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2019 Visit to new Village of Hope in IndiaBy Nancy Winston, Vice President, Shared Hope InternationalEach year at this time the TIP report lands with a thud.  The huge undertaking by the U.S. Department of State to define the state of human trafficking world wide...

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...

By Matthew Quandt, Legal FellowToday, the...

We are excited to announce that we have invited Russell and Myra Strand to join us again on the JuST Conference plenary stage, this time as our Opening Keynote!Russell and Myra will be presenting, An Intersectional Response to Victims from Marginalized Communities on Tuesday, October 15 at this year's...

By: Ambassador Bridget CrawfordYou ever had a little person, maybe your own child pulling on your clothing in an attempt to get your attention? Or maybe they put their small innocent hand inside of yours, prompting you to follow? That familiar tug is what I felt when I began...

We are celebrating! Legislative sessions are wrapping up in states around the country and we have great news. Many of the bills you advocated for have passed:Utah HB 20 comprehensively strengthens the state's response to child sex trafficking. Utah HB 108 strengthens the state's existing non-criminalization laws to ensure...

In February, Kansas Judge Michael Gibbens came under fire in national news for claiming that two girls, ages 13 and 14, acted as “aggressors” in a situation of exploitation in which a 67-year-old male, Eugene Soden, paid them to have sex. While public reaction to Gibbens ruling was...

She had an idea, and followed it! You start with your first invitation, and someone in the audience asks you to come to their group, and someone there asks you to their school, and the ripples multiply until you have to build a local team of Ambassadors to keep up!As...

        Joint Statement by Shared Hope International and Center for Combating Human Trafficking on Sentencing by Kansas Judge Michael Gibbens Under Federal and Kansas state law, persons who purchase sex from minors commit child sex trafficking; in fact, Kansas law specifically criminalizes such conduct as “Aggravated Human Trafficking.”...