by Kelli Ross | Feb 8, 2017 | Our Stories
This week, the Human Trafficking Institute is launching its International Legal Fellows program. The program is open to recent law graduates and will provide them with practical legal experience within a Partner Country’s criminal justice system. Each International...
by Kelli Ross | Feb 3, 2017 | Our Stories, Stories from the Field
Founding Director John Richmond recently returned from a visit to Belize where he met with government officials, prosecutors, and nonprofit organizations working to fight trafficking in this country.
by John Richmond | Jan 31, 2017 | Our Stories
“The Root Cause of Human Trafficking is Traffickers.” Some might wonder, “How can someone make this statement? After all, aren’t there many interconnected causes of human trafficking?” People might argue that poverty, lack of education, immigration policy,...
by Kelli Ross | Jan 17, 2017 | In the News
Founding Directors John Cotton Richmond and Victor Boutros recently discussed the Human Trafficking Institute with Dr. Sandra Morgan and Dave Stachowiak at Vanguard University’s Global Center for Women and Justice. Morgan and Stachowiak ask three questions that...
by Takim Williams | Jan 11, 2017 | #InContext
By: TAKIM WILLIAMS Between 1640 and 1807, Great Britain was the largest supplier of slaves in the New World, responsible for transporting over 3 million Africans (many of whom died on the way) to its colonies in the Caribbean and the Americas. By the time William...