Human Trafficking Search (HTS)

HTS is a global resource database on #humantrafficking & #modernslavery. HTS seeks to raise awareness and help prevent & eliminate human trafficking worldwide.

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So excited to announce we are officially joining hands with @freedomunitedHQ! Read the #PRESSRELEASE to learn more https://t.co/DBbWh7G2EI #StrongerTogether

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New blog post on the importance working together to share lessons learned and charting the path forward in the anti-modern slavery sector by colleague and graduate student in International Management at the American University of Paris Sara Jayne Breuer. Take a look!

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The link between human trafficking and the crisis of Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women and Peoples is often overlooked.

Join us for a critical discussion on the systemic failures that allow this crisis to continue.

March 18
12:00 PM ET

Register here: https://t.co/E03bVbFXyu

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As cities in the US get ready for #worldcup2026 are the focus and the funding going to the right places? @PlayFairATL @WJBF #atlanta https://t.co/T4GW33D7ii

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Advocates warn that Utah’s proposed "homeless campus" resembles internment camps, criminalizing poverty to extract forced labor. The plan exploits loopholes in the 13th Amendment and turns the unhoused into a captive workforce under the guise of care.
https://t.co/cJ1415pWei

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This Halloween, the real ghosts are the exploitation hiding in Mondelēz's cocoa supply chains while they delay transparency.

Tell them: no more hiding the horrors! 👇
https://t.co/9uVPJNRe2x

#Halloween #SupplyChainTransparency #FairChocolate

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A new report reveals the UK’s new “one in, one out” policy is sending modern slavery survivors back to danger. The findings raise major human rights concerns and highlight the risks of deporting survivors of trafficking and people in severe distress.
https://t.co/E5pVMrjtzo

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The US and UK have taken coordinated action against a Cambodia-based crime network accused of running online scamming centers that trap trafficked workers in cyber slavery and steal billions each year.
https://t.co/x1xWjyn2j5

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38 members of the EU Parliament are calling an end to EU funding for Libya’s coast guard, citing overwhelming evidence of human trafficking, shootings, and torture of migrants. Yet, the EU Commission continues to fund the abuse.
https://t.co/uycqBQbAWR

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Survivors of trafficking and domestic violence are suing the Trump administration, accusing ICE of unlawfully detaining and deporting victims protected under federal law. Advocates warn that canceling protections fuels re-trafficking and exploitation.
https://t.co/04Oe7eVAZ2

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Saudi Arabia to end exploitative Kafala system, linked to forced labor and abuse of millions of migrant workers. While the move offers hope, rights groups warn progress depends on enforcement—pointing to Qatar, where similar reforms remain unimplemented.
https://t.co/AAPOj8ongx

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Recent Australian Federal Police data reveals that human trafficking and modern slavery reports, including forced marriage and exit trafficking, have doubled in the last year, lifting Australian human trafficking alerts to an all-time high.
https://t.co/MWgoFdCaA7

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A South Korean student was recently found dead in a car in Cambodia, a suspected victim of forced labor. Tragically, he is just one of the thousands lured to the region and then trapped behind the walls of one of the many cyber-scam compounds.
https://t.co/VkvxPXLnYB

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EU-funded Libyan forces are escalating violent attacks on migrants and rescue workers, revealing EU’s complicity in systemic abuse. Despite mounting evidence of shootings, torture, and forced labor, EU officials continue to back Libya.
https://t.co/90zU7Oauq9

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Over 50 anti-trafficking organizations are suing the Trump administration, accusing it of unlawful censorship that blocks discussion of race, gender, and inequality—key drivers of exploitation, threatening vital services for thousands of survivors.
https://t.co/hWP6NbfpFZ

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🚨Immigration detention is a modern slavery issue

On Anti-Slavery Day, demand that governments treat migrants with dignity and pass laws that protect people on the move—not punish them for seeking safety.
🔗https://t.co/4lSIeUtBQG

#NoOneIsIllegal #AntiSlaveryDay

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In rural Zimbabwe, girls are reclaiming an old tradition to fight child marriage. Once used to prepare girls for marriage, Nhanga—“girls’ bedroom”—has become a safe space for empowerment, education, and independence.
https://t.co/r483DLwD0a

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"This system may have been built on our silence, but our silence has not kept us safe. So, we are sharing our stories." Yesenia Cuello tells her story of exploitation as a child laborer in the tobacco fields of North Carolina.
https://t.co/egakG8lMyx

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The most important takeaway from last week’s publication of the 2025 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report isn’t what’s inside the document, but the circumstances of its release. The future of the report itself is in peril, as is the office that produces it.
https://t.co/F2YusBPEqZ

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A study reveals that even healthy US diets can carry the risk of forced labor. Analysing over 200 foods, researchers traced risks of forced labor across various food supply chains—from fruit farms and nut plantations to slaughterhouses and fishing vessels.
https://t.co/bTTIXDTzPK

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For International Day of the Girl Child, UNA-NY and Freedom United screened UNMUTED: CHILD BRIDES, highlighting forced child marriage in the US and India, followed by a panel discussion that inspired awareness and action.
https://t.co/3C69bKwwyj