Meeting Professionals International: Moving Beyond the Front Lines in the Fight to End Human Trafficking
 
 
 

Moving Beyond the Front Lines in the Fight to End Human Trafficking

ECPAT-USA expanding anti-human trafficking training into travel management, corporate travel management, and meeting and events industry.

Last year, ECPAT-USA shared the story of Denise Miracle, an American Airlines Gate Agent who stopped two young girls from Sacramento, California from meeting a man in New York they had only talked to on Instagram. He told them he would help them become models and sent them tickets. Without their parents knowledge both girls headed to the airport. Unknowingly, the girls had one-way tickets that were bought with fraudulent credit cards. Through training and sound mind, Denise prevented trafficking.

Human traffickers use domestic and international airlines to lure or move victims from one place to another.

Read more here.

 
 
Michelle Guelbart