To End Human Trafficking

The prevention of suffering.

Mitzi Perdue MPA

The Missing Link in Combating Human Trafficking

Human trafficking is complex, chaotic, and challenging. Politicians are too often unaware of the tools academics can provide them with for addressing the problem.

Law Enforcement and Child Trafficking in the Philippines

Law enforcement is playing an increasingly important role in ending the Philippines status as a top destination for sex tourism.

The War in Ukraine: A Magnet for Human Traffickers

Ninety percent of the refugees from the war in Ukraine are women and children. Traffickers are targeting them.

A Vulnerability for People Who Combat Human Trafficking

Individuals whose work involves hearing stories of human trafficking or other trauma may experience debilitating symptoms of trauma themselves.

One Sex Worker's Story

When almost suicidal, a porn star got names, locations, and photographs of illegal activities. Her goal is to assist law enforcement in stopping the law breakers.

The Long Reach of an Oprah Show on Human Trafficking

A 2007 Oprah Winfrey show on child trafficking in Ghana inspired a viewer to initiate a program for action that is rescuing children today.

Trauma Bonding and Sex Trafficking

Hollywood may portray trafficking victims as shackled or bound. The bonds that attach a victim to her trafficker are most likely to be psychological.

Ukraine, Trafficking Survivors, and Cybersecurity

Trafficking survivors understand scenarios where people’s intentions are malign. Many are working right now to defend against cyberattacks stemming from sanctions warranted by the Ukraine invasion.

A Screening Tool for Identifying Human Trafficking

Social service providers have a new tool for screening homeless young adults to identify victims of labor and/or sex trafficking.

Preventing Trafficking by Alleviating Poverty

By giving the most vulnerable immediate financial opportunity, solar-powered lighting alleviates the poverty that leads to trafficking.

A New Effort to Stop Human Trafficking

One group is marshaling resources to eliminate human trafficking in one country as a way to discover what could work for the rest of the world.

Jeffrey Epstein’s Long Shadow

She tried to tell the world about Jeffrey Epstein and the people he ensnared in his sex trafficking ring. It took 13 years to get anyone to listen.

Breaking Free from Sex Trafficking

Helping individuals escape from being sex-trafficked is not easy or always successful.

The High Toll of Human Trafficking

The Global Fund to End Modern Slavery works to raise awareness, bring perpetrators to justice, support survivors, and develop sustainable solutions to replace exploitative systems.

Gender Inequality, the Real Driver of Sex Trafficking

Gender inequality enables sex trafficking; it’s the underlying misogyny and sexism of the “johns” who normalize the purchase of women’s bodies.

Behind the Glamour of Modeling

Modeling appears to be a glamorous industry, but it’s rife with sexual exploitation. A new organization is working to make it safer.

When There’s “No Room at the Inn"

After being rescued, sex-trafficked children need restorative care if they’re to avoid being re-trafficked.

Sex Trafficking: Humanizing the Data

A new report on human sex trafficking provides data that anyone can use to help prevent and stop the trade.

One Small Gesture, One Giant Act Against Human Trafficking

A clever hand signal is playing an important role in alerting people to trafficking situations while increasing public awareness of human trafficking.

Covid Raises the Risk of Sex Trafficking

Young people experiencing normal ups and downs may look for emotional support on the Internet, where predators have well-honed playbooks for reeling them in.

Protect Your Children from Traffickers

The internet is the preferred place for predators to groom children. Parents and guardians need to develop situational awareness skills to protect their children

Being Rich Is No Insurance Against Sex Trafficking

Vanda M looks back on what caused her to be trafficked, and the factors that restored her to a close-to-normal life.

Trafficking Survivors Need Money-Handling Skills

Thistle Farms teaches its survivor employees something that may be new for them: how to have a healthy and empowering relationship with money.

Kill the Human Trafficking Networks!

Modern game theory combined with network theory helps reveal ways to prosecute human traffickers for financial crimes and destroy trafficking networks.

Do You Know Where Your Everyday Items Come From?

Individuals and organizations can make everyday purchases that do not tolerate forced labor in the supply chain.

A Way to Spot, Report, and Prevent Sex Trafficking

Sex trafficking thrives in the U.S. A free online training program teaches ordinary people how to help stop it.

Cutting the Head off the Snake: The Push to Stop Money-Laundering

Anti money-laundering efforts are a powerful tool for stopping human trafficking.

Games Help with Healing

Play is a way to speed up the connection and trust that helps with healing.

Healing from Being Sex Trafficked

Sex trafficking survivors may have CPTSD. It’s everything bad about PTSD, only worse.

Pandemic Fallout Hits Sex-Traffic Survivors Especially Hard

COVID-19 hits the survivors of sex trafficking in particularly harsh ways. When businesses that hired them close, without work, being retrafficked is too often the outcome.

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