In 2010, Jezebel, an online site, published "The Sex Trafficking Model Scout" warning about the dangers of deregulated modeling agencies in the U.S.

Given the growing number of modeling agencies that transport underage teenagers from foreign countries into the United States and the growing sex trade of...

According to the Department of Health and Human Services' fact sheet on the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA):

The TVPA ... created new law enforcement tools to strengthen the prosecution and punishment of traffickers, making human trafficking a Federal crime with severe penalties.

For example, if...

In the West Palm Beach Courthouse "a circuit judge Wednesday squashed an attempt by attorneys for Jeffrey Epstein to prevent parties in a civil lawsuit involving the billionaire sex offender from talking to the media. Circuit Judge David Crow denied the motion for a gag order," writes Michele...

Yesterday, Tuesday, May 31st, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell signed a landmark legislation on human trafficking. During the State of Virginia bill signing ceremony at Dulles Airport in Virginia, Governor McDonnell signed bills HB-2190 and HB-1893 proposed by Delegates Timothy Hugo, Vivian Watts and Adam Ebbin. The bills will go into...

According to Friday's NY Post Jeffrey Epstein returned to New York City "making wisecracks about his just-ended jail stint for having sex with an underage girl". "I'm not a sexual predator, I'm an 'offender,' " the Wall Street hedge fund manager told The Post. "It's the difference between...

Jorge Castaneda, a former Foreign Minister of Mexico in 2000-2003 and a wise friend, wrote an analysis recently in which he credits President Obama for leaping into Mexico's drug war at the outset of his administration. According to his analysis, however, President Obama "now faces perils that are...

Greece, Paris, New York, Tuscany, and Brazil share one thing in common: the selling and buying of children for sex. While investigating the disturbing business of child trafficking I have come across many stories -- some more horrific than others. A few of those stories have become reference points for...

On September 30, 2010, at The Great Hall of Cooper Union in New York City, Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, and Claus Biegert, co-founder of the Nuclear Free Future Awards, co-hosted the NFFA award ceremony to honor the prolific work of five inductees: Martin Sheen, Henry Red Cloud, Oleg...

Washington D.C.- A bill to create a grant program to benefit minor victims of sex trafficking will be heard today in Congress. The bill, H.R. 5575 has two main objectives. First, it would authorize large block grants to establish a comprehensive, victim-centered approach to addressing the issue of sex trafficking...

On July 8, 2010, the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW), Prostitution Research and
Education (PRE) plus more than 75 Co-Sponsors including Innocents at Risk, protested Craigslist's "Adult Services Section" at the company's headquarters in San Francisco, California. "When we arrived, Craigslist was literally whitewashing their cyber trafficking by...

After numerous conversations with law enforcement officials I realized that most law enforcement officials at every level of government and across every state, city and county are under the false assumption that some form of movement is required for a predator to be guilty of child sex trafficking. A child...

The federal government became seriously engaged in the fight against human sex trafficking in 2000, with the passage of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA); a federal effort that was and still is focused on the 50,000 (a vastly conservative figure), or more victims who come each year to the...

Washington, D.C. -- According to Congressional estimates, everyday 100,000 children (that is under the age of 17) in the United States are being sold, bartered and bought for sex.

Outside of the enterprising Mexican drug cartels who traffic children for sex into this country -- using the same routes...

In my continuous search for a viable legislative solution to the issue of child trafficking in America I spoke with Patrick A. Trueman, the former Chief of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Criminal Division, U. S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., about the increase of child pornography in...

Washington D.C. -- The hearing on "Human Trafficking: International and National Implications" took place March 25, 2010 in Congress at the Rayburn House. The Commission, which was chaired by U.S. Rep. James P. McGovern (D-Mass.) and U.S. Rep. Frank R. Wolf (R-Va.), promotes, defends and advocates internationally recognized human rights...

On Sunday, March 21, 2010, in the New York Times' "Week in Review section," Thomas L. Friedman, one of my heroes, wrote about the virtues of legal immigration in the U.S. As an example of its success he cited attending the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search dinner award...

Juarez, Mexico. Fifty people were killed in drug-cartel related assassinations, including two American consular employees the weekend of March 12th in Ciudad Juarez. An American newborn baby was left strapped to the back seat of the car while the parents were shot to death. The husband of a second U.S....

Addressing a subcommittee hearing in Washington D.C. on Wednesday, February 24, investigating child trafficking in America, Chicago's Cook County State Attorney Anita Alvarez confirmed that, "some young Chicagoans are practicing "survival sex" and selling their bodies for food, clothing or a safe place to sleep". Doesn't this remind you of...

On February 17, 2010, the last page in the front section of The New York Times reads: "If 12 fully loaded jumbo jets crashed every year, something would be done about it..." Every year more than 2 million children are trafficked world-wide. That number is at best conservative and at...

At long last a step in the right direction! With the heart wrenching crisis in Haiti reaching its apex and human atrocities being plastered across every television screen and front page daily, abducting those vulnerable and defenseless Haitian children was a very dumb idea. Yet again, maybe not... And not...