Human Trafficking

Finance

Tim Ballard is a former U.S. government agent and the founder of Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.), a nonprofit that assists law enforcement in rescuing victims of child e...

Finance

Modern slavery refers to situations where individuals are coerced, deceived, or forced into labor or services against their will. According to the International Labour Organizat...

Finance

Virginia Giuffre, born in 1983, says she was trafficked beginning around 2000, when she was a minor. According to court documents and public records, the alleged abuse continued...

Finance

Throughout history, women were confined in cages or bound as property in systems of chattel slavery, debt bondage, and wartime captivity. Enslavers used cages, chains, and ropes...

Finance

A woman held captive for years may experience prolonged isolation, physical harm, and financial control by the captor. Captors often restrict access to money, identification, an...

social-issues

Women kept in captivity, bound, or held in conditions of slavery represent some of the most severe violations of human rights. This evergreen explainer outlines the patterns tha...

crime-and-investigations

Human trafficking actors include recruiters, facilitators, transporters, exploiters, and financiers who enable the recruitment, movement, and exploitation of people for compelle...