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...
COVID-19, Homepage, Human Trafficking
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...
COVID-19, Human Trafficking
Traffickers are adjusting their business models to the ‘new normal’ created by the COVID-19 outbreak By Shima Rostami, Ed.D., Executive Director, Gateway Human Trafficking For traffickers human trafficking is a business; for them it is about money and the profit they...
Child Labor, COVID-19, Human Trafficking
By Shima Rostami, Ed.D.; Executive Director, Gateway Human Trafficking Human trafficking is a hidden crime and there are many reasons that keep victims from seeking help such as language barriers, fear of traffickers, and/or fear of law enforcement. Additionally,...