By: Jocelyn Post [Jocelyn is an intern with the Center for Global Impact—World Next Door’s partner organization in Cambodia. In addition to writing and taking pictures for CGI’s blogs, newsletters and promotional materials, Jocelyn is a freelance photojournalist for WND.] The Center for Global Impact’s (CGI) mission is to “engage and empower the poor”. Although I’m constantly reminded of this whenever I submit [...]
By: Joanna Hanson Nearly 4 Million miles of road cover the United States of America and the injustices seen from its ditches and sidelines are not few. Human beings are bought or stolen and forced into lives of prostitution and drugs becoming the trafficked of our highways. Truckers Against Trafficking is a non-profit organization, better known as TAT, created [...]
An investigative journalism project to report on human trafficking in Nepal in real time in the form of a webcomic and graphic novel. I’m a comics journalist, educator and animator originally from the UK and I am passionate about using comics and visual media to report on human rights issues with a focus on women and children. Not only does [...]
Empowering Women Through Product Design and Development By: Erin Danae Fowler Who would have thought that such a young girl would be the inspiration for such a big dream. No eight-year-old should have to go through what Nomi did. Nomi was one of many children caught in human trafficking: an estimated 32 billion dollar industry that is considered to be the third [...]
By. Joanna Hanson Sport Against Trafficking is an initiative of The A21 Campaign. There are an estimated 27 million people trapped in slavery today, and so Sport Against Trafficking was born out of us having to do something! The injustice of human trafficking is overwhelming, but the great thing about sport is that it is a positive way to unite, [...]
The issue: Each year, an estimated 200,000 American youth, primarily girls, are at high risk to falling prey to a form of human trafficking called sex trafficking. This is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world. The fact is, traffickers, known as pimps, have declared war on the American youth. For pimps, teens are not human beings but property; [...]
By: Pablo Jimenez At times we don’t understand how our actions can affect our future, or how our life can change when we choose to follow our dreams. After meeting a 17 year old boy (at the border of Nicaragua and Costa Rica) that had been in prostitution since the age of 12, I had the burden and dream of [...]
By: Ryan Chamberlain If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em…then beat ‘em. That’s one way of defining the strategy of Greenlight Apparel: Join a traditionally wicked business specifically to effect change from within. The global garment industry has been fraught with ethical production problems for a long time: from the mass pollution of dyes, bleach, and solvents, to sweatshops, [...]
[Four Days to End Sex Slavery is a series of four actions that support new campaigns focused on ending sex slavery around the globe. Through the donation of a few dollars, a few minutes of your time, or a few shares on your own social media, we steadily move towards an end to the trade in humans and forced prostitution. [...]
[Four Days to End Sex Slavery is a series of four actions that support new campaigns focused on ending sex slavery around the globe. Through the donation of a few dollars, a few minutes of your time, or a few shares on your own social media, we steadily move towards an end to the trade in humans and forced prostitution. [...]
