Backpage.com is a classified advertising website which is frequently used by potential traffickers to post advertisements for commercial sex with potential victims of trafficking. The National Human Trafficking Hotline has received a number of reports of forced commercial sex where the advertisement of these services was facilitated on Backpage.com.

This is not a comprehensive report on the scale or scope of human trafficking related to Backpage.com. It represents only calls and cases made to the National Hotline from January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2016.

National Hotline Calls and Cases Referencing Backpage.com - National Human Trafficking Hotline, 2018 DOWNLOAD

post

page

attachment

revision

nav_menu_item

custom_css

customize_changeset

oembed_cache

user_request

wp_block

wp_template

wp_template_part

wp_global_styles

wp_navigation

wp_font_family

wp_font_face

acf-taxonomy

acf-post-type

acf-field-group

acf-field

ai1ec_event

exactmetrics_note

Special Issue – Migration, Sexuality, and Gender Identity
Publications

This special issue of Anti-Trafficking Review bridges the fields of queer and transgender studies, migration studies, research on sex work, and critiques of the discourse on human trafficking. Along with centring LGBTQI+ subjects as actors within th...Read More

TAGS: Global
Human trafficking committed abroad
Publications

Switzerland likes to be the exception. Unfortunately, this is also the case when it comes to the direct application of the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention. Whereas the Convention states clearly that the access to support services must ...Read More

Promoting Responsible Recovery: Detecting, Mitigating, and Remediating Modern Slavery in Supply Chains Session 2
PublicationsWebinars

This briefing forms part of a broader five session series of webinars standing to tackle contemporary issues impacting modern slavery in supply chains, calling for candid discussion and pragmatic solutions. Workers themselves know better than any...Read More

Use of New Technologies for Consistent and Proactive Screening of Vulnerable Populations
Publications

The decreasing cost of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) and increasing mainstreaming of new technologies have resulted in wider application of digital tools to address global problems such as human trafficking and forced labour. Th...Read More