tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-379050872024-03-15T21:09:55.820-04:00The Human Trafficking ProjectAn online movement dedicated to raising awareness of modern day slavery.JHakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11141025201617247428noreply@blogger.comBlogger1117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37905087.post-36061106284429897532017-02-20T19:18:00.004-05:002017-02-20T19:19:53.331-05:00Closing Up Shop
Dear Readership,
The time has come to retire this blog and move on to other things in my life, personal and professional alike.
That said, I will no longer personally be updating this blog. And as you may have noticed, that has been the case for several years, but it's time I made the announcement official.
I am, however, still passionate about raising awareness of trafficking, and would JHakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11141025201617247428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37905087.post-13812048837502148502011-10-27T13:10:00.000-04:002011-10-27T13:10:39.645-04:00MTV EXIT Live in Manila, Philippines
From Business World:
To raise awareness and increase prevention of human trafficking, MTV Networks has joined forces with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) to hold a concert in Manila this Saturday night at the SM Mall of Asia concert grounds in Pasay City.
The free outdoor concert will be JHakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11141025201617247428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37905087.post-52841438189729356472011-10-24T12:47:00.000-04:002011-10-24T12:47:08.119-04:00Food chain slaves
From Al Jazeera:
In the opening episode of Slavery: A 21st Century Evil, Al Jazeera's Rageh Omaar investigates food chain slavery, considered the easiest form of slavery to stamp out, in the US. The US has been leading the global fight against modern slavery. But, according to conservative estimates, there are between 40,000 and 50,000 slaves in the US today. So in this episode, Rageh questions JHakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11141025201617247428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37905087.post-4034074491236333342011-10-21T13:15:00.000-04:002011-10-21T13:15:14.964-04:00Beat Down Human Trafficking- Week #5
Here's another track from the album Beat Down Human Trafficking!
We will be releasing a new song off the album each Friday so be sure to check back next week for more. And if you like what you hear share it with your friends and help us raise awareness.
Click to Download: J Nice- The Definition
Beat Down Human Trafficking is a hip-hop album about modern day slavery.
JHakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11141025201617247428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37905087.post-57737778292767304152011-10-20T18:16:00.001-04:002011-10-20T18:17:15.078-04:00Sailing to Yemen with human traffickers
From Aljazeera:
By Glen Johnson
There were more than 30 people crammed on the back of the truck as the vehicle bumped through the desert in eastern Djibouti.
The passengers were men, women and children from Ethiopia and Somalia and myself. And all would be smuggled in boats from Djibouti to Yemen, as part of wider trafficking operations involving six countries - Saudi Arabia, Yemen, JHakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11141025201617247428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37905087.post-65610118721838383942011-10-19T14:34:00.000-04:002011-10-19T14:34:38.522-04:00MTV Exit Live in Manila, Philippines Promo
The event teaser for MTV Exit's Concert Event in Manila Philippines to raise awareness and fight human trafficking in Asia-Pacific.JHakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11141025201617247428noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37905087.post-35174545727534517732011-10-18T13:13:00.003-04:002011-10-18T13:14:33.275-04:00New UN fund awards $300,000 to help rehabilitate victims of human trafficking
From UN News Centre:
Organizations in 12 countries that help victims of human trafficking seek justice, return home and otherwise recover from their ordeal were collectively awarded some $300,000 today in the first grant of a new United Nations fund.
“A unique approach is being employed by the UN to channel severely needed funds to survivors of the horrific crime of human trafficking,” UN JHakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11141025201617247428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37905087.post-88561668341303744062011-10-17T15:09:00.000-04:002011-10-17T15:09:39.673-04:00Catholic Group Dropped From U.S. Human Trafficking Aid Contract Linked to AbortionFrom Bloomberg:
A Catholic group lost a bid to continue providing assistance to victims of human trafficking for what it says may be the Obama Administration’s support for abortion rights.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops was awarded a five- year contract that paid it $19 million to coordinate the services during the administration of President George W. Bush.
The contract was extendedJHakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11141025201617247428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37905087.post-35313889523664082212011-10-12T13:13:00.000-04:002011-10-12T13:13:38.599-04:00Fight Against Human Trafficking Loses Ground in 11 Nations
From Bloomberg:
By Victoria Pelham
The international fight against human trafficking, from abuses of migrant workers to organized prostitution networks, lost ground in the past year, the U.S. State Department reported.
The number of countries failing to comply with international standards to prevent human trafficking almost doubled to 23, according to U.S. State Department’s 2011 Trafficking in JHakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11141025201617247428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37905087.post-74927906914084263752011-10-11T13:19:00.002-04:002011-10-11T13:20:54.286-04:00Community Question: What anti-trafficking initiatives do you find innovative?
What anti-trafficking programs, projects or ideas inspire you?
From helpful technology to comic books, yoga classes to mountain climbing, mass freeze activities to music there is no shortage of ways we are coming together to innovate and help raise awareness of modern day slavery and make a difference.
Share your thoughts with the community and let's collectively discover and JHakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11141025201617247428noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37905087.post-11876763310275095552011-10-10T13:46:00.000-04:002011-10-10T13:46:55.572-04:00Sex, Human Trafficking Thriving In Australia
From Voice of America:
By Phil Mercer
Anti-trafficking campaigners say human trafficking is thriving in Australia, with women brought from Asia forced to work in the sex industry. The warning follows the release of new details of two police investigations in Australia that have identified alleged links between legal brothels and illegal trafficking syndicates.
Rights activists and JHakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11141025201617247428noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37905087.post-59573474383313949352011-10-07T12:54:00.000-04:002011-10-07T12:54:28.246-04:00Beat Down Human Trafficking- Week #4
Here's another track from the album Beat Down Human Trafficking!
We will be releasing a new song off the album each Friday so be sure to check back next week for more. And if you like what you hear share it with your friends and help us raise awareness.
Click to Download: J Nice- Human Trafficking Pt II
Beat Down Human Trafficking is a hip-hop album about modern day slavery. JHakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11141025201617247428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37905087.post-15721991669922801372011-10-05T01:57:00.000-04:002011-10-05T01:57:04.594-04:00Emmanuel Jal - Warchild
Emmanuel Jal, child-soldier of Sudan turned Hip-Hop artist, has incorporated his experiences into his album "Warchild," released on May 13, 2008. The inspirations for the 13 songs on "Warchild" are rooted in Jal's impossible past.
Learn more about Emmanuel
JHakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11141025201617247428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37905087.post-85315077117007936862011-10-03T13:24:00.000-04:002011-10-03T13:24:40.212-04:00Human Trafficking at the Superbowl
The attorney general is sounding an alarm today about the dark side of the Super Bowl. Greg Zoeller says there will be an increase in demand for the illegal commercial sex trade in connection with the Super Bowl and, he says, we ought to expect that some of sex workers who come here are the victims of human trafficking.
JHakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11141025201617247428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37905087.post-4231636915304706822011-09-30T12:52:00.005-04:002011-09-30T13:02:47.471-04:00Beat Down Human Trafficking- Week #3
Here's another track from the album Beat Down Human Trafficking!
We will be releasing a new song off the album each Friday so be sure to check back next week for more. And if you like what you hear share it with your friends and help us raise awareness.
Click to Download: J Nice- Set Up Shop
Beat Down Human Trafficking is a hip-hop album about modern day slavery.
During a JHakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11141025201617247428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37905087.post-85475437007496011782011-09-29T12:58:00.005-04:002011-09-29T13:21:11.271-04:00Support the Human Trafficking Project on Facebook
Dear HTP community,
Keep in touch by Liking us on Facebook!
Share relevant events with the rest of the community on our fan page, let us know what you're doing to raise awareness and prevent trafficking and get notified of special offers on trafficking events around the country.
We are constantly working to make HTP as helpful as possible, so if you have ideas for what you would like to see on JHakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11141025201617247428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37905087.post-62142800870683191302011-09-29T12:48:00.000-04:002011-09-29T12:48:49.043-04:00World must do better to tackle human trafficking
From the UN News Centre: The President of the General Assembly today called for redoubled efforts to tackle human trafficking, which the United Nations anti-crime agency says is a multi-billion dollar industry and one that enslaves some 2.4 million people at any given time, many of whom are children
“Although human trafficking takes place in the dark margins of our societies, we must not ignoreJHakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11141025201617247428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37905087.post-59286378204211506202011-09-28T12:22:00.001-04:002011-09-28T12:22:33.314-04:00Clinton Global Initiative: The Key Players Fighting Human Trafficking
From the Huffington Post:
The Clinton Global Initiative took a frank look at human trafficking with a panel that included MTV, the Body Shop and a student who busted a trafficking ring.
CGI, an annual meeting that brings together leaders from around the globe to tackle some of the world's most pressing problems, convened Tuesday to Thursday.
A trafficking panel discussion on Thursday JHakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11141025201617247428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37905087.post-23814742403930009542011-09-27T10:34:00.001-04:002011-09-27T10:36:00.693-04:00South Korea: The stimulus plan, sexism, and sex trafficking
From the Washington Times:
By Youngbee Dale
The San Francisco Chronicle reported the story of You Mi Kim, a woman from South Korea forced into prostitution in the United States to pay off her $40,000 credit card debt. To pay off her heavy debt, she worked in a massage parlor that was actually a brothel, serving dozens of men in downtown Los Angeles and San Francisco.Since the Chronicle JHakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11141025201617247428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37905087.post-68654939544850768222011-09-26T22:05:00.000-04:002011-09-26T22:05:17.304-04:00Launch: The mtvU Against Our Will Campaign
From mtvU:
The mtvU Against Our Will Campaign was launched in September 2011 in partnership with Free the Slaves, GEMS, and Polaris Project. The campaign amplifies America's college students' efforts to end modern-day slavery in the U.S., and empowers them to learn more and get involved. The name mtvU's Against Our Will Campaign, reflects the simple fact that this violation of our most JHakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11141025201617247428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37905087.post-22494920043014250092011-09-23T13:30:00.002-04:002011-09-23T13:31:15.738-04:00The Philippines: 40% of male foreign tourists on sex tours
From the Phil Star:
At least 40 percent of male foreign tourists in the country, including Americans, come for sexual tourism, US Ambassador Harry Thomas Jr. said yesterday.
“I estimate that maybe up to 40 percent of foreign men who come here come for sexual tourism and that is unacceptable.
And any of them engaged in things that violate the law whether they are American or other foreigner JHakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11141025201617247428noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37905087.post-37533338150575608752011-09-21T20:06:00.001-04:002011-09-21T20:06:50.355-04:00Global Anti-Slavery Action Map Advances Fight Against Human Trafficking
From Market Watch:
End Slavery Now (ESN) today announced the successful launch of the new anti-slavery "Action on the Ground" project map, the first comprehensive and interactive web-based app to track the global fight against human trafficking. The new tool allows partner NGOs around the world to upload projects, photos and links; making it easy to see what organizations are doing to JHakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11141025201617247428noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37905087.post-39959864003745943442011-09-20T14:25:00.000-04:002011-09-20T14:25:18.851-04:00A Conversation Among Men About Sex Trafficking
The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women held a panel titled, A Conversation Among Men About Sex Trafficking on December 2, 2009 in New York City at the NYU Wasserman Center. The panelists included author, Aaron Cohen, actor/activist Michael Cory Davis, musician/philanthropist, Peter Buffett and Poet/activist Jonathan Paul Walton.
The causes of human trafficking are many with male JHakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11141025201617247428noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37905087.post-53816002712594865332011-09-19T13:18:00.001-04:002011-09-19T13:18:48.600-04:00Human Trafficking on the Silver Screen: The Whistleblower
From Women's News Network:
In 1999, Kathryn Bolkovac, a single mother from Nebraska and a seasoned cop, joined the U.N. peacekeeping force in Bosnia, a country still in tumult after its brutal civil war. Her job was to investigate the sex trafficking of young women from Eastern Europe. Once she began collecting evidence from the victims she discovered that a number of U.N. officers – the very JHakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11141025201617247428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37905087.post-23112541143528358652011-09-15T13:08:00.002-04:002011-09-15T13:09:30.965-04:00Kenya: Sex-trafficked women and girls also vulnerable to organ trafficking
From Women News Network:
By Gitonga Njeru
With the highest rate of human trafficking in East and Central Africa, several nongovernmental organizations in Kenya are now under investigation by INTERPOL , the world’s largest international police organization, with 188 member countries. The Interpol Sub-regional Bureau for Eastern Africa is based in Kenya’s capital in Nairobi.
Young women as JHakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11141025201617247428noreply@blogger.com1