The United States, Mexico and the Philippines were ranked among the worst places for human trafficking in 2018. Human trafficking wasn’t illegal in the U.S. until 2000. The United States, Mexico and the Philippines were ranked among the worst places for human trafficking in 2018. More than 49,000 cases of human trafficking have been reported […]
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Truckers take on trafficking
It’s called TAT and, no, it is not an association of tattoo enthusiasts. TAT stands for Truckers Against Trafficking, an association of more than 700,000 truckers trained to spot the signs of human trafficking, then call the national human trafficking hotline. “We know that traffickers are going to exploit their victims anywhere they can to […]
Sexually exploited: victim or criminal?
If local police find a cache of girls from Thailand being forced to work as sex slaves in a Cleveland warehouse, they see sexually exploited victims of human trafficking in need of rescuing. If a cop drives through downtown Cleveland and sees an American girl in a short skirt approach a car, he sees a […]
Obama order prohibits human trafficking in federal contracts
What industry earns more money than major league baseball, and the national basketball, hockey and football leagues combined? Sex trafficking and forced labor. It’s a $32 billion industry. On Sept. 25, President Obama signed an executive order prohibiting human trafficking in all federal government contracting. The order applies to federal contractors and subcontractors working in […]
Many favorite brands flunk human rights test
Are you brand loyal? Do you stick to Carter’s, Apple and Cadbury? Do you ever wonder how they produce the products you love? If you’ve never stopped to think about it, you probably don’t know what a lousy job many of your favorite brands do monitoring the conditions of people who work for companies that […]
2nd act takes woman filmmaker to China
When the sinking economy stalled her freelance advertising business, May Tchao thought, “What the heck, I’ve done it all my life, so I want to try something new.” What Tchao did was begin filming the documentary “Rise of the Phoenix,” which casts the issue of women’s rights in China in the context of the country’s […]
