The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted many lives, particularly for those who are economically or physically vulnerable. And unfortunately, human trafficking remains “big business” in the U.S., as Anjana Rajan, CTO of Polaris, a nonprofit organization that operated the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline for nearly two decades, said during an interview with ZK Research.
Funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, the hotline has supported thousands of at-risk individuals and their families. Polaris has documented more than 65,500 instances of human trafficking and saw a 4,000% increase in direct calls from victims and survivors since 2007.
