Read “Trafficking in Persons Report 2012,” the annual report by the State Department on global human trafficking.

The CNN Freedom Project is behind a one-hour documentary broadcast June 26, 2011, “Nepal’s Stolen Children,” reported and hosted by actress Demi Moore. Moore and her husband, actor Ashton Kutcher, sponsor a foundation to combat child sex slavery.

Read this page, created by the National Conference of State Legislatures, of state laws prohibiting human trafficking and their differences.

On March 3, 2011, the Appignani Bioethics Center, a project of the American Humanist Association, hosted a panel discussion, “Human Trafficking, Exploitation and Abuse of Sex Workers: Suggested Remedies.” It took place during the 55th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York.

The Bay Area Anti-Trafficking Coalition holds annual gatherings focused on building community awareness and mobilization against human trafficking.

Catherine Cornille is a professor of theology at Boston College. Her research interests focus on the Theology of Religions, the theory of Interreligious Dialogue, concrete questions in the Hindu-Christian and Buddhist-Christian dialogues, and the phenomenon of inculturation and intercultural theology. She wrote about Mother Meera in The Graceful Guru: Hindu Female Gurus in India and the United States […]

Carol S. Anderson is an associate professor in the departments of religion and women’s studies at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Mich. She wrote a chapter about Gauri Ma in The Graceful Guru: Hindu Female Gurus in India and the United States.

Katherine K. Young is a professor of Hinduism at McGill University in Montreal. She specializes in comparative ethics between the religions of South India.

Bruce M. Sullivan is a professor of religious studies at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. He is a specialist in Hinduism, Buddhism, and India’s classical Sanskrit literary and theatrical traditions. He teaches a course on the Hindu epics.