by Taylor King | Dec 10, 2019 | Articles, Legal Blog, Policy & Legislation
By: TAYLOR KING Who is responsible for atrocities like genocide? Who has jurisdiction to push back when human beings are stripped of their rights? Who wields the power to hold dictators accountable to a higher law? Until the formation of the United Nations, the answer...
by Taylor King | Nov 19, 2019 | Articles, Legal Blog, Policy & Legislation
By: TAYLOR KING Nineteen years ago today – November 19, 2000 – The International Labour Organization (ILO) Ratified the Worst Forms of Child Labor Convention in Geneva, Switzerland. The convention was a signal of international consensus; there should be an “immediate...
by Rebecca Jun | Oct 28, 2019 | Articles, Legal Blog, Policy & Legislation
By: REBECCA JUN What is the TVPA? Today, Americans are increasingly more conscious of human trafficking both inside and outside the United States. Hotline numbers appear on bathroom stalls and calls for awareness echo over airport intercoms. However, there was a time...
by Taylor King | Oct 23, 2019 | Articles, Legal Blog, Policy & Legislation
By: TAYLOR KING Ten years ago today – October 23, 2009 – Uganda authorized their Prevention of Trafficking in Persons Act (PTIP). This act prohibited all forms of human trafficking and prescribed punishments up to life in prison. Passage of this act was nearly 10...
by Taylor King | Sep 25, 2019 | Articles, Legal Blog, Policy & Legislation
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of...
