For 25 years, the State Department has had an office tracking the scope of human trafficking and working to combat it. In ...

As Republicans reel from the fallout surrounding accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, advocates working on human ...

Human trafficking for labor and sex is one of the most disturbing forms of human rights abuse, today. A child victim of human trafficking in the U.S. is defined as any child under the age of 18 eng… ...

Lise Getoor, Tomkins’ adviser, praised Tomkins for her intense and careful work integrating disparate data from different places. Her paper makes an important contribution to fighting human ...

The exact origin of the term "sex trafficking" is unclear, but according to Alison Bass, author of Getting Screwed: Sex Workers and the Law, it seems to have been developed by anti-prostitution ...

Numerous hotel franchises are named in a federal lawsuit from a former sex worker, alleging she once slept with 350 men during a 20-day stay in OKC.

Human trafficking persists due to a lack of strategic, long-term solutions and fragmented public policy, and to truly end it, we need to build prevention into public policy, train first responders ...

Human trafficking laws are in effect nationally and in all states, however, since 2017, executive orders have been enacted which override many tenets of this law dealing with immigrants, including ...

Ride-hailing apps Uber and Lyft are being scrutinized by senators of both parties over how they are fighting human trafficking, which lawmakers say may be happening on their services. Sen. Richard ...

Experts say the filing of human trafficking charges against John Geddert, who died on Thursday, could have major ramifications for future prosecutions of coaches in the high-pressure world of ...

The victim of human trafficking by a Detroit man said she was raped, beaten and branded while under control of her assailant, who was sentenced to nine to 20 years in prison.