Human Trafficking Tool for Youth and at Risk
Attention Social Workers, Schools, and anybody who works around children and youth! Here’s a tool and brief rundown of great info so you can understand and approach young people when…
Facebook Can’t Dodge Sex-Trafficking Case in Texas
Human traffickers use social media to lure, recruit, threaten, extort, betray, advertise, and commodify victims of human trafficking. Courts, like in this case with Facebook, are finding businesses who profit…
STAC’s Future Growth and Commitment to Greater Public Awareness of Human Trafficking
Written by: Chelsea Ziegmont The Survive and Thrive Advocacy Center (STAC) works to coordinate various services for human trafficking victims, tailored to the individual needs of the victim. Victims may…
Supporting Human Trafficking Survivors: 2021 Florida Human Trafficking Legislation
The 2021 Florida Legislature passed a bill that reforms Florida human trafficking law by: creating a “human trafficking victim advocate – victim privilege,” broadening of the definition of human trafficking,…
Volusia County Council passes human trafficking awareness ordinance
Thank you to Volusia County for adopting this ordinance to enforce human trafficking hotline awareness info by posting the National Human Trafficking Hotline https://humantraffickinghotline.org/ info in English and Spanish so people can…
Hindu Sect Is Accused of Using Forced Labor to Build N.J. Temple
Human trafficking is a ‘crime of crimes’ where the traffickers often commit many illegal acts. Here, skilled artisans allege victimization in what “… could be the first forced-labor case of…
I Work at a Bank or Money Wire Service: What Can I Do to Combat Human Trafficking?
EVERYONE has a role in ending human trafficking – here’s how people working at banks and wire services can act. You can do something too: Ask if your financial institution…
Housing and Economic Mobility Virtual Resource Fair
HHS’ Office on Trafficking in Persons and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office for Victims of Crime will hold a virtual resource fair on Housing and Economic Mobility on May…
Wave of Sex Trafficking Lawsuits Implicates Hospitality Industry
Federal law and many states’ anti-trafficking laws create liability for businesses who “knew or should have known” that human trafficking was happening on their premises. Civil laws can protect and…
You can educate, empower and connect to help stop human trafficking
United Partners for Human Services re-ran its Tale of Two Tally’s article in March highlighting the inequities that exist in preventing all of our neighbors from achieving economic mobility and the impacts…