by Pam Strickland | Jan 4, 2023 | Opinion
Sex trafficking operates on a market system. Where there is demand for commercial sex, traffickers capitalize on the opportunity to make an astronomical profit and supply that demand with human bodies for consumption. To a trafficker, commodification of a person is...
by Pam Strickland | Jan 6, 2022 | Opinion
Why does sex trafficking exist? Sex trafficking is a business like any other, in that the two components are supply and demand. Where demand exists for a product or service, someone will profit by supplying that product or service. There is demand for sex with “no...
by Pam Strickland | Dec 9, 2020 | Opinion
This week we celebrate the 72nd anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the momentous document created in the aftermath of World War II. The United Nations included this statement as Article 4 of the declaration: “No one shall...
by Pam Strickland | Aug 19, 2020 | Opinion
When I joined the anti-human trafficking movement, I was impressed by how apolitical it was. The first federal legislation regarding human trafficking – the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 – was sponsored by 38 Republicans and Democrats and passed almost...
by Pam Strickland | Jul 29, 2020 | Opinion
The United States led the world in the fight against human trafficking. But that was 20 years ago. In 2000, the United States Congress passed the bipartisan-supported Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) – the global gold standard for legislation that defined...
