Rafael* was mostly excited to be on the plane headed back to the United States from the Dominican Republic. He had spent the off-season with his...
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Celebrating Women Fighting Trafficking for International Women’s Day 2022
This International Women’s Day, our team wanted to take time to celebrate a few of the women who lead the anti-human trafficking movement. Our staff...
Knowing what to look for: global vulnerabilities to human trafficking
No anti-trafficking response is complete if it does not take into account the many reasons someone may be vulnerable to human trafficking. We know...
Breaking Down Global Estimates of Human Trafficking: Human Trafficking Awareness Month 2022
There are many estimates of trafficking prevalence cited by various sources, so it can be difficult to know what trafficking looks like around the...
#InContext: Pope Francis
By: CHRISTY SALZMAN “Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.” – Pope...
#InContext: Yaa Gyasi
By: MAURA REINBRECHT “[W]hen you study history, you must ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could...
#InContext: Nelson Mandela
By: JOHANNA LEE “Pulling the branch of a tree” — this is the literal English translation of Nelson Mandela’s Xhosa birth name, Rolihlahla. While...
#InContext: Gary Haugen
By: ALICEN RODOLPH Reflecting on history, what is most perplexing and indefensible are “the simple failures of compassion.” In these failures, we...
#InContext: Frederick Douglass
By: MIRELLE RAZA On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer who knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes. Floyd’s...
#InContext: Madeleine Albright
By: SAMANTHA FRANKS By the time Madeleine Albright was a teenager, she had escaped fascism twice. When she was almost two years old, her family fled...
#InContext: John Lewis
By: KELLI L. ROSS 2020 has been marked with a renewed racial reckoning in the United States. It has also been a year in which leaders of the Civil...
#InContext: Alice Paul
By: REBECCA JUN Women have cast ballots and contributed to the greater American vision as voters for a century. On August 25, 1920, the 19th...
