01-24 Tennessee Bill Could Require Anti-Human Trafficking Training for Tattoo Artists

A new Tennessee bill could require tattoo artists to get training on recognizing the signs of human trafficking and responding to them. Tattoos are among the tools traffickers use to assert control over their victims using symbols, names or phrases that brand a person as property, according to Thistle Farms, a Tennessee nonprofit group that […]

01-18 The Warriors Support and Applaud Senator Ted Cruz and Senator Amy Klobuchar for Reintroducing the TAKE IT DOWN Act

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In one of his first moves as the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) joined Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) in reintroducing the bipartisan, bicameral TAKE IT DOWN Act. The legislation would criminalize the publication of non-consensual, sexually exploitative images—including AI-generated deepfakes—and require platforms […]

01-16 Why Aren’t We Talking About This? 1-in-20 Sex Trafficking Victims are Boys.

Overlooked for Too Long: Boys and Human Trafficking. Boys represent the fastest-growing segment of identified human trafficking victims. UNODC’s 2022Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, released in January 2023, notes that the percentage of boys identified as victims of human trafficking more than quintupled between 2004 and 2020—a much larger increase than for men, women, […]