A young girl poses provocatively in a dark hotel room. For a set fee, any willing customer can pay to have sex with her. For investigators attempting to track down sex traffickers and their victims, these online advertisements can contain...
According to the International Labor Organization, of the 21 million people worldwide who are victims of forced labor, 4.5 million are victims of forced sexual exploitation. The United States remains a major hub for this illegal industry as 7,572 cases of...
A young girl poses provocatively in a dark hotel room. For a set fee, any willing customer can pay to have sex with her. For investigators attempting to track down sex traffickers and their victims, these online advertisements can contain...
Business travellers can join the fight against sex trafficking by taking a few simple pictures of their hotel rooms, which investigators can then use to identify locations that commonly appear in images of trafficking victims. January is National Slavery and...
Kimberly Ritter is the senior account manager specializing in large event planning at Nix Conference & Meeting Management in St. Louis. She also spearheads the company’s corporate social responsibility trafficking initiative. Ritter is the director for development for Exchange Initiative,...
