January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month. Do you know the warning signs? As you read this, millions of women, men and children around the world are subject to being trafficked. To address this evil injustice, it helps to define and know exactly what it is. The federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act defines human trafficking as: The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a […]
When Difficult News is the Most Important News
Sometimes the most important news is the most difficult to hear. On the same day that Shared Hope International celebrated the release of our 9th annual Protected Innocence Challenge report cards, we heard that the Kansas Prisoner Review Board had decided not to recommend Hope Zeferjohn, a child sex trafficking victim, for a pardon. After […]
Shared Hope Attends: Women of Color Against the Sex Trade
Shared Hope had the opportunity to attend SPACE International’s Women of Color Against the Sex Trade panel discussions co-hosted last week by Coalition Against Trafficking in Women and the Roosevelt House’s Human Rights program in New York and by Rights4Girls in Washington D.C. Tuesday, December 3, 2019, New York City – Brittany Peck, CEM, Training […]
States’ Laws Say “Kids Are Not Prostitutes.” So Why Are They Still Being Punished?
During the 2019 legislative session, nine states passed[1] critical legal reform measures to protect child sex trafficking victims from being prosecuted for prostitution, commonly referred to as “Safe Harbor” laws. However, as first pointed out in 2017, not all “Safe Harbor” laws actually insulate child sex trafficking victims from a punitive response for engaging in […]
Shared Hope Attends: New Yorkers for the Equality Model Campaign Launch
On Monday, I had the privilege of attending the New Yorkers for the Equality Model Campaign Launch hosted by The Survivor Leaders of New Yorkers for the Equality Model. New Yorkers for the Equality Model is a, “survivor-led alliance made up of more than 30 advocates, prostitution and sex trafficking survivors, and organizational partners seeking […]