Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Traffick Jam, a Mercer University student-organization, has been working to drive out sex trafficking in Macon since 2015. Since ...

A Stanford team used geospatial data and detection algorithms to achieve a tenfold increase in rescues from modern slavery in ...

One of the latest trends in data science is driving an initiative to combat a significant challenge: human trafficking. Researchers at Stanford University are weaving together the threads of ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) introduced the National Human Trafficking Database Act. That act would establish a national human ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

The vast majority of people charged with human trafficking in this country are U.S. citizens, according to the Department of Justice. In 2023, U.S. citizens accounted for 96 percent of people charged ...

700,000+ victims in Florida (500K labor, 200K sex trafficking); minors account for 50% of sex trafficking and 25% of labor trafficking. Data collected from 30 agencies and 2,500 surveys informs county ...

Commissioned by the state, "The 2024 State Report on Human Trafficking" identifies Florida's heightened risk due to population, tourism, ports and industries, while also showcasing coordinated ...

Most Americans imagine human trafficking as a violent kidnapping or a “stranger danger” crime — someone abducted from a parking lot or trapped in a shipping container brought in from another country.

For Human Trafficking Awareness Month, we explore human trafficking in Arkansas —victims, services, police response. Chris Kane interviews Sgt. Matthew Foster, AR State Police and Rep. Robin Lundstrom ...

Since Texas became one of the first states to criminalize human trafficking in 2003, it has been at the vanguard of anti-trafficking policy. Now, with the introduction of the Texas Human Trafficking ...