by Natalie Gidney | Nov 18, 2024 | Countering Human Trafficking & Gender-Based Violence, Philippines, Protection
Restorying Hope Nestled in the western part of the Pacific Ocean, in Southeast Asia is a group of islands called The Philippines. If you do an online search, you will find pictures of stunning beaches, mountains, and scenery. But there is something sinister happening...
by Natalie Gidney | Jul 28, 2024 | Acting in Faith, Countering Human Trafficking & Gender-Based Violence, Protection
Standing Against Human Trafficking Slavery is an evil that continues to plague our world. Data gathered from 155 countries shows that the most common form of human trafficking is sexual exploitation accounting for 79% of all reported trafficking cases and another 18%...
by Natalie Gidney | Mar 25, 2024 | Countering Human Trafficking & Gender-Based Violence, Sierra Leone
Slavery is Not Just a Historical Issue Taking someone from their home and forcing them to do anything for profit. Trafficking in persons. Slavery. Evil. An abomination. This should never happen. Yet as recently as 2021, it is estimated that 50 million people are still...
by Guest Author | Nov 30, 2023 | Countering Human Trafficking & Gender-Based Violence, Protection
Helping Trafficking Survivors Heal and Hope Again The family unit is typically thought of as a source of strength and stability, a protective place where children thrive and where our very identity is formed at an early age. That is why betrayal by a family member,...
by Guest Author | Aug 9, 2023 | Countering Human Trafficking & Gender-Based Violence
Combating the Evils of Organ Harvesting Many of us enjoy basic rights and liberties that we simply take as a given—the right to defend our families, freedom of expression, the right to pursue happiness, freedom of religion, and perhaps the most basic of all human...
by Haley Clark | Jan 11, 2023 | Countering Human Trafficking & Gender-Based Violence, Protection
Adult Survivors of Human Trafficking: Their Truth, Their Healing and Their Hope Traffickers prey upon vulnerability; this is true of female, male and child survivors, and it happens across the globe. In West Africa, we work with adult survivors of trafficking. On...