Human Trafficking & Human Rights

CenHTRO’s programs in Sierra Leone tripled the number of survivors identified and served. Nearly 2,000 government officials, judiciary and law enforcement members, and community leaders received training on how to prevent human trafficking. Investigations, arrests and prosecutions of trafficking cases increased. CenHTRO also helped influence national legislation in Sierra Leone and regional policies across West […]

UGA School of Social Work faculty and Ph.D. students will be attending the Council on Social Work Education’s (CSWE) Annual Program Meeting (APM) in Anaheim, CA, from November 10-13th. The yearly conference is the place where social work education professionals collaborate, learn, teach, and grow. This year’s APM theme is “Leading Critical Conversations: Human Rights […]

The Center on Human Trafficking Research & Outreach at the University of Georgia School of Social Work will receive $2.2 million from the U.S. Department of State to expand research on labor trafficking in Southern Africa in the first stage of a long-term project. The new award broadens the work of CenHTRO, which has previously […]

Elyssa Schroeder, a predoctoral fellow with the University of Georgia’s Center on Human Trafficking Research & Outreach is the recipient of a 2022 Fulbright Research Grant. The award enables the School of Social Work doctoral candidate to further her dissertation research on improving outcomes for survivors of child labor trafficking in Sierra Leone. Click HERE to read […]

The University of Georgia has established a new interdisciplinary center to combat human trafficking through research, programming and policy development. The Center on Human Trafficking Research & Outreach will be housed in the School of Social Work, and David Okech, an associate professor at the school, will serve as the center’s first director. This collaborative […]

The State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP) has awarded $4 million to the University of Georgia-based African Programming and Research Initiative to End Slavery (APRIES) to supplement the latter’s international human trafficking research and programming work. The funding is part of the TIP Office’s Program to End Modern Slavery and builds upon […]

by James Hataway | May 18, 2020 The University of Georgia and the U.S. Department of State will co-host the Prevalence Reduction Innovation Forum, a virtual gathering of leaders, researchers and policy experts from around the world dedicated to the fight against human trafficking. The event will be held May 20, and registration is free. […]

by Laurie Anderson | November 19, 2019 The University of Georgia has been selected to receive $15.75 million from the U.S. Department of State to expand programming and research to measurably reduce human trafficking. The new award, funded by the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP Office), will scale up […]

The 13 men were promised jobs, food and lodging. Instead, they were paid little or nothing, housed in deplorable conditions and provided scant food. If they complained or spoke of leaving, their employer threatened to have them deported. The incident happened in Georgia in 2018. In July 2019 the men—guest agricultural workers on H-2A temporary work […]