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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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