by Valerie Carter Smith | Jan 6, 2023 | Opinion
I begrudgingly left home in the dark on Christmas Eve because I had made a promise to a very lonely woman that she would not have to spend Christmas alone. Two years prior, at 1:00 am on a Friday night, we met Gail during our street outreach to women. On the night of...
by Jennifer Allmon | Jan 5, 2023 | Opinion
Human trafficking is big business. The United Nation’s International Labor Organization estimates that human trafficking generates $150.2 billion in profit annually. This modern-day slavery happens in many ways, sometimes hidden in plain sight. People are forced into...
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 Nell Green | Aug 18, 2020 | Opinion
We sat around the table asking each other, “How can we address this?” A relative of one of our anti-trafficking coalition’s committee members had posted an article about a ruse where girls were lured to cars in a mall parking lot and kidnapped. After the abduction,...
