Planning on being in the Washington, D.C. area on October 23, 2010? If so, please consider joining the Polaris Project Walk Team for the 2010 DC Stop Modern Slavery Walk on the National Mall! Click here to register now. Read our blog watch our videos about the walk. Read full original post.
She runs to me and holds up thin brown arms. In the universal language of children, she is asking me to pick her up. She knows our car is leaving for the day, and she wants to be held as I walk towards it. A hundred yards, maybe. And so I heft her up in [...]
When you find yourself riding a bicycle across the U.S. to raise money and awareness for anti-human trafficking efforts, as one often does, there are a number of ways to occupy the long periods of time you spend pedaling. Sometimes you ask yourself exactly why you are doing such a thing. Sometimes you count animal [...]
I was on Rosie Radio with Rosie O’Donnell, and not only did I have a great time, but wow – Rosie’s listeners really came through and supported Made By Survivors! After the show we have our best sales ever, we had 12 new children sponsored for school, scores of party sign ups and a huge [...]
Billionaire pedophile Jeffery Epstein completed his one-year house arrest Wednesday after being convicted of crimes relating to the molestation of multiple underage girls. He skirted a mandatory 20-year sentence under federal and Florida state trafficking laws even after evidence of crimes involving the exploitation of girls as young as 12 years old. Please click here [...]
An eight-year-old policy forbidding government contractors and employees from engaging in sex trafficking in war zones has proven almost impossible to enforce, despite indications that such activities are occurring in Iraq and Afghanistan. Please click here to read the full article. Read full original post.
A Springfield, Ill. man was indicted on a federal prostitution charge this week for allegedly prostituting an underage runaway online. Please click here to read the full article. Read full original post.
The government has issued all 10,000 visas available this year for immigrant crime victims who help authorities investigate and prosecute perpetrators. The visas were created as part of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000. They are given to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking and other crimes in exchange [...]
A 33-year-old man is facing a federal sex-crimes charge in connection with the forced prostitution of a 16-year-old San Diego girl, whom authorities say he threatened to kill if she tried to leave him. Please click here to read the full article. Read full original post.
Senate Bill 1279 in California will provide protections for children who are victims of sex trafficking. Please click here to read the full article. Read full original post.
More committed implementation of victim protection mechanisms will strengthen the fight against the trafficking in human beings, the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, told the U.S. Helsinki Commission. Please click here to read the full article. Read full original post.
Two suspects are being held in Seattle for forcing a 17-year-old girl to prostitute herself. Please click here to read the full article. Read full original post.
From across Asia, about 190,000 migrant trainees toil in Japanese factories and farms. Allegations of labor abuses against these workers are widespread. 127 trainees have died in the program. [Click here to watch the video] Read full original post.
NPR investigates trafficking in New England in a four-part series. In this segment, Polaris Project Executive Director Bradley Myles weighs in on the issue of sex trafficking in the United States. Catch the final installment of the four-part series today on NPR or online. Please click here to read the full article. Read full original [...]
