Karyne Martins Araujo | Contributing Writer Human Rights Law Association and the Community Police Relations Foundation hosted at a Human Trafficking Crisis Panel to educate students on the prevalence of human trafficking and child exploitation in the United States. The event aimed not only to raise awareness on the topic but also to empower the […]
Paloma Pimentel | Contributing Writer In commemoration of National Human Trafficking prevention month, the Office of Social Justice and Inclusion at FIU collaborated with the Women’s Center to host a panel discussing modern slavery and human trafficking. The Jan. 24 discussion was led by Jessica Barriel, a law enforcement detective with the Miami Dade Police […]
Maya Washburn / Staff Writer Miami is the third city in the nation with the most human trafficking presence, according to Glory House of Miami, a nonprofit for victims of sex trafficking. FIU’s United Nations Women student organization is bringing awareness to this issue. Last week on March 18, the group organized a lecture focusing […]
By: Jordan Coll / Assistant News Director “All of you live here in this world, we live in an underground world that you can’t even begin to fathom,” said a victim of human trafficking to Sambra Zaoui, former FIU alumni and assistant professor of social work at Barry University who spoke on the matters dealing […]
Emily Sol/Contributing Writer Between the years of 2011 and 2015, the National Human Trafficking Hotline received over 240 calls from either transgender or gender non-conforming individuals. During that same time frame, the National Human Trafficking Resource Center also responded to over 300 cases of human trafficking involving the LGBTQ community. Of the 304 cases reported, […]
Samantha Garcia/Staff Writer The Super Bowl is an annual hallmark of American culture, bringing people from all cultures, backgrounds and socio-economic perspectives together to share their passion for sports. However, this event also serves to remind us of the crime and problems within our society. The business of human trafficking is the practice of illegally […]
