As I type this, my city is on complete shut-down. The southern United States simply doesn’t know how to function when it gets below forty degrees, and Lafayette, Louisiana actually closes for days at a time in the few cases when it ventures below freezing. This winter has been an anomaly, however: three snows in … Continue reading 200 Million Girls
Defeating Supply and Demand
Commodity: a material or product that that has value and can be bought or sold. It can be inspiring and uplifting to think of our involvement in seeing people rescued from sex trafficking. Unfortunately, we have to consider some ugly truths if we truly want to see this injustice end. Warning: the facts below some may … Continue reading Defeating Supply and Demand
How to Recognize a Trafficking Victim
The issue of sex trafficking has become famous over the past few years. You may have seen the movie Taken or heard of trafficking through SVU or other TV shows, or maybe you’ve come across real-life news stories that describe the gruesome details of trafficking. So what is it? Sex trafficking is the forced participation in … Continue reading How to Recognize a Trafficking Victim
