TAG / HUMAN TRAFFICKING

Three new laws took effect on October 1 in the Sunshine State, imposing harsher penalties for trafficking minors, luring children and distributing nonconsensual sexual content.

As Australia boasts a Tier One US ranking for anti-trafficking efforts, the data expose a darker dimension: family-based coercion, forced marriage and exploitation hiding in plain sight.

Johnson transported victims and supplied firearms for a gang that trafficked five women, including a child. The Georgia AG says the community is safer now that LOTTO leaders are behind bars.

Survivors and attorneys are forcing the hospitality industry to pay a steep price for looking the other way while children were abused.

Survivors describe years of rape, beatings, threats and quota systems as trafficking jumps 1,900 percent in Montana.

Authorities vow long prison terms as California, already the nation’s trafficking epicenter, reels from crimes targeting foster children and runaways.

In a world where conflict dominates headlines and human rights fall victim to spin, censorship and competing agendas, a global summit at the UN gave young delegates the mic—and a mission.

A broken system. A public call to fix it. As the UK reels from rising trafficking cases, officials look to victims and frontline workers for answers.

A new lawsuit claims staff ignored obvious signs of child sex trafficking to keep rooms filled and cash flowing.

States are cracking down on the hospitality industry’s role in human trafficking. New mandates mean fewer blind eyes and faster interventions.