Powerfully raw, deeply moving, and utterly authentic. Rachel Lloyd has turned a personal atrocity into triumph and is nothing less than a true hero
Human trafficking has captured worldwide attention as a crucial moral and political issue, but perhaps nowhere more than in the United States.
This is a true story of human trafficking in America as told through the testimony of a landmark federal trial which took place at the heart of one of the country s wealthiest states, Connecticut, over the course of eight days in 2007.
An unforgettable, deeply affecting debut novel, The Blue Notebook tells the story of Batuk, a precocious fifteen -year-old girl from rural India who is sold into sexual slavery by her father.
The average age of entry into prostitution in America is 13 years old. Forced into a life they never chose, manipulated, abused and tortured at the hands of the pimps who control them, our country’s children are sold on the streets, on the internet and at truck stops across America every night.
In this riveting book, the authors and authorities on modern day slavery expose the disturbing phenomenon of human trafficking and slavery that exists now in the United States.
Each year, more than 800,000 women and children are lured, tricked, or forced into prostitution to meet an apparently insatiable demand, joining an estimated 10 million women already ensnared in the $20 billion worldwide sex trade.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of women and children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold into forced prostitution, coerced to service hundreds if not thousands of men before being discarded.
Written by Ahava Kids Founder and Director, Raymond Bechard, this book will finally bring the dark world of Child Trafficking into the light of day.
Today, two cultural forces are converging to make America’s youth easy targets for sex traffickers.
A majority of the existing literature on human trafficking is based on the Trafficking Protocol (2000), and provides limited historical analysis of the preceding law on the subject.
Sanders draws from her own experience being trafficked plus her insights gained from years of advocacy and anti-trafficking work.
