Human Trafficking Awareness

You should check out CPS they've been trafficking kids for years

Thank you for the awareness post :)

Bumping because super important thread.

I don't have too much to add except that at least some of human trafficking would be cut down if we found ways to reduce poverty worldwide -- a non-insignificant amount of human trafficking is because someone in the family unit feels that they have little/no choice but to sell themselves / their family members out so that the rest of the family can survive (that and in cases where the trafficking is more kidnapping than selling, the people most likely to be kidnapped are the people with the least social supports -- children in foster care, sex workers, undocumented immigrants, ect).

Writing this down because I think it's important to point out & keep in mind:

Hey y’all :) thank you all for the replies. As far as site’s profiting from such things trust me there is a big law suit in place and action being taken as we speak. 

Definitely following!

"Half the sky" is a great book talking about this

If you're thinking of moving to the Pacific Northwest, don't. If you don't have a support network already in place, you're going to end up on the street. Refugee or not, there's not enough services to support everyone. Whatever stories you've heard about the Portlandian utopia, you're 15 years too late. Sex trafficking is out of control between the constant flow of run aways and migrants (both internal and international) and the fent crisis. If you are a single woman walking alone, men will assume you're a prostitute. It doesn't matter what you're wearing or doing. I had a guy try to give me money to get in his car at a bus stop when I had multiple bags of groceries. Women go missing all the time, the cops are too overwhelmed to do anything.