Holding Online Facilitators Accountable: Campaign Targeted at Backpage.com

Posted by: Clare on 2/24/2012 | 0 Comments
Recent media coverage has identified more and more cases of sex trafficking across America where young girls are being sold for sex on Village Voice Media owned website Backpage.com. Traffickers pay for ad space on Backpage.com’s adult section, often posting pictures of minors advertised for commercial sex on the site. Backpage.com profits from these advertisements, making them by definition a facilitator for domestic minor sex trafficking. Shared Hope International is leading a national campaign inviting mayors across the nation to join our efforts to encourage Village Voice Media to eliminate child sex trafficking on Backpage.com.
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WA Senate Passes New Bill to Fight Child Sex Trafficking

Posted by: Clare on 2/10/2012 | 0 Comments
The Washington state Senate unanimously passed a raft of Protected Innocence bills targeted at tightening the state laws against child sex trafficking, including the pioneering SB 6251, aimed at stopping the online facilitation of child sex trafficking. The bill sponsored by Seattle Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles (D-WA) establishes a new crime of advertising commercial sexual abuse of a minor in Washington.
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Washington State: Taking a lead in combatting the online facilitation of child sex trafficking

Posted by: Clare on 1/27/2012 | 0 Comments
Backpage.com has been on the hot seat for months as policy makers, faith leaders, and advocates have intensified their efforts to hold the online advertising site, owned by Village Voice Media, accountable for its documented facilitation of child sex trafficking through online advertisement. Online facilitators have largely avoided liability as serious crackdowns on sex trafficking have hit the nation; however, today Washington state is taking a lead in the effort to combat online facilitation of commercial sexual abuse of children.
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“We doin’ big pimpin, spending G’s…”: Why is this Crime Glamorized?

Posted by: Taryn on 10/27/2010 | 0 Comments
The pimp culture doesn’t achieve all of its glorification just from Hip-Hop charts in the music world; the message is pervasive. From books to movies and video games, there is a never-ending list of media promoting the “ghetto-fab” lifestyle.  The reality is that pimping today is attractive and immensely profitable.
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Hearing on the Hill: Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking

Posted by: Taryn on 9/22/2010 | 0 Comments
Congressman Poe speaks on the first panelThis hearing showed that progress has been made.  There are some powerful champions in Congress who are taking steps to address domestic minor sex trafficking.
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Craig – The Most Successful Pimp in the World

Posted by: Taryn on 8/17/2010 | 0 Comments
Shared Hope International founder, Linda Smith poses some interesting discussions about an internet service we all know and use. Craigslist is the giant in the nascent online classifieds industry. Ever the opportunists, child predators have spotted the potential of Craigslist’s “adult services” page and the website has become a bustling marketplace for the buying and selling of our kids for sex.
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Senate proposes legislation to address sex trafficking of American youth

Posted by: Taryn on 3/22/2010 | 0 Comments
In our own backyard, children are prostituted on main streets across America.  Instead of shying away from the uncomfortable reality that over 100,000 U.S. children are prostituted every year within U.S. borders, the Senate has instead proposed legislation to address this troubling reality.
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What’s Wrong with Calling a Child a Prostitute?

Posted by: Taryn on 1/7/2010 | 0 Comments
A child cannot be a prostitute because she/he is a victim of commercial sexual exploitation and the federal law defines this child as a victim of sex trafficking.  The difference in language is critical if we are to make progress in national efforts to rescue and restore child victims of sex trafficking.
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