by Emma Ecker | Jun 16, 2022 | Federal Human Trafficking Reports, Our Stories, U.S. Updates
The 2021 Federal Human Trafficking Report was released today on our website. The Report, a project of HTI, is a continuation of HTI’s efforts to provide comprehensive data about every criminal human trafficking case filed in the federal courts each year. This...
by Emma Ecker | Oct 12, 2021 | Breaking News, Our Stories, Stories from the Field
On October 8, 2021, a Ugandan school administrator was found guilty on all charges of child trafficking and given a life sentence. This is the first case in Uganda in which a convicted defendant of child trafficking has been given a life sentence. The defendant had...
by Kelli Ross | Jan 25, 2021 | Douglass Fellows, In the News, Our Stories, U.S. Updates
The USC Gould School of Law News featured Mirelle Raza, USC Gould Class of 2021 and the law school’s first Douglass Fellow, in an online article published January 15, 2021. Four USC Gould students were named to prestigious fellowships, helping them advance their...
by Kelli Ross | Nov 20, 2020 | Belize, In the News, Our Stories, Stories from the Field
The U.S. Embassy in Belize announced the Institute as one of four recipients of the 2020 Central America Regional Security Initiative, Economic Support Fund (CARSI ESF) grant on October 27, 2020. Theses grants support good governance, using civil society engagement to...
by Johanna Lee | Nov 5, 2020 | #InContext
By: JOHANNA LEE “Pulling the branch of a tree” — this is the literal English translation of Nelson Mandela’s Xhosa birth name, Rolihlahla. While Mandela proclaimed he did not believe that names are destiny, Rolihlahla—colloquially translated to mean “troublemaker” —...