Perspectives on human trafficking, gender-based violence, child protection, and women's empowerment — written from decades of direct experience.
From being honoured by the United States Secretary of State to a personal acknowledgement from President Barack Obama, recognition was never why I did this work — but I have learned exactly what it is good for.
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A single rescue operation saves the people involved in it. A well-trained officer saves people for the rest of their career. Here is why I have spent as much of my life in classrooms as I have in the field.
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A rescued child who cannot return to school is still, in a very real sense, still vulnerable. That single realisation is why I founded the Giving Hope Foundation.
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From IAWP Coordinator for Region 18 to International Chaplain to 2nd Vice President — serving alongside women police leaders across the globe has reshaped how I think about this work entirely.
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In 2021, I took on a consultancy role developing a Standard Operating Procedure on combating human trafficking for the International Organization for Migration. Here is why that unglamorous document matters more than most rescue headlines.
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I was a young recruit in 1977 with no idea a single rescued child would define the rest of my career. Looking back across INTERPOL Accra, the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit, the Police Academy, and the BNI, here is what nearly five decades actually taught me.
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Domestic violence crosses every class, every education level, every community I have ever worked in. Here is how to recognise it, support someone experiencing it, and report it in a way that keeps them safe.
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As the officer who chaired Ghana's Child Labour Subcommittee on Cocoa, Fishing, Mining and Quarrying, I have seen how exploitative labour hides in plain sight in these industries — and what the national roadmap actually commits the country to.
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No rescue operation succeeds alone, ever. A field-level look at how INTERPOL, the IOM, national police units, and quiet community informants have to move as one — and what happens when they don't.
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I was called into the Ghana Police Service in 1977, when the path for women in uniform was narrow and the doubts were loud. Here is what nearly fifty years since has taught me about why that has to change faster.
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A rescue operation is only the opening chapter. What happens to a survivor in the weeks and months afterward determines whether that rescue truly meant anything.
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Human trafficking rarely looks like the movies. After decades investigating it on the ground, here is what it actually looks like — and what an ordinary citizen can do the moment they suspect it.
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