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 [...]
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: Barry Rodriguez My mind was whirling. I simply couldn’t come to grips with what I was seeing. Beauty covering pain. Smiles covering indignity. How could these shy, giggling girls be the victims of one of history’s greatest injustices? ——- The other day I had the opportunity to interview a family in the Phnom Penh region; to sit in their home [...]
We believe that every girl deserves a life of love, opportunity, family, and a hopeful future. We believe that every girl deserves to dance in freedom. Through a peaceful home nestled in the hills of Honduras, weʼre providing holistic restoration for innocent and forgotten young girls who have been trafficked and sexually exploited. Education and skill training prepare the young girls [...]
In Romania, Not For Sale supports Mariana and her team of local abolitionists to repatriate trafficking survivors. We work with men, women and children who have been trafficked all around the world – from Romania to France, from Bangladesh to Romania, and from town to town within Romania. Since the beginning of 2011, Not For Sale [...]
By: Barry Rodriguez One of the most difficult aspects of sex trafficking is that it runs so deep into many other issues. Poverty, corruption, lack of education, hunger… All have ties to the terrible crisis of sexual slavery that is happening all over the world. There are a few fantastic organizations like the International Justice Mission that are dedicated to rescuing trafficked girls. [...]
Project Overview In Peru, our Not For Sale representative and local abolitionist, Lucy, operates a safe house for women living on the streets of Lima. Named after a victim of sex trafficking who was found strangled in a hotel room, Veronica’s House provides immediate and lasting care for survivors, providing food, health care, vocational training, and a transitional space to stability. [...]
By: Robin Socially conscious shopping is not just about clothes and food, but evaluating all the places we spend our money. Hotels are one of the many places that sex trafficking and labor trafficking takes place. Rooms may be purchased for commercial sex acts, including forced prostitution and sex with children. Hotels may sub contract housekeeping with labor agencies to [...]
By: Tara Teng S.Korea Part II Some people call them hookers…prostitutes…whores… or sex trade workers. I cringe every time I hear any of these terms to describe women in prostitution because no matter what term is used, it never brings justice or dignity to the individual being sold. Studies around the world consistently show that the overwhelming majority of women [...]
By: Tara Teng S.Korea Part 1 Remember the days when comic book heroes heard the silent cries of distressed damsels and rushed in to save the day with strength and bravery? Average citizens, women and children could live without fear because there was always a noble hero nearby to swoop in and save the day! In Seoul, South Korea, there [...]
