Bitcoin and other internet currencies are used throughout the world. It is a great way to make investments and is like stock investments but without the need of putting your hope in companies. It can be loaned out to others and builds up quickly. Websites such as Backpage use Bitcoin payments for services such as […]
In the news each week, there are dozens of arrest cases that state that runaways or other teens are lured into sex trafficking with false promises and threats. In a recent arrest of two women who were 20 and 24 years old, one who had a 6 week old baby with her, it was simply […]
A mother, Alecia Roberts, reflects on the memory of her beautiful daughter Heather, who’s life was cut short from drug addiction and the bail made by her daughter’s potential trafficker. Heather Coffman was susceptible to drug addiction due to the combination of having bipolar disorder, multiple personality disorder, and ADHD that she was diagnosed with […]
Women around the world are suffering to provide for their families. Out of desperation, they will sell their children in hopes that the child will not fall into poverty’s hands and to help their other children survive. Hagar International tried to express that desperation on the following video. While this mother seems to understand what […]
Brazil is a Tier 2 nation in the fight against human trafficking mainly due to their high child prostitution and forced labor within their country. There are an estimated 161,100 slaves living in Brazil, according to the Global Slavery Index. According to the 2016 Trafficking in Persons report, “The government did not report progress on […]
Where there are war torn areas and people scavenging for survival, there is a lack of hope and a huge vulnerability that traffickers use to their advantage. Many refugee people are forced into human trafficking. In Lebanon, there are 600,000 Syrian refugee children, causing 85% of children to work there on less than a dollar […]
Today in the US, people are celebrating freedoms they have of independence from British rule. Today in Kenya, there is a march for justice in solidarity for the murders of Willie Kimani, Josephat Mwenda and Joseph Muiruri. Willie Kimani was a Kenyan International Justice Mission lawyer who’s work was to defend oppressed people and find […]
The justice system, no matter how flawed it truly is or how good it may seem to be at times, is supposed to protect the innocent and victims through their various forms of abuse. Justice is what we seek, and when we see a failure of justice portrayed in the world, it causes us to […]
The Senate hasn’t held anyone in contempt of Congress in more than 20 years; that is until last week when the CEO of Backpage, Carl Ferror, refused to show up and explain how he works against fighting sex trafficking with the company. “The day of reckoning has come. We’re gonna issue the subpoena. We’re gonna […]
Over the past few months news has spread about the horrors of Thailand’s labor trafficking issues in regards to the fishing industry. It all started when Nestle’s Fancy Feast was suspected and proven to have shrimp that had unethical sources. Even more recently, it has been found that little fingers have been working on peeling […]
