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When Freedom Is At Risk, Attack Gradualism By: Ambassador John Cotton Richmond 1

When Freedom is at Risk, Attack Graduali…

People on pedestals disappoint. Consider the epic and esteemed leaders in the fight against the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Thomas Clarkson…
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Initial Lessons from Rwanda about Reconc…

In the hills of Kigali, I learned from current and former officials and community leaders reflecting on how reconciliation is…
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A Reform Lesson on Teddy Roosevelt’s Bir…

Library of Congress Teddy Roosevelt is famous for many reasons: establishing the National Park System, leading the Rough Riders in…
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Human Trafficking Flourishes When Govern…

Where governments fail to constrain corruption, human trafficking flourishes. Traffickers benefit from all types of corruption as they illegally profit…
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How to stop governments from trafficking…

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Illegal Human Trafficking Profits Skyroc…

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New UN Report on Human Traffickers…

The United Nations’ new report reveals that human traffickers’ annual illegal profits exceed the annual profits of Walmart, Visa, Amazon,…
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Declaring things to make them real: 75 y…

Human-Trafficking Report

Reading between the lines of the world’s…

Trafficking Victims

Less than half of 1 percent of human tra…

10 Things To Know About Human Trafficking

10 Things Everyone Should Know About Hum…

The terms “human trafficking,” “trafficking in persons,” and “modern slavery” are umbrella terms that cover a range of criminal conduct.…
Human Trafficking Root Causes

The Root Cause of Human Trafficking is T…

“The Root Cause of Human Trafficking is Traffickers.” Some might wonder, “How can someone make this statement? After all, aren’t…