by Christy Salzman | Apr 26, 2022 | Legal Blog, Podcast
In the third episode of the second season of the Trafficking Matters Podcast, Douglass Fellows Natalie Assaad and Christy Salzman interview Professor Julie Dahlstrom, the Director of the Immigrants’ Rights and Human Trafficking Program at Boston University School of...
by John Freeman | Apr 5, 2022 | Learn about trafficking, Our Stories
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 family, having plenty of quality time with his teenage sons and especially his father, who was getting on in years. He knew...
by Kyleigh Feehs | Jun 8, 2021 | Federal Human Trafficking Reports, Our Stories, U.S. Updates
The 2020 Federal Human Trafficking Report is an annual publication of the Human Trafficking Institute that provides comprehensive data from every federal criminal and civil human trafficking case that United States courts handle each year. For the first time, the 2020...
by Shannon Gage | Apr 3, 2021 | In the News
In DAME Magazine’s recent article, How the Pandemic has Affected Survivors of Human Trafficking, the Institute’s Director of Victim Services, Marie Martinez Israelite, commented on the pervasiveness of labor trafficking within the U.S. The article describes how...
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...
