Legal Frameworks:
The legal framework surrounding the issue of human trafficking in the United States is the Trafficking Victims Violence Prevention Act of 2000 (TVPA). This act divides human trafficking up into two categories: labor trafficking and sex trafficking. Sex trafficking consists of the recruitment, harbor, or transportation of a person with the intention of a commercial activity that is done by force, fraud or coercion. It is trafficking if the person engaging is under eighteen. Labor trafficking is recruitment, harbor, or transportation of a person with the intention of subjecting them to toil by force, fraud, or coercion.
“Modern day human trafficking takes many forms. Individuals may be held against their will as domestic workers, working for little or no pay, and with no way to find other employment. Others may be forced into prostitution and isolated from people who could provide a means of escape. Victims of human trafficking have few resources and most often go unrecognized by law enforcement, social services representatives and other service providers. Their hidden victimization allows perpetrators to offend under the radar of law enforcement, making the significance of this crime more important to understand.”
http://www.northeastern.edu/humantrafficking/background-on-human-trafficking/
Groups that are fighting for this or similar issues:
Groups that fight for similar issues to those of Thorn are Polaris Project, Girls Educational and Mentoring Services and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). Notable figures backing this cause includes but is not limited to Simon Baker, Jessica Biel, Bradley Cooper, Drake, Jamie Foxx, Kaká, Stacy Keibler, John Legend, Eva Longoria, Ludacris, Jason Mraz, Sean Penn, Adrian Peterson, Zachary Quinto, David Spade, Ben Stiller, Justin Timberlake, Kendall Rae, and Sofia Vergara.
The Rose Project 