by Esther Vivian Kay | Jul 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
The State Department recently released a report about human trafficking. In the report, the top three countries in which women and men fall victim to sex trafficking are the USA, Mexico, and the Philippines. Why, in such a country like the United States, is sex...
by Esther Vivian Kay | Jun 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
The so-called “Operation Trade Secrets” began a few months back with undercover deputies focusing on different locations, hotels, adult book stores, spas, and arresting people who frequent those places to buy and sell sex. Half of the arrested were women...
by Esther Vivian Kay | Jun 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
Child trafficking word cloud concept Backpage was founded in 2004 as an alternative advertising webpage. Soon it became the most important and biggest page for selling and buying sex. Beginning with 2011 the FBI was having an eye on the website, until it seized the...
by Esther Vivian Kay | Jun 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
Interview with Anna Fisher of Nordic Model Now! Anna: Many people try to make a distinction between sex trafficking and prostitution. But under the international definition of human trafficking, the distinction isn’t that great. Most pimping does, in fact, meet the...
by Esther Vivian Kay | May 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
In some counties in Nevada prostitution is legal. Not in the big cities though. In more rural places prostitution was made legal to make money because there is not much another business opportunity. One famous place is the Bunny Ranch in Nevada, run until last year by...
by Esther Vivian Kay | May 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
Not for sale What do you think, how many people are affected by human trafficking? According to the International Labour Organization, nearly 21 million people are victims of human trafficking and more than 50% of them are women and girls. Girls, that means underage....
by Esther Vivian Kay | Apr 23, 2019 | Awareness
Last week, student organizers at the College of William and Mary organized Tribe Against Trafficking, a week-long series of events devoted to ending sex trafficking. With panel discussions, the event is raising awareness and helping students not only to see that, it...
by Esther Vivian Kay | Apr 23, 2019 | Awareness
The Derby is a big event in Kentucky, and it is also a busy time for human traffickers. As Louisville is preparing for the sports event, victim advocates try to raise awareness. They point out the major warning signs of sex trafficking victims so that the public can...
by Esther Vivian Kay | Apr 13, 2019 | Awareness
About two months back President Trump declared his government would use “every resource we have to confront” the threat of human trafficking and support victims and survivors. Quite the opposite happened though. In the past victims of trafficking, who were not born in...
by Esther Vivian Kay | Apr 13, 2019 | Awareness
Farmers brand their cattle. Traffickers brand their property. Common tattoos are barcodes or the initials of the trafficker or pimp. Of course, not all women who have a barcode tattooed are victims of human trafficking. There is a lot more it needs to identity a women...
