Texas Couldn’t Help This Sex-Trafficked Teen, So Authorities Sent Her To Jail
17-year-old Lena waits to be released from the Harris County Jail, with a small bag of her possessions. Her mentor gave her a blue jumpsuit to wear over her skimpy clothes. (Photo: Callie Richmond/The...
View ArticleReport: The Human Trafficking Of Domestic Workers In The United States
A 16-year-old worker harvests tobacco on a farm in Kentucky. (Photo: Marcus Beasdale/HumanRights Watch) Since Donald Trump assumed the presidency of the United States on January 20, 2017, we have...
View ArticleTrump’s Latest Appointee’s Sordid History Of Sexual Assaulting Young Men
Steven Munoz was accused of a multiple sexual assaults, with some incidents involving his grabbing other cadets’ privates. (Photo: LinkedIn) Washington, D.C. — Earlier this year, President Donald Trump...
View ArticleWatch: New Documentary Reveals Horrors Of Modern Day Slave Trade
A security guard talks to imprisoned slaves inside a cell at the compound of a fishing company in Benjina, Indonesia. In this two part series on the US/Philippines human trafficking epidemic, Abby...
View ArticleAmerica’s Dirty Little Secret: Sex Trafficking of Young Girls
Opinion — They’re called the Little Barbies. Children, young girls—some as young as 9 years old—are being bought and sold for sex in America. The average age for a young woman being sold for sex is now...
View ArticleSessions Proposes DNA Tests For Border Migrants to Prevent Human Trafficking
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been talking to members of Congress about using DNA testing to verify whether children crossing the southern U.S. border are biologically related to adults they...
View ArticleChild Sex Slavery Ring Run by Former Israeli Soldier Dismantled by Colombian...
MEDELLÍN, COLOMBIA — A large child sex slavery ring overseen by Israelis was dismantled by Colombian police earlier this week, in a story that has shocked Colombia and much of Latin America but...
View ArticleHuman Trafficking is Booming in Yemen as the War Enters its Fifth Year
AMRAN, YEMEN — The offensive war on Yemen, the most impoverished nation in the Middle East, was launched in 2015 by a U.S.-backed coalition of Arab countries led by Saudi Arabia, the richest nation in...
View ArticleRubio, Cruz Bill Would Deem Cuba’s Medical Missions “Human Trafficking...
In what has already become a parody of a shrinking empire’s habit of clutching at the vestiges of its Cold-War era mistakes, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and fellow war-hungry reactionaries in the...
View ArticleThe Finders: Harmless Cult or CIA-Linked Child Traffickers? A Discussion with...
It’s a story that has captivated many for over three decades. In 1987, locals in Tallahassee, Florida alerted police to a strange incident in a local park. Six dirty, hungry and poorly clothed kids —...
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