#ENDSLAVERY – Tweet your Senators to Co-Sponsor Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act

The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), introduced in 2000, greatly increased America’s efforts to protect victims, assist survivors, improve prevention methods and successfully prosecute traffickers. Even though the TVPA has been reauthorized three times by bipartisan majorities, it was allowed to expire in September of 2011.

To help move this [...]

By Johanna Olivas on 23rd April 2012 | Tags: , , , | Category: Activism, Author: Johanna Olivas, Human Trafficking Initiatives | 23 comments

Tenacious Advocacy

Collaborative Effort Urges West Virginia to become the 49th State to Criminalize Human Trafficking

In the summer of 2011, Polaris Project’s Policy Team reflected on a year of great accomplishment after helping pass 17 new anti-human trafficking laws across the country, including criminalizing human trafficking offenses for the first time [...]

By James L. Dold, J.D. on 22nd March 2012 | Tags: , , | Category: Activism, Author: James L. Dold | 2 comments

Can you walk away?

“Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it, in his love of justice,” President Lincoln said in an 1854 speech. This weekend, President Lincoln’s Cottage has partnered with Polaris Project to launch an exhibit that will open people’s eyes to the realities of modern slavery and human [...]

By Public Outreach and Communications Dept. Fellow on 17th February 2012 | Tags: , | Category: Activism, Human Trafficking in the U.S., Human Trafficking Initiatives | 2 comments

A picture is worth a thousand words

On National Human Trafficking Awareness Day, January 11th, Polaris Project launched a month-long campaign to raise awareness about trafficking through photographs. We asked you to make a sign and tell the world that you want to take a stand against human trafficking. We received pictures from church groups, swim teams, artists and many others [...]

By Public Outreach and Communications Dept. Fellow on 15th February 2012 | Tags: , , | Category: Activism, Authors: Fellows | 5 comments
 
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