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What Florida is getting right and where it can improve in the fight against human trafficking
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What Florida is getting right and where it can improve in the fight against human trafficking

Kimerbly Weller is living her dream in more ways than one. “I’m the lead nail tech where I work now,” she said, “I have a massive support network. I was reunited with my children.” But she said ten years ago, while struggling with substance abuse, none of this seemed possible. “And I found myself homeless,…

Racism and Human Trafficking
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Racism and Human Trafficking

As I commemorated Martin Luther King, Jr. this week and thought about racial justice, one area we don’t talk enough about is the racialized reality of human trafficking. According to the Congressional Black Caucus, 57.5 percent of all juvenile detention prostitution arrests were of Black children, and 40 percent of sex trafficking victims identified as…

Ford hopes Nevada Legislature addresses human trafficking | Serving Carson City for over 150 years
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Ford hopes Nevada Legislature addresses human trafficking | Serving Carson City for over 150 years

Sex trafficking survivor Rebekah Charleston was scared she might never live to see her 21st birthday after her pimp sold her to the local brothels as punishment if she wasn’t working enough. “Honestly, I didn’t have hope for a future that didn’t revolve around my body being sold,” she recalled. “It’s a hard existence (for…

What Survivor-Centered Work Looks Like
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What Survivor-Centered Work Looks Like

Guest Blog by Survivor-Advocate Annika Huff Our stories are powerful. When I share my story, audience members often tell me that hearing someone’s real-life experience, in their own words, changes the way they connect to the issue. This is not unique to the work of reducing and preventing human trafficking and supporting survivors. Any successful…

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…

Turning Point creates unique human trafficking program – Macomb Daily
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Turning Point creates unique human trafficking program – Macomb Daily

Turning Point has been helping survivors of domestic violence for decades, including victims of human trafficking, who were compelled against their will by force, fraud and coercion into commercial sexual acts or into labor or service. Now, thanks to a $400,000 renewable grant from Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) Turning Point will have a Human…

Third Committee – Social, Humanitarian & Cultural Issues | UN Press
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Third Committee – Social, Humanitarian & Cultural Issues | UN Press

Note: A complete summary of today’s Third Committee meetings will be available on Tuesday, 4 October. Briefing DELPHINE SCHANTZ, of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), expressed her agency’s support for Member States in their fight against drugs, corruption, terrorism and organized crime, including crimes that affect the environment, and cybercrime.  Championing…

Kansas AG announces grants for Hays-based Options
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Kansas AG announces grants for Hays-based Options

TOPEKA — A Hays organization has been awarded nearly $77,000 in grants to provide services for victims of crime, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced last week. Options: Domestic and Sexual Violence Services Inc., was awarded grants to support the following programs in 18 area counties: $31,970 to provide survivor-centered services to those experiencing domestic…

“My story can change things” – Pieper Lewis, September 13th 2022
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“My story can change things” – Pieper Lewis, September 13th 2022

Joint statement regarding the sentencing of Piper Lewis prepared by the Iowa Network Against Human Trafficking and Slavery and Shared Hope International In sentencing child sex trafficking survivor, Pieper Lewis, on September 13, 2022, Judge David Porter stated, “Ms. Lewis, this is the second chance you asked for. You don’t get a third. Do you…

Hope for Justice North Carolina Regional Center (formerly Lily Pad Haven)
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Hope for Justice North Carolina Regional Center (formerly Lily Pad Haven)

Hope for Justice is a charity working to bring an end to modern slavery and human trafficking, and to protect the human rights of victims and survivors. They are active in the United Kingdom, United States, Cambodia, Norway, Australia, Ethiopia and Uganda. Their multi-disciplinary model is based on four pillars: preventing exploitation; rescuing victims; restoring lives;…