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 […]
JuST Response Policy Paper
Eliminating the Third Party Control Barrier to Identifying Juvenile Sex Trafficking Victims This paper evaluates the fundamental importance of defining sex trafficking to include all instances of commercial sexual exploitation of minors. Beyond the question of whether force, fraud or coercion was used by the offender, this discussion addresses the impact of requiring that a [...]
JuST Response State System Mapping Report Release
About this video Full video of the release of the JuST Response State System Mapping Report on March 4th, 2015. The JuST Response is a trauma informed, individualized, survivor informed and evidence-based research project. It serves to deepen knowledge of the interrelationship of statutes, systems and services in developing state level responses to juvenile sex [...]
