Atlanta

Atlanta is a city located in the southeastern United States and is a major hub for transportation, commerce, and industry. Unfortunately, it is also a known hotspot for human trafficking.

Atlanta’s strategic location and status as a major transportation hub make it attractive to traffickers, who often use the city’s highways and airports to transport victims across state and national borders. Additionally, Atlanta’s large and diverse population, with many vulnerable individuals and communities, makes it a target for traffickers seeking to exploit and profit from others’ vulnerabilities.

Despite these challenges, Atlanta has also become a center for efforts to combat human trafficking. Numerous nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and community groups are working together to raise awareness about trafficking, provide support to survivors, and hold traffickers accountable. These efforts include education and outreach campaigns, provision of social services to survivors, and enhanced law enforcement efforts to identify and prosecute traffickers.

One notable initiative in Atlanta is the “ATL Trafficking Task Force,” which brings together representatives from multiple agencies, including law enforcement, healthcare providers, and nonprofit organizations, to coordinate anti-trafficking efforts across the city. The Task Force focuses on prevention, prosecution, and protection, and aims to improve collaboration and information-sharing among its members to maximize impact.

While Atlanta continues to face significant challenges related to human trafficking, the city’s commitment to addressing this issue and the dedicated efforts of its many partners offer hope for a brighter future for those affected by trafficking.

UN Report Urges End to Forced US Prison Labor—a ‘Contemporary Form of Slavery’
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UN Report Urges End to Forced US Prison Labor—a ‘Contemporary Form of Slavery’

A report published Thursday by United Nations human rights experts condemns systemic racism in the U.S. criminal justice system and policing, while describing “appalling” prison conditions and decrying forced unpaid convict labor as a “contemporary form of slavery.” The U.N. International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in the Context of Law…

CR Ep 094: Human Trafficking Preventucation with Billy Joe Cain and NASA UAP Report with Mike Turber
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CR Ep 094: Human Trafficking Preventucation with Billy Joe Cain and NASA UAP Report with Mike Turber

Posted on September 20, 2023 Read the original on CuriousRealm.com here. In the first part of this episode of the Curious Realm host Christopher Jordan welcomes founder of Radical Empathy Education Foundation and co-founder of PBJ Learning, Billy Joe Cain. We discuss recent developments in the cause of human trafficking prevention, and how groundbreaking technologies like Virtual Reality can…

What is 21st Century Fascism? The Dictatorship of Big Money
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What is 21st Century Fascism? The Dictatorship of Big Money

Photo by Christine Roy Twenty-first-century fascism is the dictatorship of big money. Finance, fossil fuels giants, other large corporations, and the military-industrial complex, have effectively merged with the state, calling the shots in Washington. An immense surveillance and propaganda machine is at their disposal. Narrative and information control is the first line of defense but the militarized…

Lawyer who prosecuted first federal human trafficking case in Georgia to speak at free event
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Lawyer who prosecuted first federal human trafficking case in Georgia to speak at free event

Experts have said that Savannah has an acute sex trafficking problem. Compared to communities of similar size and population, Savannah is a target largely because of the ports, the I-95 corridor and the tourism industry, in addition to relatively close proximity to major sex trafficking hubs, such as Miami, Atlanta and Tampa. On Sept. 20,…

FBI, Homeland Security discuss efforts to fight human trafficking
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FBI, Homeland Security discuss efforts to fight human trafficking

Human sex trafficking isn’t what most people think it is, according to FBI Special Agent Taylor Dervish. Dervish, who is assigned to the Atlanta Violent Crimes Against Children Task Force Program, spoke Tuesday to a joint meeting of the Carpet Capital Rotary Club and the Rotary Club of Dalton. “The task force is the largest in…

Florence nonprofit helps victims of human trafficking, prostitution and addiction
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Florence nonprofit helps victims of human trafficking, prostitution and addiction

FLORENCE, Ala. (WHNT) — A Florence nonprofit is hoping to empower women who have lived through human trafficking, prostitution and addiction. Holos Hope says they are fighting back against the billion-dollar human trafficking industry by helping women change their lives. “Taking that first step takes a lot of courage, and you can still be afraid….

AAHOA Backs Best Practices, Enhanced Reporting Requirements to End Human Trafficking
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AAHOA Backs Best Practices, Enhanced Reporting Requirements to End Human Trafficking

ATLANTA, Ga. – Hotels and motels are on the front lines of preventing and intercepting human sex and labor trafficking. AAHOA (Asian American Hotel Owners Association), the largest hotel owners association in the world, has been working with its 20,000 members to promote awareness and prevention strategies for trafficking. As the owners of 34,000 hotels…

Human trafficking ring in metro Atlanta | Conyers man wanted, accused of trafficking 3 girls
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Human trafficking ring in metro Atlanta | Conyers man wanted, accused of trafficking 3 girls

Terry Florence is on of 11 men indicted in a trafficking ring uncovered after a missing 17-year-old Missouri girl was rescued in a US Marshals operation in Atlanta. ATLANTA — As the Attorney General‘s Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit continues to get indictments on suspects accused of buying and selling victims for sex across metro Atlanta,…

New agriculture commissioner moves to protect Georgia’s leading industry
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New agriculture commissioner moves to protect Georgia’s leading industry

Six months into his new job, Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tyler Harper, a native of Ocilla and a seventh-generation farmer, is moving to protect and promote Georgia agriculture — the state’s leading industry, with an annual economic impact of more than $74 billion. Enhancing food safety and security was among the priorities stressed on the campaign…

United Way Worldwide and Survivor Alliance Unveil Fellowship for Survivors of Human Trafficking
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United Way Worldwide and Survivor Alliance Unveil Fellowship for Survivors of Human Trafficking

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