TAG / SEX TRAFFICKING

Last year, Germany slashed victim detections by 75 percent. The results are in—are other countries paying attention?

As one of the most profitable illegal trades in America, human trafficking is everywhere—and sometimes the individuals fueling this system are those we least expect. 

By exposing the sex trafficking that goes on everywhere, these filmmakers are advocates for the kind of change that can only start with awareness.

For sexual exploitation or forced labor, slavery continues—not only unabated, but growing to as many as 65 million victims worldwide.

The owners were jailed and the website assets confiscated, but the role of Tony Ortega—Backpage’s notorious sex trafficking champion—remains to be fully explored.

Over and over, sex trafficking and blackmail rings traffic women to centrally located Greece for forced prostitution and other sexual exploitation. Why isn’t the government doing more?

The “Can You See Me?” campaign raises awareness and encourages reporting of human trafficking to rescue victims.

Couple trafficked Thai women to Scotland, burdened them with huge debt and forced them into prostitution to “pay it back.” The perpetrators face years in prison. 

The Daily Beast’s desperation to exercise their anti-Scientology bigotry causes them to ignore the compromised and deeply disturbing backgrounds of their sources.

Backpage was seized and shut down by the government, its founder jailed (after another committed suicide). So why are reporters standing up for the site and its sex trafficking?