SMU Student Alliance to host Red Sand Project
SMU’s Student Alliance Against Human Trafficking continues to spread awareness about this turbulent problem.
Category: Sex Trafficking in North Texas
This is a series in a special project on sex trafficking in North Texas from an SMU Division of Journalism course titled Human Rights and the Journalist. The class is taught by Michele Houston.
How the Aviation Industry is Responding to Sex Trafficking
“It’s just like a drug cartel, this is a trafficking cartel. But, unlike drugs you can sell that girl over and over and over again.”
A Major Newspaper Joins The Fight Against Sex Trafficking
Brenden Miniter of The Dallas Morning News: “My theory of change was that we’re not elected officials so we can’t change the law, but we can inform the public.”
Who is Fueling the Sex Trafficking Demand in Dallas? The Man Next Door
His family, neighbors, and coworkers think he’s a “great guy.” What they don’t know is, John uses social networking apps to pay for underage girls that are available during hs lunch break.
How The Hotel Industry Is Responding to Sex Trafficking
A hotel for many is a place to stay on vacation, whether that be a family trip, luxurious getaway, or stop along the way. But how much do you really know about what is going on behind the closed doors in hotels across the country?
Hope from ‘Heroin Hill’
Sex trafficking and drug abuse combine to take a horrible human toll on women and the homeless
From Desperation, a Life Transformed
Karen Green: “I can identify with the pain, the mindset, the rejection, the abandonment.”
Are You a Square?
Why you should know sex trafficking lingo and how you can spot and help victims.
Gail Turner, “Everyone Wants Out”
Three Dallas women founded New Friends New Life, a non-profit working to illuminate the darkness of sex trafficking in Dallas.