by Sarah Murray | Aug 27, 2021 | Articles, Legal Blog, Policy & Legislation
Introduction Over the past four years, the People’s Republic of China has forced at least one million Uyghurs,[1] who are mostly Muslim, and members of other ethnic and religious minorities into internment camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (“Xinjiang”), a...
by Hannah Savaso | Apr 15, 2021 | Advocacy, Articles, Legal Blog
Human trafficking is a complex issue. It should come as no surprise that representing survivors in our current legal system presents many unique challenges. By using a trauma-informed approach, lawyers can overcome these challenges and ensure that a survivor’s needs...
by Scotland Grace Pierce | Apr 12, 2021 | Articles, Legal Blog, Policy & Legislation
Defined as “the coercive exploitation of another person for commercial gain,”1 human trafficking is a global crime that impacts the most vulnerable populations in the United States and around the world.2 Children are among those uniquely vulnerable to traffickers—at...
by Annick Febrey | Mar 22, 2021 | Articles, Legal Blog, Policy & Legislation
The final episode of CNN’s 6-episode series, “Lincoln: Divided We Stand” aired on Sunday. As a labor rights advocate for over fifteen years, what struck me in the first few episodes was how Lincoln claimed to be against slavery for moral reasons, but for a majority of...
by Annick Febrey | Feb 15, 2021 | Articles, Legal Blog, Policy & Legislation
We commemorated two notable anniversaries in our collective fight against human trafficking in 2020: The 20th anniversary of the U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act (the law that sets the U.S. federal response to human trafficking), and the 20th anniversary of the...
by Sarah Byrne | Sep 2, 2020 | Advocacy, Articles, Legal Blog
Taushia Chacon is an empowered woman and devoted mother. She is also a sex trafficking survivor. In August 2020, her trafficker was sentenced to life in prison and ordered to pay almost $2 million in restitution and fines after being convicted on 13 counts of human...
