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… ...

Numerous hotel franchises are named in a federal lawsuit from a former sex worker, alleging she once slept with 350 men ...

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 ...

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

The Quad-Cities is not immune. The Network listed 16 suspected illicit massage businesses in Rock Island County and 14 in ...

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 ...

The U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act, passed in 2000, defines human trafficking as the use of force, fraud or coercion to obtain labor or commercial sex.The term can encompass forced ...

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 ...

On Sunday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: The United Nations commemorates its World Day Against Trafficking in Persons on July 30. The theme this year is "Leave No Child Behind in the Fight ...

Commenting on the data, Northeastern University Professor Amy Farrell told Newsweek, "Overall, we know human trafficking is under identified, under investigated and under prosecuted and some ...

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 ...