EXPOSÉS / HUMAN RIGHTS

LATEST

HUMAN RIGHTS

National Human Trafficking Prevention Month Calls Attention to Horrors of Sexual Exploitation

Undercover operatives work tirelessly to break up forced labor and sex trafficking networks, confronting “things that cannot be unseen.”

HUMAN RIGHTS

Reuters OnlyFans Investigation Uncovers Porn, Rape and Slavery  

OnlyFans claims they prohibit illegal content and moderate what gets posted on their site. The evidence tells a different story.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Slavery Up 25 Percent in Three Years, as the Exploitation Epidemic Grows

For sexual exploitation or forced labor, slavery continues—not only unabated, but growing to as many as 65 million victims worldwide.

HUMAN RIGHTS

New $215 Million Victims Fund Will Help Survivors Sex Trafficked on Backpage

The owners were jailed and the website assets confiscated, but the role of Tony Ortega—Backpage’s notorious sex trafficking champion—remains to be fully explored.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Greek Sex Trafficking Ring Dismantled—But It’s a Drop in the Bucket

Over and over, sex trafficking and blackmail rings traffic women to centrally located Greece for forced prostitution and other sexual exploitation. Why isn’t the government doing more?

HUMAN RIGHTS

We Needed a Vote to Abolish Slavery. On the Resolution’s 75th Anniversary, It’s Skyrocketed Instead.

The United Nations passed an anti-slavery resolution on December 2 in 1949. Since then, humans owned by others have skyrocketed to 50 million worldwide. What will it take to stop this scourge?

HUMAN RIGHTS

USCIRF Releases Report on Worldwide Oppression of Jehovah’s Witnesses

From the deprivation of rights to imprisonment, heavy fines, harassment, unemployment, disruption of religious services, forced labor and torture, Jehovah’s Witnesses too often pay a terrible price for their peaceful beliefs.

HUMAN RIGHTS

United States Scores a Miserable “D” for Human Rights Record

University of Rhode Island’s Global RIghts Project ranked 195 countries; 62 percent failed outright, and only 20 percent scored an "A" or "B." Global respect for people’s fundamental rights is in decline.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Scottish Police Smash Thai Sex Trafficking Ring

Couple trafficked Thai women to Scotland, burdened them with huge debt and forced them into prostitution to “pay it back.” The perpetrators face years in prison. 

HUMAN RIGHTS

Largest-Ever Operation Against Human Trafficking Demonstrates International Cooperation

Operation Liberterra II rescued 3,222 potential human trafficking victims and netted 2,517 arrests as a result of monitoring nearly 24,000 flights.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Arizona Voters Pass Measure Mandating Life Sentences for Child Sex Traffickers

A new law sends “a clear message that Arizona will not tolerate child sex trafficking.” But will it effectively deter the crime?

HUMAN RIGHTS

UN Approves “Study” on Effects of Nuclear War

The real question is: Why study a topic with a conclusion well known to almost every person on Earth? 

FROM THE MAGAZINE

NATION

Bring Them Home

Innovative, community-based programs aimed at ending homelessness among veterans are not only meeting, but exceeding their goals.

NATION

Unreported Casualties

We see the staggering numbers, and yet somehow they don’t shock us nearly as much as they should.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Baltimore’s Dilemma

There was nothing about Freddie Gray that was considered particularly remarkable before his life was cut woefully short at 25 this past spring…