Many of you have met Brianna… She was just 18 years old, a straight A student with dreams of becoming a nurse, when a trafficker made his move and began to groom her in preparation to sell her into the underworld of commercial sexual exploitation. Through the intervention of a high school friend and his […]
Shared Hope International Attends: OSCE 20th Alliance Against Trafficking in Persons
By: Natalie Assaad The OSCE Office of the Special Representative and Co-Ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings held the 20th OSCE Alliance Conference against Trafficking in Persons this past week from July 20 – 22, 2020. In reflection of the 20th anniversary of the passing of the Palermo protocol, the conference focused on […]
Research to Action Stakeholder Survey
Since 2011, Shared Hope International has been grading state laws related to the commercial sexual exploitation of children under the Protected Innocence Challenge Legislative Framework, which establishes the basic policy principles required to comprehensively address child sex trafficking under six key areas of law: Criminalization of Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking Criminal Provisions Addressing Demand Criminal […]