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A Conversation Between a Human Trafficking Survivor and Her Lawyer
Taushia Chacon is an empowered woman and devoted mother. She is also a sex trafficking survivor. In August 2020, her trafficker was sentenced to...
What If Your Purchases Could Empower The Vulnerable This Holiday Season?
By: REBECCA JUN During this holiday season, every purchase will have a rippling effect. While bringing happiness to the gift receiver, purchases...
Truckers Against Trafficking and the Responsible Business Alliance Honored with Award for Extraordinary Efforts to Combat TIP
By: REBECCA JUN On October 29, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo presented the 2019 Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts to Combat...
What Went Wrong with the Prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein: A Reflection of Best Practices for Practitioners
By: ANITA ALVAREZ and JENNIFER GREENE When the United Nations passed the Palermo Protocols in 2000, combatting trafficking in persons became a...
Top 40 Tech Tools to Combat Child Trafficking
By: NICOLE SMITH The Center for Mind and Culture (CMAC) recently released “Counter-Trafficking Top 40: Tools Against Child Trafficking,” a white...
Toward a More Just System: Trauma-Informed Approaches for Criminal Justice Professionals – Part Two
By: MARIE MARTINEZ ISRAELITE and SULEMAN MASOOD Information’s Role in Empowering Victims At the beginning of a victim’s relationship with law...
Toward a More Just System: Trauma-Informed Approaches for Criminal Justice Professionals – Part One
By: MARIE MARTINEZ ISRAELITE and SULEMAN MASOOD Survivors of human trafficking experience devastating long-term effects from trauma related to their...
The Market Project: Helping Others Find Their Place
By: DOROTHY TAFT Every woman’s journey into and out of being trafficked is unique. Vulnerabilities vary. The impact of trauma varies. However, one...
The Cognitive Interview: A Primer for Anti-Trafficking Professionals
Edited by: CASSONDRA (Cj) MURPHY and ALYSSA CURRIER A hallmark of human trafficking cases is the complex, long-term trauma victims experience during...
Human Trafficking Legal Center Publishes 2018 Restitution Report
By: CASSONDRA (Cj) MURPHY In September 2018, the Human Trafficking Legal Center published its report, United States Federal Courts’ Continuing...
Labor Trafficking in the United States Part Two: A Survivor’s Perspective
By: ELIZABETH RANADE JANIS For Harold D’Souza and his family, the complexity of finding and navigating assistance in the criminal justice and social...