Last week, a colleague shared a story by Kieran Guilbert (for Reuters) about Costa Rica becoming the 47th nation to back a 2014 pact of a UN Treaty to combat forced labor. (See: Costa Rica Backs U.N. Treaty to Combat...Read More

By Maribel Rivera Human trafficking thrives on chaos and desperation in communities already ravaged by situations including addiction and poverty. While we do not – and cannot – know exactly what the long term affects of the global pandemic are...Read More

Over the last few weeks, we have been grappling with the senseless and horrific killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and most recently Rayshard Brooks, as well as the 911 calls to the police about people of color...Read More