by Zach Dawes Jr | Aug 2, 2022 | News
Faith-based organizations and religious leaders around the world are working in cooperation with governments and NGOs to help trafficking victims and raise awareness about human trafficking. However, despite all the good work being done by religious communities to...
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...
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 | 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 EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jul 23, 2018 | News
International support of local efforts by individuals and community-based organizations is vital to ending human trafficking, the U.S. State Department stated in its 2018 Trafficking in Persons report released on June 28. “The grinding reality of fighting modern...