Coverage and legal analysis on sex trafficking, including survivor rights, civil litigation, institutional accountability, and claims against individuals or entities that enabled or profited from abuse.
Trafficking survivors have the right to sue their traffickers and the businesses that profited from their exploitation. This guide walks through the civil lawsuit process under the TVPA — from evaluating your case to what compensation looks like.
Trafficking survivors are often arrested for crimes committed under the control of their traffickers — prostitution, drug offenses, theft. Vacatur laws allow survivors to clear these records and rebuild their lives. A new federal law and expanding state protections are opening doors.
Technology platforms — social media, messaging apps, classified ad sites — are primary tools for recruiting and exploiting trafficking survivors. Federal law now allows survivors to sue these platforms. Here's how the legal landscape is evolving.
Hotels are the most common venue for sex trafficking. When staff ignores the signs and the hotel profits from trafficking, federal law gives survivors the right to sue. Landmark verdicts are reshaping the hospitality industry.
The Trafficking Victims Protection Act gives survivors powerful legal tools — including the right to sue traffickers and the businesses that profit from trafficking, mandatory attorney fees, and immigration relief through the T-Visa. Here's what you need to know about your rights.
After deliberating for five days in December, a federal jury found British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell guilty of facilitating American financier Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of underage girls. The verdict came
Contrary to the belief among certain conspiracy theorists that President Donald Trump is battling a massive ring of child sex traffickers, the administration is prosecuting significantly fewer child sex traffickers
