by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jun 30, 2020 | News
Government legislation to address human trafficking has been enacted, while public and faith community engagement in anti-trafficking initiatives has increased, over the past 20 years. Yet, an estimated 25 million persons remain enslaved worldwide, according to the...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Oct 9, 2019 | News
The number of reported human trafficking offenses increased in 2018, according to data released on Sept. 30 as part of the FBI’s annual “Crime in the U.S.” report. There were 1,392 reported offenses in 2018, up from 1,220 in 2017 and 1,196 in 2016, continuing a...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Aug 19, 2019 | News
Domestic labor trafficking in the U.S. is often overlooked by the public, and U.S. labor laws that protect workers generally exclude domestic laborers, according to a Polaris Project published July 24. From 2007 to 2017, the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jul 1, 2019 | News
“Transnational human trafficking” is often the focus in efforts to end modern-day slavery, while trafficking within nations is overlooked, according to the U.S. State Department’s 2019 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report published June 20. An estimated 24.9 million...
by Pam Strickland | Jun 11, 2019 | Opinion
“Child labor in the U.S.? That doesn’t happen here.” “I don’t contribute to that.” “I can’t do anything to stop it.” These are common statements I hear because child labor trafficking isn’t discussed much in the United States. Most of us think it happens in...
