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This website tries to help restore and rescue women and children involved in the human trafficking crisis. The founders are leaders in a worldwide effort to prevent and eliminate sex trafficking and slavery through education and public awareness.

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Shared Hope International is dedicated to bringing an end to sex trafficking through our three-prong approach.

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On this website, it shows a comprehensive coverage of the Human Trafficking issue.

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GET HELP. Report a Tip. Request Services.

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End Child Prostitution And Trafficking (ECPAT) 

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End Child Prostitution And Trafficking (ECPAT) 

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ECPAT is a nonprofit children's rights organization whose mission is to protect children in the US and abroad from commercial explotation.

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The Women's Group of the Greens Chooses ECPAT-USA as the Recipient of Donations from the Annual Book and Author Luncheon

The Women's Group of the Greens, a non-sectarian philanthropic organization located in Melville, New York, held their annual Book and Author Luncheon on May 11, 2017, at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury, New York. Every year, the organization chooses a charity to receive the donations from the luncheon, which includes raffles ticket sales. This year ECPAT-USA was honored to be the recipient. The donation is specifically designated for ECPAT's Youth Against Child Trafficking program and will be awarded at their annual meeting next month. Thanks go to Susan Viviani, a member of the organization who suggested ECPAT as a worthy charity.The event was very well attended. There were more than 250 members and their guests in attendance, including two ECPAT-USA Board members, Deborah Morea and Karen Weiss. A co-chair of the event, Cookie Edell, spoke passionately about ECPAT's mission. The event's speaker was best-selling author Randy Susan Meyers, who provided a humorous and informative peak into the process of fiction writing, with focus on her latest novel, The Widow of Wall Street. Ms. Meyers capped off this great event by announcing that she was donating her speaker's fee and all of the proceeds from the sale of her books at the event to ECPAT-USA. Her generosity was overwhelming!

To protect every child's basic human right to grow up free from the threat of sexual exploitation and trafficking. ECPAT-USA does this in four primary ways:
ECPAT-USA advocates for federal and state legislation that prevents exploitation, protects children, and guarantees that any child who is subjected to sexual slavery or sex trafficking will not be prosecuted in the courts for prostitution;
ECPAT-USA promotes corporate responsibility among private companies with a strong focus on the tourism sector.
ECPAT-USA educates first responders and ordinary citizens about this issue so that they can identify victims and join us in the fight to better protect children.
ECPAT-USA empowers youth to take the lead against human trafficking by equipping them with the knowledge and tools necessary to help them become activists against this terrible trade.

ECPAT-USA is the leading anti-trafficking policy organization in the United States. ECPAT-USA belongs to an international network of organization in 80 countries, all working to end the commercial sexual exploitation of children.

The Women's Group of the Greens Chooses ECPAT-USA as the Recipient of Donations from the Annual Book and Author Luncheon

The Women's Group of the Greens, a non-sectarian philanthropic organization located in Melville, New York, held their annual Book and Author Luncheon on May 11, 2017, at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury, New York. Every year, the organization chooses a charity to receive the donations from the luncheon, which includes raffles ticket sales. This year ECPAT-USA was honored to be the recipient. The donation is specifically designated for ECPAT's Youth Against Child Trafficking program and will be awarded at their annual meeting next month. Thanks go to Susan Viviani, a member of the organization who suggested ECPAT as a worthy charity.The event was very well attended. There were more than 250 members and their guests in attendance, including two ECPAT-USA Board members, Deborah Morea and Karen Weiss. A co-chair of the event, Cookie Edell, spoke passionately about ECPAT's mission. The event's speaker was best-selling author Randy Susan Meyers, who provided a humorous and informative peak into the process of fiction writing, with focus on her latest novel, The Widow of Wall Street. Ms. Meyers capped off this great event by announcing that she was donating her speaker's fee and all of the proceeds from the sale of her books at the event to ECPAT-USA. Her generosity was overwhelming!

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Program Updates Y-ACT leaders at the Academy for Future Leaders Through ECPAT's partnership with Citizen Schools, we're able to bring our Youth Against Child Trafficking (Y-ACT) program to the middle school population. During the course of a 10-week apprenticeship, 7th graders at the Academy for Future leaders learned about the issue of child trafficking, what ...

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Human trafficking victim: 'Part of me is still dead'

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Human trafficking victim: 'Part of me is still dead'

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In this video, a young girl named Courtney talks with FOX News about her human trafficking experience and how she copes with it today.

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Human trafficking victim: 'Part of me is still dead'

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'On the Record Investigates: Stolen Lives': 'Courtney,' a human trafficking survivor, describes her terrifying ordeal

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In this video, author of "In Our Backyard", Nita Belles describes the inhumane activities and tragedies that victims go through.

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Uploaded by In Our Backyard on 2015-01-15.

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On this website, it explains what human trafficking is along with videos, and articles upon how the organization was founded.

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Traffick911 is a Texas-based non-profit organization who exists to free American youth from sex trafficking through prevention, identification and empowerment.

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Nearly 500 arrested in California human trafficking raids

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Nearly 500 arrested in California human trafficking raids

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In this article nearly 500 people were arrested a crackdown on human trafficking in California. Police admitted that these raids led to the rescue of more than 50 victims, and children.

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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Almost 500 people were arrested in a crackdown on human trafficking in California, police said on Wednesday, in raids that also led to the rescue of more than 50 victims, including children.

Police said they had rescued 28 children, some of whom had been reported missing, and also 27 adults who had been coerced into prostitution.

"We let everybody know throughout the state that ... we're going to aggressively go after the pimps and the exploiters, as well as the johns and especially the johns that think that they can prey on the minors," said Kent Wegener, a lieutenant with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

Police arrested 474 people and freed victims in and around cities from Los Angeles to San Diego and Santa Barbara in state-wide raids over three days in late January, Wegener said.

Charges against those arrested include pimping, solicitation of prostitution and human trafficking, said the San Diego Country District Attorney's office in a statement.

The crackdown was carried out to coincide with the end of Human Trafficking Awareness Month in January, which former President Barack Obama proclaimed in 2014.

More cases of human trafficking were reported in California than in any other U.S. state last year, according to data from the National Human Trafficking Resource Center's hotline.

Some 5,500 cases of sex trafficking were reported to the center's hotline nationwide last year, according to its website.

Globally, nearly 21 million people are victims of human trafficking, according to the U.N.'s International Labour Organization. An estimated 4.5 million of them are forced into sex work.

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Nearly 500 arrested in California human trafficking raids

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By Sebastien MaloNEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Almost 500 people were arrested in a crackdown on human trafficking in California, police said on Wednesday, in raids that also led to the rescue of more than 50 victims, including children.Police said they had rescued 28 children, some of whom had been reported missing, and also 27 adults who had been coerced into prostitution."We let everybody know throughout the state that ...

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Study: Texas has about 313K human trafficking victims 

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Study: Texas has about 313K human trafficking victims 

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This article talks about the 313K people in Texas who have been forced into prostitution or another workforce.

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There are about 313,000 people in Texas who have been forced into prostitution or some other sort of work, researchers estimate in what they say is the broadest estimate ever conducted of human trafficking in Texas.

Roughly 234,000 of those people work under conditions of involuntary servitude or debt bondage, while the other 79,000 are children or young adults who were pushed into prostitution through coercion or some form of deception, according to the study released Tuesday by the Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault at the University of Texas' School of Social Work.

The authors said their estimates are conservative and that they hope their study will serve as a reference point for law enforcement tasked with reducing trafficking, including those in Houston who are gearing up for a surge in sex trafficking ahead of the Feb. 5 Super Bowl.

Authorities have acknowledged that Texas, as one of the largest states in the country, is a hub for human trafficking in the U.S. and that the problem is particularly acute in Houston.

The scope of human trafficking has been difficult to measure largely because data has focused primarily on identified victims, according to the report. So researchers in 2014 began collaborating with other groups on an extensive mapping project that mined various databases, surveyed social service agencies that aid victims, and used other sources to obtain a more accurate tally.

"This is our first glimpse into the scope and impact of human trafficking in Texas," said Noel Busch-Armendariz, the institute's director. "Few states have this kind of insight into the number of people being exploited. And more importantly, each count reflects a human being living among us in slavery-like conditions."

Among the findings are that children and young adults who are homeless or in the foster care system have the highest risk of becoming involved in sex trafficking. The study also determined that the largest number of victims of labor trafficking are found in construction, cleaning services and restaurant kitchen work.

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Study: Texas has about 313K human trafficking victims

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There are about 313,000 people in Texas who have been forced into prostitution or some other sort of work, researchers estimate in what they say is the broadest estimate ever conducted of human trafficking in Texas.

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Sex trafficking: The new American Slavery 

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Sex trafficking: The new American Slavery 

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In this article Dana Ford describes the atrocities that come with sex trafficking in the united states.

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Sex trafficking: The new American slavery | CNN

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CNN documentary “Children for Sale: The Fight to End Human Trafficking” looks at underage victims of sex trafficking and what can be done to help them.

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Everyday the importation of people into the United States are unlawful and upon force.

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Each day millions of women, men and children around the world are powerless to abuse and exploration in the workforce. There are 168 million child laborers, and 85 million who work in hazardous conditions around the globe.

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Most slaves are imprisoned indefinitly and never get released from captivity. Slaves get physically, and verbally abused and sometimes murdered.

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"In this video, the U.S. Department released the Trafficking in Persons Report which rates 188 countries on their efforts to stamp out human trafficking."

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u.s. releases human trafficking report - cnn video

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U.S. releases human trafficking report - CNN Video

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The U.S. State Department released the Trafficking in Persons Report which rates 188 countries on their efforts to stamp out human trafficking.

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Children as young as 12-14 years old get stripped from their childhoods, and are lucky to see their families again

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Sex trafficking is one of the most common types of labor. It is the recruitment, transportation, or receipt of persons for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation