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Dear Senator Portman and Senator Blumenthal, A couple of decades ago sex traffickers and buyers conducted their illegal transactions in dark alleys and back streets. Today these criminal transactions have moved online. Although the location has changed, the crime remains the same and so must our response to those who...

Today, the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations held an annual hearing with representatives from the U.S. Department of State to review the 2017 Trafficking in Persons Report. The State Department released the TIP Report on June 27th, where Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called for a “shared...

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) Today the House of Representatives passed HR 2200 the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2017 (TVPRA). This important legislation was sponsored by Representative Chris Smith—author of the original Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000 and the 2016 recipient of Shared Hope's...

In his unabated championship for marginalized people, Representative Chris Smith last week led a human rights effort to highlight human trafficking at the 2017 Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly in Minsk, underscoring why Shared Hope International awarded him our Lifetime Pathbreaker Award in 2016. Congressman Smith is only...

This week we are interviewing Natasha Nascimento, Founder & Executive Director of Redefining Refuge as a part of their graduation from our Partner Grant Program! Read the first and second part of their story and check back later this week for the rest of their story! Q: What was your favorite part about being a Shared...

This week we are interviewing Natasha Nascimento, Founder & Executive Director of Redefining Refuge as a part of their graduation from our Partner Grant Program! Read the first part of their story and check back Wednesday and Friday for more. Today Natashsa shares the ups and downs of starting a safe house....

Every year Shared Hope works in partnership with domestic and international partners, giving them grants to fund their direct service work with survivors and offer them technical support. This year we are graduating 3 organizations from our grant program and want to share with you their journeys! This week we...

Mission 21 shares the story of Andrea, one of the survivors they served during the organization's time in the Shared Hope Partners Program. Read Monday  and Wednesday's post to catch up on the rest of the Mission 21 story as they graduate from our Partners Program! Mission...

Mission 21 shares the story of Tanya, one of the survivors they served during the organization's time in the Shared Hope Partners Program. Read Monday  and Wednesday's post to catch up on the rest of the Mission 21 story as they graduate from our Partners Program! Client...