Forum on Human Trafficking: A Growing Crime in Virginia Set For Jan. 25 in Falls Church

League of Women Voters, AAUW Host January 25 Forum on Human Trafficking

The problem of human trafficking in Northern Virginia will be the focus of a forum on Sunday January 25, hosted by the League of Women Voters of Falls Church and of Arlington and the Falls Church chapter of the American Association of University of Women.

Worldwide, it is estimated that there are more than 21 million incidents of humans being sold into slavery each year, generating more than $30 billion in illegal revenues. Northern Virginia is considered to be a hub of this criminal enterprise because it is a major metropolitan area with easy access to both Dulles International Airport and the I-95 corridor.

The forum is designed to help citizens better understand the nature and extent of the problem and steps they can take to help combat it. The panel will include Detective Bill Woolf of the Northern Virginia Human Trafficking Task Force, Lee Hopkins of the Tahirih Justice Center, and a representative of Courtney’s House, an organization that serves the needs of children who have been victims of human sex trafficking.

The forum will be held in the Art Room of the Falls Church Community Center, 223 Little Falls Street, from 3 to 4:30 p.m.

For more information about the hosting organizations, go to www.lwvfallschurch.org, www.lwv-arlingtonva.org or fallschurcharea-va.aauw.net.