Ending human trafficking in Colorado demands more than research alone. We must be able to translate those insights to actions, options, interventions, and change mechanisms that will help us combat human exploitation.
For many people experiencing homelessness who are in a trafficking situation, it can be hard to get help. In other cases, traffickers may confiscate documents to maintain control. In other words, housing insecurity is both a cause AND a consequence of trafficking.
Meet Tom Acker, the Co-Founder of Western Slope Against Trafficking (WSAT), a community partnership that supports survivors of human trafficking and raises awareness about this widespread human rights crisis through training and community education.
While a group of immigrant attorneys founded RMIAN in the early 90s to serve low-income men, women, and children in immigration proceedings; today, that mission has expanded to include their Anti-Human Trafficking Project.
Survivors have been a big part of the data design, collection, and analysis of The Colorado Project 2023, our latest research initiative on human trafficking in Colorado. But the anti-trafficking movement has room to grow when it comes to stepping aside for survivor leaders to step in.
The research team at the Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking (LCHT) has been working on The Colorado Project 2023. This is the third iteration report of the current state of human trafficking in Colorado and the best course of action to end this crime.
Explore today’s most pressing challenges in the fight against human trafficking, and what we can do together to address them in our communities.
Migration and labor rights — in the circles we’re a part of, there’s been a lot of conversation about this topic lately. Labor trafficking and exploitation...
Colorado’s 24/7 Human Trafficking Hotline is one of our state’s most important resources when it comes to helping survivors and concerned individuals. In 2022...
January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month, an opportunity to bring attention to this human rights crime that impacts individuals, families, and communities...
At the Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking, we believe that community-based research and data-driven insights are critical in strengthening the movement to...
Human trafficking affects a wide range of individuals in our Colorado communities. Adults and children, foreign-nationals and U.S. citizens, and people of all...
