official data reported to UNODC by national authorities represent only what has been detected. It is very clear that the scale of modern-day slavery is far worse,” he…

2014 Trafficking in Persons Report – Statement by Laura J. Lederer
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2014 Trafficking in Persons Report – Statement by Laura J. Lederer

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“Once again the State Department’s annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report has shed light on the tragedy of modern day slavery. Around the world many men, women, and children are being subjected to inhumane treatment, exploited as commercial sex objects and forced to work as slaves. The TIP Report provides valuable information, and is an […]

Not enough done to reintegrate victims of human trafficking, UN-backed report warns
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Not enough done to reintegrate victims of human trafficking, UN-backed report warns

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“Any support offered to victims of trafficking needs to be given in a way that restores a sense of control for the victims over their own lives,” the regional project manager for the UN Inter-agency Project on Human Trafficking (UNIAP), said of the study, commissioned by the Governments of the Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative against…