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RENO, Nev. (KOLO) – President Biden proclaimed January Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Several local organizations are offering community trainings both online and in-person. Awaken is hosting a community presentation on January 24th aimed to educate and share volunteer opportunities in the fight to end sex trafficking. To learn more click here. The Nevada Coalition to…
Human trafficking is often thought of as an international crime. A new study by researchers from the University of Saskatchewan shows that human trafficking in Canada is mainly a domestic problem. The study shows Indigenous, women and girls in remote and rural areas are most likely to be victims of human trafficking, something also borne…
This post is co-written by Brittany Blevins, an MPH Student at the University of Southern California. The pervasiveness of human trafficking juxtaposed with its concealed nature can often make it difficult for victims to be identified in a clinical setting. There is no single manifestation of symptoms or diagnostic tools available to readily alert providers…
KNOX COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) – Across the mountains, many of us have heard of or taken part in church revivals lasting two or three days, but one Knox County church has been hosting one for 80 days now. “The Bible says ‘He can turn ashes into beauty’. You know, we can find an old piece…
Human trafficking is the movement of a person from one place to another, within a country or across borders, into conditions of exploitation against their will. It consists of three basic parts: An action – the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of a person A means – the threat or use of force or…
Human trafficking has disproportionately impacted marginalized communities, with more than 50 million people estimated to be in situations of modern slavery across the world. The problem is alarming, with almost 1 in every 150 people susceptible to being entrapped in forced labour in the post Covid-19 world, according to ILO’s Global Estimates of Modern Slavery…
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has, therefore, been signed between the International Justice Mission (IJM) and United Way, Ghana to create an effective community-based solutions to end human trafficking in the country. It is also to support the survivors whilst equipping them to fight against the menace A statement jointly signed by Madam Anita Budu,…
A sex worker gestures flirtatiously to passing men as she stands outside a dilapidated multi-storey building on Nugget Street in Johannesburg’s Hillbrow area. “It’s not like a hotel, [there are] no bookings. They just come, we do business and they leave,” she said while waiting to do “business”. It has been a slow day, she…
Read FERGUS M. BORDEWICH’s original post, from January 14th, 2006. JOHN BROWN believed that God himself had ordained him to bring an end to slavery. Achieving his goal hinged on a radical and deeply secret scheme: the establishment of an “Underground Pass-Way” that would extend the Underground Railroad more than a thousand miles southward through…
Blantyre District Social Welfare Office registered over 3000 cases of violence against children (VAC) in the just ended year. District Social Welfare Officer Stephano Joseph disclosed this on Friday during a capacity building workshop for district and sub district structures on child protection in Blantyre organised by Art and Global Health Centre Africa (ArtGlo). Joseph…
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