Human Trafficking: The Role of Healthcare Providers in Stopping Modern-Day Slavery

Join us for a training for healthcare workers (CEU’s will be offered).
Friday, November 6, 2009
Registration: 8:00am
Program: 8:45am – 4:00pm
Location
Johnston Medical Mall
514 N. Brightleaf Blvd.
Smithfield, NC 27277
Directions and parking information will be mailed with your confirmation letter.
Program Description
Human trafficking, also called modern-day slavery, is now considered the second largest and fastest growing criminal industry in the [...]

Child Sex Trade in America

Are there really children in America sold into sex slavery?
Come find out more about domestic minor sex trafficking in the USA on
November 20th, 2009. At 6:30pm on the UNC-Greensboro campus we will be screening the documentary “Playground” which addresses the child sex trade in America. Immediately following we will have an expert panel discussion about [...]

October is Fair Trade Month!

This is a time to understand that the items we purchase every day can impact the global slave trade. That’s a huge thought.
But think about it: if we bought only products that we knew were made by folks who were paid a fair wage, then the companies that exploit people and use slave labor would [...]

Nicholas Kristof: Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
September 17, 2009 – 7:30 PM
Duke University, Page Auditorium

New York Times columnist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof will speak at Duke University about gender inequality in the developing world, the subject of his newly published book, “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for [...]

Sex Trafficking Mini-Symposium at UNC-Chapel Hill (9/14)

Sex Trafficking Mini-Symposium
Monday, September 14
2:00 – 5:00 pm
Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building Auditorium, Room 136
UNC-Chapel Hill Campus
Human trafficking—for the purposes of labor and especially sexual exploitation—is a major problem both globally and locally. The newly-formed Working Group for Research on (Sex) Trafficking is an interdisciplinary network of researchers from Triangle-area institutions dedicated to shedding light on this human [...]

Anti-trafficking walks across NC

There will be a series of anti-trafficking walks throughout NC at the end of September. Check below for the location closest you:

September 26 at 10 am in Greensboro (Oak Ridge): Greensboro@SCTNow.org
September 26 or 27 in Charlotte (location TBA): Charlotte@SCTNow.org
September 27 at 2pm in Chapel Hill (UNC Campus-Forest Theater): Raleigh@SCTNow.org
September 27 at 2pm in Cary (Wake [...]

Service Provider Training in JULY (Greensboro, High Point, Winston-Salem)

Triad Ladder of Hope, together with the Salvation Army, are hosting a 3 city training in July (Winston-Salem, Greensboro and High Point). This training is designed to educate Service Providers on the issue of Human Trafficking, how to identify victims and what to do when they are identified. Presenting the trainings are Lisa Thompson, National [...]

Community Forum in Concord, NC on June 11 (RSVP by June 4)

You are invited to a Community Forum: “STOP Human Trafficking”
Event: Community Forum to Foster Action
Focus: Awareness and Action
Date: Thursday, June 11, 2009
Time: 9:00 a.m. until 3:30 [...]

Invitation, June 2, Community Forum

Soroptimist International of Raleigh, NC Community Forum Series:
“STOP Human Trafficking”
Event: Interactive Community Forum to Foster Action
Focus: Community Response
Date: [...]

Human Trafficking Meeting in Greenville

Human Trafficking is one of the largest growing businesses in the world.
This is not just a problem in other countries, it happens right here in the United States! Right here in North Carolina!
And possibly right here in Pitt County.
The Pitt County Sheriff’s Department has received a federal grant to assess the depth of the problem [...]