Travelers Encouraged to Share Hotel Images to Help Stop Traffickers and Rescue Victims
ST. LOUIS – Human traffickers regularly post photographs of their victims posed in hotel rooms for online ads. As COVID-19 restrictions and quarantines continue to lift around the world, one Saint Louis University researcher reminds travelers that …
Michelle Guelbart, director of private sector engagement for ECPAT-USA, detailed some of the signs and ways
You can join the fight against sex trafficking just by uploading a picture.
Nowadays, there isn’t much we can’t do with our cell phones. Modern technology has enabled us to order food, book vacations, call a private driver… and even help rescue victims of sex trafficking.
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Leadership Tomorrow Class 32 wants to make a lasting impact with their class project.
They’ve heard the statistics and stories that describe the reality of human trafficking, even in Grand Island. Now, they want to do something about it.
Every Leadership Tomorrow class has to come up with some type
Hotel rooms across the country are being used as safe havens for human traffickers and their victims. One snap at a time, volunteers are using their …
Online volunteers are helping to track slavery from space. A new crowdsourcing project aims to identify South Asian brick kilns – frequently the site of forced labour – in satellite images.
This data will then be used to train machine learning algorithms to automatically recognize brick kilns in satellite imagery.
Today, July 30, is the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons.
But what is Human Trafficking and why should you care? And what can you do, personally, to help?
Human trafficking is considered to be modern day slavery.
There are an estimated 27 million adults and 13 million children around …
We empower people and organizations with resources, knowledge and networks to help fight sex trafficking.
TraffickCam allows anyone with a smartphone to fight sex trafficking when they travel by uploading photos of hotel rooms to a law enforcement database.
