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By Sharon E. Chin In January 2014, the Obama Administration released a Federal Strategic Action Plan in response to the President’s address of human trafficking at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2012. While there has been a large effort legally to protect victims and prosecute traffickers via the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), there has … Read more
By: Arun Kumar Acharya, Ph.D. Human trafficking is one of the fastest growing criminal industries. Since the United Nation’s Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons was signed into law in 2001 and the Trafficking Victims Protection Act was passed in 2000, much research has been conducted around the world. According to the U.S. … Read more
By Cathy Miller, R.N., Ph.D.c. Incomprehensible stories of child sex trafficking (CST) proliferate in media headlines. Public awareness has steadily risen over the past decade, prompting calls for action against perpetrators who sexually victimize children and adolescents for financial gain. CST has been recognized as a new pandemic as well as a public health and economic … Read more
By David H. Nguyen, Ph.D. From the Huffington Post (1): “Police in Mexico’s western state of Michoacan detained an alleged member of the Knights Templar cartel who is suspected of kidnapping children to harvest their organs, an official … Read more
By Candice Hong A rescuer of sex slaves discusses the difficulties of his work, but endorses the positive impact it has on a society. “This initial process can take anywhere from one week to a year or more, depending on the scope of the operation. A quality target package represents hundreds of dollars and many … Read more