[ad_1] The Demand Project is hosting its annual event Thursday and Friday teaching about what signs to look for in a sex exploitation situation. It is being held at the Owasso Tulsa Tech Campus. This is the fifth year of The Demand Project’s two-day “Beyond Awareness Summit” event that teachesContinue Reading
[ad_1] Molly Wright has been homeless numerous times in her life and in various cities, including San Antonio, Washington, D.C., and New York City. Now 48 and employed by a nonprofit agency, she’s managing — precariously — to stay sheltered. It’s impossible on her modest salary alone, so she sharesContinue Reading
[ad_1] LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Countries must enable victims of human trafficking to play a key role in programmes and policies to tackle the crime, the first global alliance of survivors-turned-advocates said on Monday. The 21-member International Survivors of Trafficking Advisory Council (ISTAC) aims to help governments improve theirContinue Reading
[ad_1] EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — More than a third of the 200 kids who age out of foster care each year in Colorado end up without shelter, that’s according to a survey that checks in on former foster care children when they turn 19 and 21. Kids Crossing,Continue Reading
[ad_1] Shelter needs $20,000 more to stay open 24/7 December 11, 2020 10:14 PM Emily Goodell Posted: December 11, 2020 10:14 PM TOPPENISH, Wash. — The newly-established extreme winter weather shelter in Toppenish is set to open Monday and will provide a safe, warm place to sleep for dozens ofContinue Reading
[ad_1] The balancing act between personal privacy and public safety has bedeviled Big Tech since the advent of instant messaging in the mid-1990s. From the beginning, the thorniest issues arose from the online sexual exploitation of children. But are technology companies responsible for the criminal use of their platforms? ManyContinue Reading
[ad_1] There’s a perception that human trafficking is a big-city problem that doesn’t happen in rural states like Wyoming. The truth is, however, that its ruralness and connectivity to major interstates makes the state prime for underground activity as a growing number of human trafficking cases are reported every year. This seriesContinue Reading
[ad_1] Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images For Christlie, a 33-year-old mother of two living in the Regents Family Residence on the Upper West Side, getting on the internet is an exhausting daily battle. She and her daughter Amina, 9, both need web access: Christlie is a communications student at Borough ofContinue Reading
[ad_1] MUMBAI: Maharashtra reported the highest number of human trafficking cases in the country for two years in a row– 2018 and 2019– although there was a year-on-year drop in cases by 9%. Data with the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) for last year shows that the state accounted forContinue Reading