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 Trafficking, COVID-19, Exploitation, Human Traffickers, Human Trafficking, Online Safety, Sex Trafficking
Ashden Brooke Robinson: undergraduate student: B.S. majoring in Criminal Justice, University of Missouri-Saint Louis (UMSL); Gateway Human Trafficking Intern. Edited and updated by Eryn Borders. Note: This article was originally written by Ashden Brooke Robinson 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;...
Child Abuse, Child Trafficking
By Dana Klar, JD, LCSW, Associate Teaching Professor at UMSL, Gateway Alliance against Human Trafficking Board Member There is no single definition of child abuse and neglect, as these terms are defined by federal and state laws. At the federal level, The Child...
