January 26, 2012
FACT OF THE DAY
270,000 human trafficking victims – which is 11% of the global human trafficking victim population - are in industrialized countries
(Source: UN.GIFT).
GEORGIA
A woman who survived forced prostitution as a teenager tells Channel 2 Action News she thought she wouldn't make it.
As an AJC editorial writer for 12 years, I spent a lot of time writing about the problems of Clayton schools and its dysfunctional school board.
As the nation gears up for this year's Super Bowl in Indianapolis, law enforcement officials there are getting ready for the influx of children and their captors who make up a large part of the sex trade industry.
A Johns Creek man has been sentenced to six years in prison for manipulating pictures of girls in his neighborhood to make child pornography.
Police received a tip Jan.5 that possible prostitution was taking place at the Studio 6 extended stay motel on Old Dogwood Road in Roswell.
According to the police report obtained by 11Alive News, East Point Police arrested her on November 9 after she agreed to have sex with an undercover officer in exchange for $40.
A high-ranking Northwest Georgia Bank official was one of 15 people charged with soliciting a prostitute in an undercover sting in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Tuesday night was a happening night inside the University Center as attendees entered The Tunnel, an event held to illustrate various types of oppression.
It started as a teenage girl's accusations. Nearly two years later, an Atlanta police officer said he's spent thousands of dollars, missed out more than on a year of his young daughter's life and could lose his home.
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.
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
Recent high-profile cases of child sex abuse have roused national revulsion against the adults who perpetrated them.
Human trafficking is a global problem.
Sister Joellen Sbrissa of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph has spent most of her life working for systemic change on social issues, starting decades ago in the Cook County Jail as a women’s advocate.
California law requires companies to make clear what they are doing to rid their foreign suppliers from the use forced labor or human trafficking.
Police in Titusville say two people face charges after a sex trafficking sting.
In November, a terrified 13-year-old girl pounded on an apartment door in Brooklyn.
Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times has a heartrending story today about underage prostitutes who are pimped out on Backpage.com, a website with roots in the swinging personal ads that have appeared at the back of the Village Voice since the 1960s.
WORLD
One of the most critical socioeconomic issues causing concerns to the whole world is Human Trafficking.
Julia Immonen, Debbie Beadle, Helen Leigh, Kate Richardson and Katie Pattison-Hart elevated the issue of human trafficking on the global agenda by rowing 24 hours a day -- two hours on, two hours off -- in The Guardian, Supported by ManpowerGroup, and battling 30-foot waves, violent sea sickness, sleep deprivation, the failure of their steering system and their water-maker catching fire, requiring a laborious hand-pumping process to produce vital drinking water.
Whereas Asia and the Pacific region is where this trade is at its zenith, however human trafficking takes place around the world.
