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Prisons and Jails: A Fertile Recruiting Ground for Human Trafficking
When you think of human trafficking, here are two factors you may not have considered. Both of these factors involve the need for prison reform. 1.Too often traffickers target female prisoners on their release. 2.Children of mothers who are incarcerated all too...
Tahirih Justice Center – Protecting Immigrant Women
Human exploitation takes many forms, but all of them have one thing in common: exploiters prey on the vulnerable. The Tahirih Justice center focuses on helping a particularly vulnerable group, immigrant women and girls. Tahirih has an impressive record of helping...
Let’s Talk about LGBTQ Young People
By Mitzi Perdue Want an extraordinary statistic? One that is deeply disturbing and that may be even worse than it seems? Forty percent of runaway and homeless youth identify as LGBTQ. That makes them prime targets for either survival sex or for being victims of...
Watching Pornography – a Harmless Pastime?
Is pornography a harmless activity? A “No harm, no foul” situation? Nina Bullock from Fight the New Drug has emphatic answers. Her answers are, “No!” and “No!” The “new drug” that her organization is fighting is pornography. It resembles a street drug in that it...
Evil at Its Worst
Jim Conrad is a Delaware Poet who wrote this poem, Evil at Its Worst, for Win This Fight. A great big Thank You to Conrad for doing this! Poetry can focus and intensity emotions as words alone cannot. Again, thank you, Jim Conrad, for writing this. ...
Combatting Trafficking and a “Pearl Experience”
By Mitzi Perdue The earrings you see in this illustration are stylish, unusual, and beautiful. However, when you know the story behind them, I bet you’ll see them as being even more beautiful. They’re a donation to Win This Fight, Stop Human Trafficking, and they’re...
Restore NYC: a Model for Measuring Impact
By Mitzi Perdue Want some additional validation for why combatting human trafficking is worth it? Then read the story of Juanita Garcia. (As usual, we are not using a real name.) Juanita’s story is about hope, catastrophic betrayal, suicide-inducing misery, and then...
KATIE FORD: FROM HELPING MODELS TO MODELING FREEDOM
KATIE FORD: FROM HELPING MODELS TO MODELING FREEDOM By Mitzi Perdue Katie Ford, former CEO of Ford Models, Inc., got a life-changing phone call in 2007. She was invited to speak at the UN about human trafficking awareness. She wasn’t at all sure why the UN would...
Using Counterterrorism Methods to Fight Modern Slavery
By Mitzi Perdue Our expert is Nic McKinley, Founder and CEO of DeliverFund, a nonprofit, private intelligence organization that uses counterterrorism techniques to combat modern slavery. DeliverFund is made up of former elite intelligence operators from the CIA, NSA,...
A Global Strategy to End Modern Slavery: Interview with Dr. Jean Baderschneider
Our expert is Dr. Jean Baderschneider, CEO and founding board member of the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery. This organization is designed to catalyze a global strategy to end human trafficking and to increase the necessary resources from the public and private...