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Recorded Webinar - Discussing Trauma-Informed Care for Human Trafficking Victims

Recorded Webinar - Discussing Trauma-Informed Care for Human Trafficking Victims

This webinar will present strategies to help healthcare professionals to identify and appropriately assist trafficked persons with victim-centered, trauma-informed care and services. Presenters will examine a 2017 survey report from the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST) that found that more than half of labor and sex trafficking survivors surveyed had accessed healthcare at least once while being trafficked. The recording will be available within 24 hours af

Former Las Vegas Escort Shares Her Story

Former Las Vegas Escort Shares Her Story

By: Charmaine Santos The recent news of NBA player Lamar Odom found unconscious at a Nevada brothel reminded Annie Lobert of the times she was a call girl in Vegas, often escorting athletes and celebrities. She was under the control of a pimp and recalls of a time when her pimp demanded her night’s earnings. Lobert came back to her house the next morning excited and awake after a long night of handsome earnings. Her friend who was with her that night commented to Lobert’s boy

Evidence of Relationship Between Mental Health and Human Trafficking

Evidence of Relationship Between Mental Health and Human Trafficking

By Luis Gay Research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London (IoPPN) found clinical evidence of the relationship between mental health effects and human trafficking. In a patient population from South London, the most common effects included post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression. 10% Off Any Order at Dermaflage. Use the coupon code: super10 The participants were in contact with secondary mental health services at the

Vietnamese Woman Escapes a 4 Year Forced Marriage

Vietnamese Woman Escapes a 4 Year Forced Marriage

By: Luis Gay Ly Thi Minh, a Vietnamese woman, has returned home after four years of forced marriage in rural China. In April of 2011, three young men invited her and her two sisters to a festival. Once they were all alone, Minh says that they were beaten, threatened and smuggled across the border into China. She explains that they were taken to a house seven hours away from the heavy surveillance border. The owner of the house, a man in his 50’s, ran a trafficking business se

Victims of Sex Trafficking Are Often Branded With Tattoos

Victims of Sex Trafficking Are Often Branded With Tattoos

By: Charmaine Santos Most pimps in America brand their victims with tattoos as a permanent reminder that they are property and that they will forever be tied together. However, these tattoos are permanent scars often reminding them of the physical and emotional abuse they have to endure. Police can now recognize certain tattoos that differentiate victims of the slave trade. Common ones that police regularly see are the pimp's initials or name with a crown above, dollar signs,

Unseen Chains

Unseen Chains

By: Janice Tjeng Edited by: Juliana Zhu, Esq. Unseen Chains is a film that tells the story of a young girl who is manipulated into a domestic minor sex trafficking ring. Domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST) is the commercial sexual exploitation of children through buying, selling, or trading their sexual services. Once a girl is coerced into the sex trade, she will most likely die within 7 years due to drug overdose, untreated STD, physical abuse, or she will be murdered whe

San Antonio Man Arrested For Offering ‘Sex Menu’ In College Prostitution Ring

San Antonio Man Arrested For Offering ‘Sex Menu’ In College Prostitution Ring

By: Charmaine Santos Edited by: Juliana Zhu,Esq. San Antonio police arrested 38-year-old Steven Charles Sumlin, who is also known as Anthony Lamar, on suspicion of aggravated promotion of prostitution. Sumlin is accused of being the head of a college prostitution ring called “School Girls by Jazleen.” The website offered a menu of “services” to customers by offering descriptions of the women, their measurements, and what they could do for the paying customer. According to San

Companies Adopt "Freedom Seal" to Show Support Against Human Trafficking

Companies Adopt "Freedom Seal" to Show Support Against Human Trafficking

By: Janice Tjeng Edited by: Juliana Zhu, Esq. Image: Trong Hong (left) and his wife, Rani Hong (right), are the founders of The Tronie Foundation For Rani and Trong’s stories, click to watch the video. The Tronie Foundation is a Global UN Accredited Organization to End Slavery and Human Trafficking. It is founded by two former victims who are working to raise global awareness about modern day slavery. Since 2006, the organization has been speaking up for victims of human traf

India’s Textile Mills Deceive Young Women Employees Looking For Dowries

India’s Textile Mills Deceive Young Women Employees Looking For Dowries

By: Charmaine Santos Edited by: Juliana Zhu, Esq. The clothing and textile industry is one of the largest and most important in India’s economy. Human traffickers, or sometimes known as “agents,” have visited the poor and rural parts of Tamil Nadu in Southern India in order to find girls and young women to work in the cotton spinning mills, promising them a better life and large payments to cover the costs of their dowries. Prospective women are offered clean and safe working

Asia’s Brutal Treatment of Domestic Workers

Asia’s Brutal Treatment of Domestic Workers

By: Janice Tjeng Edited by: Juliana Zhu, Esq. Image: Susi, a 30 year-old Indonesian domestic worker. Susi experienced domestic abuse for a year under the hands of a Hong Kong employer, Law Wan-Tung. She had to work 20 hours per day and Law frequently slapped her to force her to sign a paper indicating that her wages had been paid when in fact, they weren’t. She was also prohibited from contacting her family members and Law even threatened to kill them if she ever talked back

State Department Trafficking Report Blames China's "Previous" One Child Policy

State Department Trafficking Report Blames China's "Previous" One Child Policy

By: Reggie Littlejohn, JD Last week, the United States Department of State issued its annual Trafficking in Persons (“TIP”) report, ranking China on the Tier 2 Watch List because it is a “source, destination and transit country” for trafficked persons, and because the Chinese government, “does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking . . .” On one hand, the TIP report heavily implicates China’s One Child Policy in connection with China’s

Young Nepalese Women Affected By Earthquake Are Targeted For Trafficking

Young Nepalese Women Affected By Earthquake Are Targeted For Trafficking

By: Charmaine Santos Edited by: Juliana Zhu, Esq. Police in India arrested two airline staff and two suspected traffickers at Delhi’s main airport for having sent hundreds of young women from earthquake-hit areas of Nepal to do manual labor or sex work in the Gulf. Police took a total of 21 women into their care: 7 from the airport, who were getting ready to get onto a flight to Dubai, and 14 from a hotel nearby. According to Mohammed Ishfaq Haider, deputy police commissioner

China's One Child Policy Drives Sexual Slavery -- World Day Against Trafficking in Persons

China's One Child Policy Drives Sexual Slavery -- World Day Against Trafficking in Persons

By: Reggie Littlejohn, JD One year ago today, the United Nations established the annual World Day against Trafficking in Persons. In an official statement to commemorate this occasion, UN Women wrote: “To prevent trafficking, we must address its root causes and the factors that increase individual’s vulnerability to trafficking, including poverty, unemployment, poor access to education and continued gender inequality.” Reggie Littlejohn, President of Women’s Rights Without Fr

Fisheries and Farms Dominate Human Trafficking Cases

Fisheries and Farms Dominate Human Trafficking Cases

By: Luis Gay Edited by: Juliana Zhu, Esq. In the 2015 human trafficking report recently released by the U.S. State Department, global supply chains of agriculture, aquaculture, and fishing took center stage as the main hotspots for slavery. Food industries have been noted for abuse and promising efforts to fight this problem. Sex and domestic work dominated these annual reports when the State department first started them in 2001, however Mai Shiozaki, a spokesperson from the

Shining the Light of Advocacy, Training and Personalized Guidance for Survivors

Shining the Light of Advocacy, Training and Personalized Guidance for Survivors

By: Janice Tjeng Edited by: Juliana Zhu, Esq. Elisabeth is a survivor of family-controlled child sex trafficking and abuse, which began when she was 2. After years of familial sexual abuse, her father sold her to pimps to earn more money. She eventually left home at 18. The birth of her twins motivated her to seek help and she spent the last 6 years recovering from childhood trauma and earned her master’s degree in social work (MSW). Currently, Elisabeth writes about her reco

Human Trafficking in Bangladesh: How it Happens and Efforts to Prevent it

Human Trafficking in Bangladesh: How it Happens and Efforts to Prevent it

By: Luis Gay Edited by: Juliana Zhu, Esq. Nazrul Islam is the Bangladesh Country Director for Relief International (RI), a U.S.-based international non-government organization that provides development services to more than 20 countries. Under his leadership, RI is aiding in combating human trafficking and promoting safe migration through the Protecting Victims of Human Trafficking in Bangladesh project. In an interview with Sakina Huq from Law Desk, Islam answers questions a

UNICEF Takes Action To Halt Child Trafficking in Nepal

UNICEF Takes Action To Halt Child Trafficking in Nepal

By: Sara Kim UNICEF, a children’s rights and emergency relief organization, recently expressed their fear of an increased rate of child trafficking in Nepal. Although trafficking has occurred in Nepal in the past, following the recent earthquake and aftershook, victim numbers have spiked within the past few months. Due to the natural disaster, which resulted in the death of thousands and the injury of many more, many villages have been destroyed, resulting in a loss of jobs

Australian Police: A Case of Bribery and Human Smuggling

Australian Police: A Case of Bribery and Human Smuggling

By: Luis Gay Claims have surfaced that Australian officials have been paying human smugglers for years as an approach to deal with migrants. Last month, reports accused Australian police of paying £19,000 to smugglers to turn their boat of 65 migrants back to Indonesia. The passengers on board, which also included women and children, were from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Burma. General Endang Sunjaya, an Indonesian police chief who investigated this incident, said that six cre

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