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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: 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

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

By: Janice Tjeng Edited by: Sharon Chin, MPH Zainab Bangura, U.N.’s special representative on sexual violence in conflict, recently conducted a tour of refugee camps in Syria and Iraq, war-ravaged countries where the Islamic State (ISIS) hold its territories. From there, she heard many horrifying stories of victims under ISIS’ control. Bangura mentions, “The brutalization of women and girls is central to their ideology.” Virgins were captured by jihadists and sold at auctions

By: E. Diane Champe, Founder/President of the E Diane Champe Institute Managing Assistant: Tram Pham Child abuse (physical, mental, emotional, and/or sexual) and neglect encompasses lifelong consequences for men and women (survivors). Survivors don’t realize until much later in life that the methods they developed and used to cope as children were carried forward into their adult lives. When children are abused, they begin to question themselves and their world because it des

By: Janice Tjeng Edited by: Sharon Chin, MPH {Comment in image is by the original author: Kate Thomas} World Vision Australia is a Christian relief, development and advocacy organization that helps children, families, and communities overcome poverty and injustice. Kate Thomas, a World Vision Youth Ambassador, recently visited a youth club in the Yen Bai Province of Northern Vietnam. It is common for families and children of the Yen Bai Province to migrate to the Chinese bord

Description: For health-care providers, trafficking in persons is best understood as a serious health risk because as with other forms of violence, it is associated with physical and psychological harm. Health providers may come into contact with victims of trafficking at different stages of the trafficking process and at different stages of their recovery. The informed and attentive health-care provider can play an important role in assisting and treating individuals who may

By Barbara Moynihan, Ph.D., A.P.R.N., B.C., A.F.N., F.A.A.N., and Katherine Olive M.H.S.A., B.S.N., R.N. Cancer InCytes Magazine - Volume 3, Issue 2, Winter 2014 Managing Editor: Matt Kaku, M.S. Summary This article will focus on the development of cancer as a potential consequence of human trafficking. Various subtle sequelae of trafficking, such as the insidious development of cancer, may not be seen until well after the victim has been freed. There are a myriad of factors

By: Charmaine Santos This year’s San Francisco Black Film Festival will be playing a 25-minute movie called “Moses,” a story young African males who are sold into sex trafficking. In the movie, the main character, Moses, is a young Nigerian man who plays soccer better than most soccer in Nigeria. A white “sports agent” contacts him and convinces Moses’ father to let Moses travel to America to become a soccer star. Upon his arrival, Moses is taken to a party full of white men