When Egyptian feminist group Speak Up announced a partnership with Pornhub—the world’s largest website for adult content—to rapidly identify and remove non-consensual content, it received immediate backlash. Are its efforts meeting the reality of sextortion in the country, or normalizing a platform that has often hosted non-consensual and illegal content?
Camps for internally displaced persons in conflict-rift states in Nigeria have been known to provide fertile ground for trafficking.
The Department of Homeland Security is targeting workers it should be protecting, as recent ICE raids shine a spotlight on exploitative conditions at poultry farms.
The new transitional house offers holistic support for survivors trying to regain agency of their lives in a city where resources are still severely limited.
The United States incarcerates more women than any other nation. Why? The majority of have been detained for nonviolent crimes, including prostitution, deemed a public-order offense.
Nigerian authorities have rescued 10 children allegedly being trafficked to Russia in what is believed to be an attempt to use the approaching World Cup as cover for the illegal activity.
Anneke Lucas survived being trafficked for sex not once, but twice. “I was 9 years old when an elderly English-speaking man took me to the United States in his jet and sex-trafficked me in a luxurious hotel,” says Lucas, an anti-trafficking advocate and the founder of the nonprofit organization Liberation Prison Yoga.
Within the first few days after Sandra Moreno’s daughter, Ana Paula, disappeared in 2009, Moreno reached out to a TV crew a few blocks from her home in the lower-middle-class neighborhood of Carapicuíba, in the Brazilian state of São Paulo.
I’d been working on a short radio story for the July 30 UN World Day Against Trafficking in Persons when I realized that the fight against human trafficking in my country, Italy, has become a disaster.
When I met Sophie Otiende, she was running late. I had reached out to her in December 2014 while I was in Nairobi doing research for a film about sex trafficking. Sophie and her boyfriend, Jakob Christensen, are volunteers at the anti-trafficking nonprofit HAART Kenya and had agreed to meet me for dinner. But as time wore on, I was beginning to think I’d been stood up.
