Child Trafficking

A blog carnival is a blog entry that pulls together articles on a particular topic. For our January Blog Carnival, we’ve pulled together stories from various World of Children Honorees on the topic of Child Protection. These stories represent a breadth and depth of thinking and on-the-ground intervention that we are incredibly proud to support…

Kalpana from Nepal was lured in under false pretenses and sold to a brothel owner. You helped her rescue and recovery!

The deadly earthquakes in Nepal last spring put the young survivors at risk for another tragedy – the danger of being sold by human traffickers. Nepal has a long history of child exploitation and officials feared a surge in trafficking after the huge earthquakes took more than 9,000 lives and destroyed a half million homes.…

The following piece was written by World of Children Co-Founder Harry Leibowitz as part of our Child Protection Blog Carnival. The Numbers Let’s look at some truly horrifying numbers… 116,000 internet queries each day are related to child pornography. 300,000 or more children in the United States are forced into the commercial sex trade each…

Earlier this month, World of Children announced a new Award category – Child Protection. The new Award was conceived as a way to recognize, fund, and elevate Honoree programs that protect, rescue, and rehabilitate children from abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence. Over the years, we’ve honored many individuals who would fit into this new category…

This post, written by Co-Founder Harry Leibowitz, originally appeared on Huffington Post Impact on January 15, 2016 It’s not my problem… I was recently at a cocktail party where the issue of child trafficking in the United States came up in the course of conversation. “It’s not a problem in our community,” said one person.…

January is Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month in the United States.We’re going to be talking about the issue all month (and beyond!) and hope many others will join us. In addition to nominating a hero for an award, you can help simply by spreading the word on social media. Below are 5 inspirational quotes…

Sumi was orphaned when she was just 6 years old. An older female relative offered to bring Sumi from Bangladesh to India and care for her, but when Sumi arrived in Mumbai the relative sold her to another family as a domestic servant. Though initially the family treated her well, the situation quickly worsened. The…

Hasn’t Nepal been through enough? One of our Honorees in India reports a spike in girls from Nepal who have been trafficked following the Nepal earthquakes.

2011 Honoree Denisse Pichardo is committed to ending the sexual exploitation of youth in the Dominican Republic, empowering them with the skills and support they need to reach their full potential.

On April 30, 2015, we’re honoring 2013 Humanitarian Award Honoree Triveni Acharya at our very first Alumni Honors event for using our funding to rescue more children from brothels in India.

See how your funding helped rescue 171 girls from the horrors of brothels in India.

Eva Chayet writes about her experience visiting 2013 Honoree Triveni Acharya in India, who has rescued more than 4,000 children from brothels.

Get an inside look at the life of 2013 Honoree Triveni Acharya, a fearless activist who is on a mission to end child trafficking in India, no matter what it takes.

Since 2005, 2013 Honoree Triveni Acharya has fearlessly led the way in rescuing more than 4,000 victims of child trafficking in India through her organization, Rescue Foundation. One of those children is 17-year-old Leena who was rescued from a brothel in Delhi in 2010. Read her story.