For more than a decade UN.GIFT Special Advisor for Victims Rani Hong has been an outspoken leader in the fight to end human trafficking, a strong voice for millions of unheard victims. Taken from her family in southern India as a young girl to be enslaved and then sold into...
(0) Comments | Posted April 13, 2012 | 3:08 PM
By Dana Marie Shepherd, on behalf of the Tronie Foundation
As the applause faded, the stage lights rested on four women as they took their seats at a long table, adjusting their microphones, preparing to take questions from a now more-enlightened audience. In the silence before the...
(8) Comments | Posted January 12, 2012 | 1:03 PM
Every day, in every nation on the planet, children are sold and bonded into slavery. Thousands of children. I know, I was one of them.
When I was seven years old, a woman approached my family promising to give me a good education and a better life. My mother...
(12) Comments | Posted June 16, 2010 | 6:04 PM
A mother in Northeast India holds her daughter, her last surviving child. Her first died from malaria, another from untreated newborn jaundice, a third from unknown causes.
This child, 18 months old, suffers from hydrocephalus, an excess fluid collection around the brain. Thus far untreated, it has inhibited her...
(0) Comments | Posted May 21, 2010 | 2:22 PM
Women of Vision, South Puget Sound Chapter, announces registration is now open for a conference on Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery. This is a day-long conference including keynote presentations, breakout sessions, and information booths.
The goal of the conference is to learn...
(0) Comments | Posted April 5, 2010 | 2:07 PM
Please show your support on the issue of human trafficking by voting for Rani Hong to represent Washington state at the National Jefferson Awards in Washington, D.C. Voting is open the week of April 5-9,...
(1) Comments | Posted March 4, 2010 | 2:16 PM
It had been days of travel, heat, humidity, cramped spaces, and heartbreaking stories. Visits to rescue shelters where young boys and girls sought out recovery, learning the practice of life outside of bonded slavery. Though they were living in relative freedom, their childhoods had suffered near-irreparable damage. Once a child...
(0) Comments | Posted January 28, 2010 | 1:10 PM
Haiti has already been a trading ground in the past for traffickers, and the natural calamity is making the situation even worse now. Unicef adviser Jean Luc Legrand has reported that children have gone missing from hospitals, and we have started seeing the first evidence of trafficking. Trafficking networks are...
(0) Comments | Posted October 26, 2009 | 4:28 PM
Every day, in every nation on the planet, thousands of children are sold and bonded into slavery. With an estimated 60-115 million child workers, India is home to the largest number of both working children and child trafficking victims in the world.
Their daily nightmare involves forced and bonded...
(0) Comments | Posted May 23, 2012 | 2:35 PM