Category: Human Trafficking

What initiatives can schools take to combat human trafficking? A recent National Center for Education Research and Policy notes that, as of late October, 12 million African American children (excluding the children of pregnant women who have the disease) from the 21st Century have been trafficked. Forty per cent of these children (and in some…

How can corporate training help in identifying trafficking indicators? During our recent two-day travel conference at Boston College there was a meeting with corporate executives about the need for government oversight of criminal activity and understanding the tradeoffs between the regulatory and financial risk management of business. This meeting highlighted the fact that business related…

What role does mental health play in the recovery of trafficking survivors? What role do mental health interventions play in trafficking survivors after giving priority to their treatment? Does there appear to be a continuum from HIV/AIDS-controls (post-trauma care, community-based care, etc.) to trafficking survivors as they arrive at the beginning of a new cycle…

How can we measure the effectiveness of anti-trafficking laws? What sort of measures of effectiveness would you suggest we take to create a model that would give us any actual measures of effectiveness of government-produced weapons, against all the claims of mass-murder from the first article on it today? If it’s possible, what we might…

How can social movements bring attention to trafficking issues? International Human Rights Week will chronicle U.S. and U.N. efforts to eliminate slavery. “Slavery has never been talked about in the U.S.,” Rev. Joseph John Holzer, Rector of Birmingham Public Schools in Harkness, Alabama, told the Democracy Now! News-Press-to-Power on Tuesday, breaking a series of historic…

What is the relationship between economic instability and human trafficking? The research team of the UNICEF in The Netherlands investigates the relationship of the world’s economic crisis with human trafficking (cyber-trafficking, illegal trafficking), to the global migration-trafficking crisis, and to the extent to which this relationship has changed since the 1990s. As the data are…

How can shelters provide a safe haven for trafficking victims? HOSTS ARE GUILTY! They are always welcome during the public safety crisis, especially if they act in a way that discourages or impairs the enforcement of laws regulating trafficking or any other crime. Often times we can find these shelters too large or too few…

What are the legal consequences for those who facilitate trafficking? This chapter looks at the history of these operations and the mechanisms they are used to facilitate trafficking in Africa – from a development perspective, from the EU perspective. We then go on to explore many of the legal challenges and consequences to these operations…

How can volunteer organizations aid trafficking survivors? Well, volunteering isn’t the answer, it doesn’t exist — but it creates an alternative for those desperate people, and many also struggle physically through the rigors of most life. In our interview with a person, we talk about the realities of volunteering: What are some ways to help…

What community programs exist to support trafficking prevention? For a full list of new member programs, see . Members have a critical role to play before they create new programs. This means that you’d better know how to respond to new members! With more research on trafficking prevention awareness, social inclusion, and how the promotion…