How Support Secured Mai’s Freedom
November 23, 2020
When Mai* was seven, her parents sent her away from their home in Myanmar to live with her aunt in Thailand so she could get
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When Mai* was seven, her parents sent her away from their home in Myanmar to live with her aunt in Thailand so she could get
Over the years, there has been growing awareness of the prevalence of sexual assault and violence–whether sex trafficking, rape, child abuse or any of its
Everyone who has looked closely at the issue of human trafficking knows there’s a data problem. It’s impossible to know exactly how many victims there
About 10 to 15 years ago, when people heard about the horrors of child trafficking and felt compelled to do something to help fight it,
In the recent sudden upswing in social media interest around child trafficking, there seemed to be an insinuation that child trafficking is an issue everyone
One would assume that upon rescue and rehabilitation after being trafficked, that survivors would jump at the chance to go home and return to their
The very nature of sex trafficking makes it incredibly difficult to track. There’s no national or international registry of sex traffickers, no single document tracing
As understanding about sex trafficking has evolved over time, practitioners have had to grapple with the problems that come from lack of clarity between prostitution
The most common media narrative about trafficking looks something like: trafficked ⇒ rescued ⇒ saved ⇒ happily ever after. Unfortunately, for many who have been
When we talk about child trafficking, we try to be very careful about the language that we use because language matters. Even though it can
