Child Abuse, Child Trafficking, Foster Care, Human Trafficking
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 Abuse, Child Trafficking, Exploitation
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...
Child Abuse, Child Labor, Child Trafficking, Domestic Violence, Exploitation, Human Traffickers, Human Trafficking, Labor Trafficking, Sex Trafficking, Women and Girls
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...
Child Abuse, Exploitation, Human Traffickers, Human Trafficking, 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. Very few research studies specifically examine people who sex-traffic others. The available...
Child Abuse, Exploitation, Individuals with Disabilities, 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. Human trafficking of people with disabilities (PWD) is an understudied area of research and...
Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous People, Child Abuse, Child Trafficking, Exploitation, Human Trafficking, Labor Trafficking, Sex Trafficking, Working Children
By K. Omin Jih Victimization of human trafficking remains the most urgent crisis in the modern Native American community. Several risk factors that originated from the beginning of colonization are still influencing the Native population negatively and consistently;...