Victor Boutros and John Richmond

Victor Boutros and John Richmond are the Founding Directors of the Human Trafficking Institute. They previously served as federal prosecutors in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit and trained law enforcement from different parts of the world on investigating and prosecuting human trafficking. Boutros is co-author with Gary Haugen of The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence (Oxford Press), for which they received the Grawemeyer Prize for Ideas Impacting World Order. Richmond has served as a human trafficking expert for the United Nations and the European Union and been named one of the “Prosecutors of the Year” by the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation.

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The World Day Against Trafficking in Persons

The World Day Against Trafficking in Persons

July 30th marked the UN’s fourth annual World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, which seeks to increase awareness of human trafficking as a serious crime and human rights violation. Traffickers make money by exploiting others, often ...
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