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Douglass Fellows Host Advocacy Events to Raise Awareness

by Molly Wicker | Apr 19, 2019

Each year, the Douglass Fellows program has participants from elite law schools across the country. Throughout the year, Fellows are asked to...

TraffickingMatters.com Celebrates One-Year Anniversary

by Taylor King | Apr 18, 2019

One year ago today – April 18, 2018 – the Institute launched TraffickingMatters.com, a first-of-its-kind global resource platform to combat human...

Israelite Featured in Bucknell Alumni Magazine

by Molly Wicker | Apr 17, 2019

The Institute’s Director of Victim Services, Marie Martinez Israelite, was featured in the spring issue of Bucknell University’s alumni magazine....

Federal Human Trafficking Report Finds U.S. Federal Courts Handled 771 Human Trafficking Cases in 2018

by Kelli Ross | Apr 16, 2019

WASHINGTON, DC – The 2018 Federal Human Trafficking Report was released April 10 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The Report, a...

2018 Federal Human Trafficking Report

by Kyleigh Feehs | Apr 10, 2019

The 2018 Federal Human Trafficking Report provides an exhaustive account of all criminal and civil human trafficking cases handled by federal courts...

#InContext: Harriet Jacobs

by Ariana Hadden | Apr 3, 2019

By: ARIANA HADDEN For some individuals, freedom is never an option to begin with. They are born into the world without rights, without justice, and...

#InContext: William Lloyd Garrison

by Ariana Hadden | Mar 27, 2019

Known for creating an abolitionist newspaper called The Liberator, which garnered both positive and negative attention, William Lloyd Garrison is...

Federal Report Cited in Washington Post

by Molly Wicker | Mar 27, 2019

The Human Trafficking Institute’s 2017 Federal Human Trafficking Report was cited as a source of data in an article published by The Washington Post...