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Correlation Between Dating Violence and Human Trafficking
By Ashden Brooke Robinson: undergraduate student: B.S. majoring in Criminal Justice, University of Missouri Saint Louis (UMSL); Gateway Human Trafficking Intern. Can you imagine the person you date forcing you into human trafficking? Would you feel like the whole...
In honor of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG)
By Ashden Brooke Robinson; B.S. majoring in Criminal Justice, University of Missouri Saint Louis (UMSL); Gateway Human Trafficking Intern. How would it feel as an Indigenous woman knowing you are at a higher risk for getting human trafficked or knowing as a mother...
Indicators of Sex and Labor Trafficking
By Nicole Caldwell, Undergraduate Student: B.A. in French with a minor in Political Science, University of Missouri in St. Louis (UMSL); Gateway Human Trafficking Intern. If someone asked you to identify a potential trafficking victim, what signs would you look for?...
Honoring January
By: Roy Joachimstaler, Retired Police Executive and Board Member of Gateway Human Trafficking As we closeout the first month of 2022, it's good to reflect on the direction and purpose in our attempts to educate the community in the hazards associated with Human...
Trick-or-Treat: the Dark Side of the Chocolate Industry
By Shima Rostami, Ed.D., Executive Director, Gateway Human Trafficking Halloween is a sweet holiday. According to the National Retail Federation, nearly two-thirds of Americans plan to celebrate Halloween in 2021, spending a record $10.1 billion, up from $8 billion...
A pandemic within the covid-19 pandemic: A Shocking Increase in Trafficking and Vulnerability
By Sara Bratton Bradbury, MSW, Brown School of Social Work Washington University in St. Louis We have now passed about two years in which the entire world was affected due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A year which brought job losses, school closures, increased housing...
In Honor of “World Day Against Human Trafficking”
Trafficking Situation Worldwide and in Missouri By Nicole Caldwell, Undergraduate Student: B.A. in French with a minor in Political Science, University of Missouri in St. Louis (UMSL); Gateway Human Trafficking Intern At this very moment, it is estimated that more...
Child Labor Trafficking
The first time I heard about child labor trafficking was six years ago in a class where I thought I was only going to be learning about sex trafficking, because I did not know anything about labor trafficking. The videos shown were devastating. Children as young as...
What is Labor Trafficking? – Part one
According to the World Economic Forum, 114 million people lost their jobs in 2020 due to the COVID-19 lockdowns resulting in approximately $3.7 trillion in lost in labor income (Richter, 2021). An August 2020 article stated that the global pandemic was “expected to...
An Overview of Child Trafficking
By Nicole Caldwell, Undergraduate Student: B.A. in French with a minor in Political Science, University of Missouri in St. Louis (UMSL); Gateway Human Trafficking Intern Did you know that 1 in 4 victims of human trafficking worldwide are children? (1) In honor of...