by Justice | May 11, 2019 | Featured, human trafficking statistics
As investigative journalist Amy Fine Collins notes, “It’s become more lucrative and much safer to sell malleable teens than drugs or guns. A pound of heroin or an AK-47 can be retailed once, but a young girl can be sold 10 to 15 times a day — and a ‘righteous’ pimp...
by Justice | Sep 6, 2018 | Featured, human trafficking prevention, human trafficking statistics
While some young people, like those who are homeless or transgender, are especially vulnerable, the truth is that victims do traverse across every type of neighborhood. They could be top of the class, the girl who lives across the street from you, or the head of the...
by Justice | Dec 30, 2016 | Featured, human trafficking statistics
As Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley, a national leader on human trafficking issues, told the media, “It just opens up the door for traffickers to use these kids to commit crimes and exploit them even worse.” Another prosecutor...
by Justice | Feb 1, 2016 | Featured, gendercide, human trafficking prevention
Not long after Paul Ryan and Co. gave Obama his full funding for Planned Parenthood—$216 million—a full scale lawsuit was filed against those who exposed their butchery and selling of baby parts. And wouldn’t you know it, in a stunning act of legal...
by Justice | Jan 16, 2016 | championing hope, Featured
A few years ago, my airline started training us on spotting telltale signs of human trafficking on the plane. Can the passenger speak for themselves, or is someone with them controlling what they say? Does the passenger avoid eye contact? Do they appear fearful,...
by Justice | Aug 14, 2015 | Featured, human trafficking prevention, human trafficking solutions, human trafficking statistics
The people of Shah Porir Dwip — fishermen, shopkeepers, police officers and shadowy bosses — were all drawn in, as participants or concerned observers, to a multimillion-dollar people smuggling business that sent roots deep into this impoverished corner of Bangladesh....