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January 5, 2012

 
FACT OF THE DAY
In Georgia, men who respond to advertisements for sex with young females come from all over metro Atlanta
 
 
GEORGIA
For the past 12 years, Stephanie Davis has worked to stop human trafficking and, more urgently, child prostitution in Atlanta.
Pastor Rhys Stenner and the church family of New Hope Baptist in Fayetteville will present the Third annual Come Together Benefit Concert for Wellspring Living featuring a list of renowned awarding winning gospel artists and the New Hope Baptist Church Choir and Orchestra.
ATLANTA -- Passion 2012, a Christian Conference at the Georgia World Congress Center has drawn 42000 students from all 50 states and 30 countries.
A group of Christian students has donated $100000 to the city of Atlanta to help fight human trafficking.
 
 
GEORGIA EVENTS
Please visit our Anti-Human Trafficking Events Calendar for a list of upcoming events in Georgia. If you know of an event that is not listed on our calendar, please let us know by contacting Toby Tatum.
 
 
NATIONAL
‎He now uses his unique background to investigate and stop modern slavery in the U.S. and beyond.
A family emergency necessitating a trip to North Carolina the last week of the year meant that I wrote this column on Christmas Day.
On an unseasonably blustery day in Atlanta, actress Julia Ormond's dark hair is pulled back in a jagged ponytail and she's clutching a loose sweater around her slender frame.
ATLANTA--GAIN recognized Greenberg Traurig for hosting a fundraiser earlier in the year that included a panel discussion and special showing of Redlight, a documentary about human trafficking that follows the personal stories of several Cambodian children who are current or former sex slaves.
A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced a Wilmington man to 30 years in prison for producing and transporting child pornography.
Trafficking victims in Virginia have few options for help.
A bill to close loopholes in Indiana's sex-trafficking law has cleared the first hurdle in what could be a whirlwind trip to becoming law.
Could you have possibly imagined that there are 30 million slaves in the world today, more than any other point in human history?
President Obama is declaring January to be National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month.
 
 
WORLD
What was meant to be a stable job in a hairdressing salon became a nightmare for six Nigerian girls who were trafficked from their country to Ghana and pushed into prostitution at Prampram in the Greater Accra Region.
US retailers and manufactures will be forced to disclose how they guard against slavery and human trafficking throughout their supply chains from 2012.
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has set up an anti-human trafficking unit, headquartered in the National Capital, to conduct operations against women and child traffickers and also to deal with kidnapping cases.
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