Local News
News reports about human trafficking on Cape Cod.
Human Rights Day Celebration
The Barnstable County Human Rights Advisory Commission held its 2025 Human Rights Day Celebration Breakfast in Hyannis.
Lower Cape News Series About Human Trafficking
Lower Cape News series about the hidden crime of human trafficking on Cape Cod; view the video interview featuring Cape Cod PATH and Children's Cove.
3rd Annual Human Trafficking Awareness Event
A Story of Hope with Robin Levasseur, local leaders, and experts
January 31, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Great Awakening Coffee House, Hyannis
Panel at Brewster Ladies’ Library
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
6:30 - 8:00 PM
Keeping Kids Safe From Exploitation & Human Trafficking
Cape Cod is ‘ripe for sex, labor, and domestic trafficking,’ says local survivor advocate
Asia Graves, a human trafficking victim advocate, bustled around the Health Ministry pantry on Nov. 20 to organize food donations. Graves, 35, moved to Cape Cod in 2022 and was impressed by the Hyannis nonprofit, which offers free food, health care clinics, and educational health and wellness classes — and a shower for anyone who needs it, Graves said. "Maybe if I had had access to services like this when I was growing up, I wouldn't have fallen through the cracks," said Graves, who was sex trafficked between the ages of 16 and 18. Graves, who lives in Hyannis, is now a member of the Barnstable Housing Committee and advocates for affordable housing on the Cape. Vulnerabilities such as a lack of affordable housing, food insecurity, poverty, family instability, physical and sexual abuse and trauma can all lead to human trafficking, she said, "even on Cape Cod."
Human Trafficking: Making the Invisible Visible
Cape Cod PATH in collaboration with the Office for Victims of Crime Mashpee Wampanoag Police
January 10, 2024 from 6:30 - 8 PM
Mashpee Red Chair Project
Kaia Holmes, a senior at Mashpee High School has chosen, as her senior project, to implement the Red Chair Project in the Mashpee Community.
An Event for National Human Trafficking Awareness Month featuring Jasmine Grace
January 17, 2023 at 5:30 PM
Great Awakening Coffee House, 20 Independence Dr. Unit B
Hyannis, MA 02601
A Special Event for Human Trafficking Awareness Month
Join Cape Cod PATH (People Against Trafficking Humans) to hear the story of Jasmine Grace, a survivor of sex trafficking and author of “The Diary of Jasmine Grace: Trafficked, Recovered, Redeemed”.
Sunday, January 9, 2022
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Virtual book talk by Deborah Swiss, author of “The Tin Ticket”
Join Cape Cod PATH for a fascinating virtual book talk by Deborah Swiss, author of The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia’s Convict Women, a true story about 25,000 desperately poor women who were labor trafficked in the 19th century and later became the founding mothers of modern Australia.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18TH 7:00 PM
REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArdOCpqzwsHNCnAfHwPkdedKbi1zIyniMJ
PATH Works To Combat Human Trafficking On Cape Cod
The Cape Cod Chronicle • By Digney Fignus
January begins the year with Human Trafficking Awareness Month. Cape Cod PATH (People Against Trafficking Humans), a non-profit under the umbrella of the Cape Cod Foundation, is a task force on the frontline in addressing this pervasive human rights issue.
Virtual Candlelight Vigil for Human Trafficking Awareness Month
Virtual Vigil via Zoom: Register in advance for this webinar
Date: Sunday, January 10, 2021 Time: 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. All are welcome.Learn more >