Post Tagged 'Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking'

July 23, 2015

Helping Human Trafficking Victims Find A Way To Home And Healing

One of the challenges that survivors of human trafficking face is that they often are unable to prove their identity. Traffickers take away driver’s licenses, visas, passports, even student I.D.s in order to control their victims. Continue Reading...

March 23, 2015

Human Trafficking Victims Lose Out To Partisanship

A bill designed to aid victims of human trafficking in the U.S. should not be divisive. It should not be stalled in the House of Representatives. It should be enacted swiftly, so as to get help to as many victims as possible, as quickly as possible. Continue Reading...

February 19, 2015

Stopping Human Trafficking Before It Starts

Human trafficking is increasingly gaining public awareness. Law enforcement, social workers, first responders – all are beginning to receive training regarding human trafficking. And that’s all very good. But it’s hardly enough. Continue Reading...

December 01, 2014

Explainer: Human Trafficking and Global Efforts to Abolish Slavery

Tomorrow is the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, a commemoration of the date of the adoption, by the General Assembly, of the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others (resolution 317(IV) of 2 December 1949). Continue Reading...

March 18, 2014

Catholics and Anglicans Join Forces Against Slavery

There are more slaves today than were seized from Africa in four centuries of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. In fact, there are more slaves in the world today than at any other point in human history, with an estimated 21 million in bondage across the globe. Continue Reading...