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Browsing Archive: April, 2010

Today Buy a Slave for $90, Kevin Bales on CNN

Posted by FTC on Monday, April 26, 2010, In : International Trafficking

Editor's note: Kevin Bales, a co-founder of Free the Slaves, the American sister organization of the UK's Anti-Slavery International, the world's oldest human rights group, spoke about slavery at the TED2010 conference in February. Bales is the author of "Ending Slavery" and, with Ron Soodalter, "The Slave Next Door: Modern Slavery in the United States." TED, a nonprofit organization devoted to "Ideas Worth Spreading," hosts talks on many subjects and makes them available through its...

A Model for Fighting against Sexually Oriented Businesses

Posted by FTC on Saturday, April 17, 2010, In : Domestic Trafficking

Standing for truth

http://www.citizenlink.org/citizenMag/coverstories/A000012284.cfm

by Daniel Weiss

Several years ago, the Louisville region housed 175 sexually oriented businesses. thanks to a coalition of concerned citizens — and a billboard campaign — that number has dropped by more than 100.

Editor's note: Some of the content in this story may be disturbing to some readers.

By the early 2000s, the picturesque river town of Louisville, Ky., was fast becoming a regional hub for c...

Anti-human trafficking Ministry reaching out to Truckers

Posted by FTC on Wednesday, April 7, 2010, In : Domestic Trafficking

Transport For Christ - Upcoming Webinars!

http://www.askthetrucker.com/human-trafficking-webinars-set-for-april/

PRESS RELEASE

March 18, 2010

For Immediate Release

Educational Webinars Cover Human Trafficking for Trucking and Travel Plaza Industry Members.

Human trafficking is a $32-billion-a-year business, destroying countless lives and enslaving its victims, the majority of whom are women and children. Most Americans are aware of the problem in Asia and Africa, but are obliviou...

Flight Attendants Are First Line of Defense Against Human Trafficking

Posted by FTC on Tuesday, April 6, 2010, In : International Trafficking

Voice of America article: Flight Attendants

Elizabeth Lee

05 April 2010

Flight attendants at a large U.S. airline are training other flight attendants to recognize signs of human trafficking on international and domestic flights. The flight attendant leading the program says it's possible to catch traffickers in the act, saving the lives of women and children trapped in the net.

For a moment in time, strangers from around the world come together as travelers.

It's also a moment when ...

Texas Monthly, The Lost Girls

Posted by FTC on Friday, April 2, 2010, In : Houston sex trafficking

The Lost Girls

For the thousands of women who have been trafficked into Houston and forced to work as prostitutes in the city’s underground sex trade, escaping from captivity may be the easiest part of the nearly impossible road to recovery.

by Mimi Swartz

Left: A bathhouse listed on a Web site of erotic massage parlors in Houston. Right: Women at a spa hide their faces during a February 19 inspection by the Harris County precinct 4 constable’s office.
Photographs by Van Ditthavong

T...

Human Trafficking and Graduate School

Posted by FTC on Friday, April 2, 2010,

Finding Graduate Programs to do Human Trafficking Research

I spent this fall applying to return to graduate school to obtain my Masters and conduct research on human trafficking. New research will be necessary for improving our understanding and ability to combat trafficking.

Some great research has been done already. Last October, I attended the First Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. The call for papers for the Seco...
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