Language Matters: 5 Ways Your Words Impact Trafficking Survivors
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Language Matters: 5 Ways Your Words Impact Trafficking Survivors

Language matters. Word choices are powerful. This is particularly important to keep in mind in the work of reducing and preventing human trafficking and supporting survivors. The way in which human trafficking is described or discussed can – often despite the very best intentions – feel tokenizing or triggering to survivors when they have gotten…

FIDA: Open letter to President Ruto on tracking GBV impact – The Star
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FIDA: Open letter to President Ruto on tracking GBV impact – The Star

Dear H.E. Dr. William Samoei Ruto, CGH. President of the Republic of Kenya and Commander-In-Chief of the Kenya Defence Forces Your Excellency, this year as we celebrate the 16 days of activism, our theme is “Activism to end violence against women and girls”. Due to the impunity, secrecy, stigma, and shame surrounding it, violence against women and…

COP27: the impact of climate change on modern slavery must not be ignored
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COP27: the impact of climate change on modern slavery must not be ignored

7 November 2022 Image credit: Thammachak Sotiya, via Shutterstock. This year we have seen the devastating impact on human lives by environmental events, amplified by climate change, such as the floods in Pakistan and devastating drought in the Horn of Africa, caused by five years of lack of rain. We know that in many cases…

Guardian Group: 2022 Third Quarter Impact Report
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Guardian Group: 2022 Third Quarter Impact Report

Project 1591® launched on July 13th and after years of refining and testing the process and platform we are thrilled to see it actively increasing the number of people working to identify potential victims of sex trafficking. To date we have volunteers across 16 states and 5 countries outside the US that have completed training…

The Decoder: Ghislaine Maxwell’s First Prison Interview And Its Impact On Her ‘Dear Friend’ Prince Andrew
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The Decoder: Ghislaine Maxwell’s First Prison Interview And Its Impact On Her ‘Dear Friend’ Prince Andrew

She’s much more comfortable now in her slightly more permanent digs of Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Tallahassee, the impeccably Oxford-educated 80s It-Girl and convicted felon Ghislaine Maxwell. She can bend the language to elide damning detail while seeming to offer it, she can paint an image with shadows of connotation and denotation. Mainly, though, the…

Ukraine Response: Impact Report
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Ukraine Response: Impact Report

March – October 2022 On February 24th 2022, we knew we had the opportunity and responsibility to move fast, forward and together. To put our model to the test and see if we could get ahead of organised trafficking networks. Our work utilises the connecting power of technology. When we collect information, no matter how…

Global Perspectives on the Health and Social Impacts of Child Trafficking

Global Perspectives on the Health and Social Impacts of Child Trafficking

Article available here. Paper (PDF) available here. Background and objectives: Survivors of child sex trafficking (CST) experience many health and social sequelae as a result of stigma, discrimination, and barriers to health care. Our objective was to obtain a cross-cultural understanding of these barriers and to explore the relationship between stigmatization and health outcomes through…

Guardian Group: 2022 Second Quarter Impact Report
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Guardian Group: 2022 Second Quarter Impact Report

Over the last few years, the need for a scalable solution to match the ever-increasing domestic trafficking problem has been in the forefront of our minds. The time has come to make this solution a reality and therefore most of our efforts throughout the last quarter have been focused on completing the development and testing…

Global Social Impact Agency Hive Rebrands As “WRTHY,” Expanding Its Offerings In New Fundraising Models, Products For Purpose, And Gaming For Good
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Global Social Impact Agency Hive Rebrands As “WRTHY,” Expanding Its Offerings In New Fundraising Models, Products For Purpose, And Gaming For Good

The Award-Winning Agency Will Continue to Develop Innovative Social Impact Strategies, Campaigns and Initiatives to Tackle Some of the Most Challenging Issues Facing the World Today NEW YORK, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Hive, the award-winning social impact agency announced today it will now be known as “WRTHY” as it expands its team, offerings and…