Freedom Week

04/26/2025

This is the definition of human trafficking.
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08/16/2022

More than 200 state, local, and federal partners and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children conducted 391 operations over a two-week period in August.

12/11/2021

Two dozen people were indicted in Georgia last month on charges of smuggling Mexican and Central American immigrants to the United States and forcing them to

06/09/2021

Forced labor, human trafficking, and worse shouldn’t be a part of our food supply. Here’s how we stop it.

06/06/2021

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Activists and community groups say Kizer's case represents the failures of the criminal justice system to protect young victims of s*xual abuse.

03/17/2021

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Decades before going into government, Julie Su took on one of the most horrific cases of labor exploitation and human rights violations.

05/18/2020

At long last. 🙌

Sign up for our COVID-19 newsletter to stay up-to-date on the latest coronavirus news throughout New York City Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced the creation of a Human Trafficking Bureau that is exclusively dedicated to combating s*x and labor trafficking by aggressively prosecuting t...

05/07/2020

This was already beginning to happen back in 2008; not just with Mexican cartels but other organized crime and terrorist groups around the world, notably the Boko Haram.

“A lot of criminal groups are mutating,” says Santigo Nieto, head of Mexico’s financial intelligence unit. S*x trafficking may the country's third-largest criminal activity.

02/01/2020

“I was 28 years old. I was educated. I already had my daughter. I was already married to an NFL player. I just trusted the wrong person and became a victim," Anderson said. "You just can’t say it won’t happen to you. Human trafficking is real. It can happen to a woman who trusts the wrong woman.”

Before Super Bowl LIV fans impacted Florida, the state already ranked third in the nation, only behind California and Texas, for having the most reported cases of human trafficking, according to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center.

01/29/2020

Key to understanding and treating trafficking survivors.

Ever had a victim-blamer claim you were “codependent?” That you in some way deserved the abuse, or that it was your fault? Let them know: Codependency wa...

01/29/2020

BIG HORN COUNTY, Mont. -- Jackie Big Hair slept in her car again, waking every few hours to fire up the engine and gaze at the frozen highway rest stop where her 16-year-old daughter had been reported missing."I just have to be here," Big Hair, 50, said, watching semis lumber across the pl...