Public awareness campaigns around the World Cup and other sporting events are well intentioned – but not backed by research.

Was Santa Barbara their home, and if so, were they in need of immediate shelter? Were they perhaps stranded here, seeking emergency funds to get back home? The female panhandler, whose accent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Signs of trafficking Signs that a person may be a victim of human trafficking: • Does the person appear disconnected from family, ...

Human smuggling and human trafficking are often confused. Here's what investigators say separates the two crimes and how ...

As I commemorated Martin Luther King, Jr. this week and thought about racial justice, I realize that one area we don’t talk enough about is the racialized reality of human trafficking. According to ...

Human trafficking takes place in every region of the world: Human beings are sold, bought and traded much like objects. Victims of trafficking end up in the hands of traffickers because they are being ...

William Battle | United Nations Information Center, Washington D.C. Human trafficking is one of the most serious human rights violations of our time. It affects every country in the world—as a place ...

More than a dozen men are facing charges tied to a recent human trafficking sting operation in Miami. The Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office announced the arrests on Friday, saying the people were ...

This post is co-written by Lauryn Tham, an undergraduate student at the University of Southern California. When you imagine a sex trafficker, do you picture some scary man lurking in the shadows of a ...

Content Warning: Discussion of human trafficking and sexual exploitation throughout. (This is the second of two articles on Virginia’s efforts against trafficking) To combat human sex trafficking, a ...