NEW Abolitionists

Dr. Holly Atkinson

Clinical Professor, CUNY School of Medicine and Member, American Medical Women’s Association’s “Physicians Against Trafficking in Humans” Task Force
Dr. Holly Atkinson is a leader in the medical community’s efforts to halt human trafficking. A past President of Physicians for Human Rights, she trains health care professionals to identify and intervene on behalf of trafficking victims and is the former director of the Mount Sinai Human Rights Clinic.

“We need each and every health care professional to use the power of their role to help heal the victims and end the scourge of modern-day slavery.”

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“The #MeToo movement must include sexual trafficking, sexual exploitation, and prostitution as core violations because they are the nth degree of abuse, violence, and rape. Prostitution is not a victimless crime or an equivalent exchange; demand creates a giant market which traffickers fill with their human products.”

– Mira Sorvino

“It’s impossible to describe the experience of being owned by someone else, but what I can tell you is that I will work tirelessly for the rest of my life to stop other people from having to experience what I did.”

– Kenya, Trafficking Survivor