by Annick Febrey | Feb 15, 2021 | Articles, Legal Blog, Policy & Legislation
We commemorated two notable anniversaries in our collective fight against human trafficking in 2020: The 20th anniversary of the U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act (the law that sets the U.S. federal response to human trafficking), and the 20th anniversary of the...
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 Brittany Davis | Jan 3, 2019 | Articles, Legal Blog, Policy & Legislation
By: BRITTANY DAVIS Early this summer, the Governor of New York signed a new law that strengthens the state’s efforts to punish sex traffickers and protect vulnerable children1 by making it a crime for those over the age of 21 to promote or benefit from the...
