By Mohana Ravindranath Published on December 8, 2013 in The Washington Post A few months ago, a worker monitoring a hotline for the Polaris Project, a nonprofit group dedicated to combating human trafficking, received a text message from an 18-year-old woman in distress. The...

By Oliver Balch Published on December 4, 2013 in The Guardian Spotting abuses in supply chains doesn't absolve corporations from the obligation of helping victims. It's their duty, not NGOs' After decades of silence and denial on modern-day slavery, big business is at last...

By Mike O'Sullivan Published on December 4, 2013 in Voice of America News The International Labor Organization says more than 20 million people are subject to forced labor, working on farms, in factories, or as domestic helpers.  Those who are fighting human trafficking say it...

By Trymaine Lee Published on November 21, 2013 on MSNBC When Kery Rodriguez was arrested earlier this year during a drug sting in Florida, law enforcement agents discovered that heroine wasn’t the only thing that Rodriguez and his crew were trafficking. According to...

By Maisie Ganzler Published on November 20, 2013 on the Huffington Post Blog It’s Thanksgiving time once again, and our tables will be filled with delectable dishes, many of them made with ingredients grown on American farms. As someone whose job it is to know as much as...

Member of the CAST Survivor Advisory Caucus Angela Guanzon was interviewed by Rachel Martin on NPR Weekend Edition on November 10, 2013. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Congressman Royce heard testimony from victims of trafficking this past week. One of them was the woman he mentioned in...

Published on February 15, 2013 in the New York Times Opinion Pages This week’s 78-to-22 vote in the Senate to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act provided a refreshing demonstration of bipartisanship that the House would do well to emulate. Last year, the Republican-led...

By Kevin Bales Published: February 8, 2013 Growing up in Ponca City, I couldn't imagining ever walking into the White House and shaking hands with the president. But it happened to me, near the end of George W. Bush's second term. He invited me to watch him sign the...

By Beth Jacobs Published on February 05, 2013 in To The Arizona Daily Star The horrors of slavery that took place 150 years ago in America were out in the open, even tolerated. All these years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, I want to share the horrors of...

By Neha Misra Published on February 2, 2013 in the Huffington Post Blog Trafficking in persons has become a big business. Globally, it's a $32 billion industry involving 161 countries -- including the United States. Trafficking in persons involves activities where one person...