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Empowering Survivors – Resources and Best Practices
By Victor R. Wilburn, Ph.D. Professor, The Department of Child and Family Studies, Southeast Missouri State University; Gateway Alliance against Human Trafficking Board Member. Families continue to exercise a wealth of opportunities to explore their communities and...
Fact Over Fiction: Honoring the True Heroes Among Us During Human Trafficking Awareness Month
By Gateway Alliance against Human Trafficking Team Every January, we recognize Human Trafficking Awareness Month and rally support for our work among the community that we need in this fight with us. But we also want to use this month as an opportunity to explain just...
Vulnerability to Human Trafficking among the Roma Population in Bulgaria
By Dora Fichter, JDProgram Committee Member, Gateway Alliance Against Human Trafficking The Roma is an ethnic group that originated in India and migrated to Europe around the 14th century. Often derogatorily referred to as “Gypsies,” a term that stems from the...
Exploited for Profit: The Hidden Crisis of Trafficking People with Disabilities
By Christine Sylvia, Ed.D., Gateway Alliance against Human Trafficking, Program Committee Human trafficking is about money, plain and simple...and trafficking is a very lucrative business. In 2024 alone, traffickers profited $236 billion from forced labor worldwide,...
Trafficking Risks in Migrant and Refugee Populations
By Dora Fichter, Attorney, Gateway Alliance against Human Trafficking, Program Committee Member Migrants are people who move away from their usual place of residence either across international borders or within their own country. There is no universally accepted...
Human Trafficking and Foster Care: Warning Signs and Prevention
By Abigail Meharg, Attorney, Gateway Alliance against Human Trafficking Program Committee Member The ultimate goal of the foster care system is to provide stable family environments for children and youth; foster care is meant to end once the parent or another...
Child Sexual Abuse and Sex Trafficking
By Andrea Nichols, Ph.D., Professor, St. Louis Community College Forest Park; Lecturer, Washington University in St. Louis; Gateway Alliance Against Human Trafficking Member. Research consistently finds an association between child sexual abuse (CSA) and sex...
What Do We Know About Human trafficking in Bulgaria?
By Dora Fichter, Esq; Program Committee Member, Gateway Alliance against Human Trafficking Bulgaria is a small southeast European country with population slightly less than 7 million and territory similar to that of the state of Tennessee. During the Cold War,...
From Enslavement to Sainthood: A Story of Resilience and Faith
By Sr Elizabeth Greim The many statistics, charts, and reports show us that there are many stories to be told about women, men, and especially children who have been trafficked throughout the world. Our hearts remind us that these numbers and percentages each...
Community Action and Awareness
By Andrea Nichols, Ph.D., Professor, St. Louis Community College Forest Park; Lecturer, Washington University in St. Louis; Gateway Alliance Against Human Trafficking Member. As we enter the New Year, which is also Human Trafficking Awareness Month, some readers of...