Airbnb is a popular online platform that allows property owners seeking to rent space to connect with potential guests. The company, valued at $31 billion in September of 2017, makes its money by charging service fees to the hosts and guests who use its rental booking site. This short-term rental service, popular with vacationers, boasts that two million people in …
Entering “mail-order brides” into any search engine results in a minimum of a half-million entries. The introduction of the internet to the mail-order bride industry created an explosion of supply and demand for women, making it easier for international marriage brokers to reach more people and cheaper to facilitate sales since they don’t need to use paper catalogs. Agency owners …
One-sided conversations about sex work are not good On the heels of Teen Vogue’s 26 April 2019 editorial entitled “Why Sex Work is Real Work”, we found a description of Teen Vogue’s purpose. “Teen Vogue is the young person’s guide to saving the world. We aim to educate, enlighten and empower our audience to create a more inclusive environment (both …
In the past two years, bright lights have been shone on big names such as Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein, and Larry Nassar, pointing out their continuous predation. Beyond the shock of these tragedies, people have responded with confusion as to how these horrifying acts can continue to occur in such established industries. The modeling industry is no exception While media …
Back to school means new classrooms, new friends, and new activities. As kids start a school year, they gain more independence and have opportunities to try new things. These same positive aspects of growing up are also opportunities for sex traffickers to find and manipulate young people. Back to school is an ideal time for parents to sharpen their awareness …
On July 30, 2019, The National Human Trafficking Hotline published a summary of its 2018 statistics detailing the number of cases, the prevalence of different types of trafficking, and crucial demographics regarding trafficking. The data demonstrated many changes from the previous year while confirming some of our previous notions about the horrific crime. The report found that the number of …
Human Trafficking: It’s Not Just For Women and Children It’s not too difficult to conjure up images of women and young children being manipulated and subjected to human trafficking at home and abroad. Human trafficking is, however, not a women’s issue. Nor is it a children’s issue. Males also face the reality of being trafficked, yet they are vastly underrepresented …
Press Release “I was trafficked for three years starting when I was 14 years old. He trafficked me for three years, the whole time I was going to school and living at home. But no one ever helped me; no one ever asked me what was going on. If someone had cared enough to just ask me, maybe I would …
This blog post has been written in collaboration with The Fauquier Bank. It doesn’t always seem like a bank should be involved in detecting and reporting on non-financial crimes against their customers. Crimes against the customer’s debit cards, sure! An attempt to forge a check against their account? Absolutely. But would a bank be looking out for burglary? Well, in …
McLean, Virginia (July 29, 2019) – The Just Ask Trafficking Prevention Foundation will launch a new community partnership initiative known as the Just Ask Champion program on July 30, 2019. “We developed our monthly donor campaign called Just Ask Champion as a way for people to be able to engage in a more meaningful and consistent way with us,” said Jacquelin Pinilla, …
