--- title: Prachi Vidwans | TIME description: Vidwans is a research associate at the Human Rights Foundation. canonical: https://time.com/author/prachi-vidwans/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/prachi-vidwans/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Prachi Vidwans ## Prachi Vidwans Vidwans is a research associate at the [Human Rights Foundation](https://hrf.org/). ## Prachi Vidwans *  Jul 30, 2019 ### [Human Trafficking Has a Hidden Cause — and It's on the Rise Worldwide](https://time.com/5638667/human-trafficking-cause/) Authoritarianism contributes to human trafficking [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Nov 29, 2018 ### ['Ideas Cannot Be Killed With Weapons.' Why the Assassination of Syria's Most Prominent Citizen Journalist Matters](https://time.com/5466658/remembering-raed-fares-syria/) “Revolutions are ideas and ideas cannot be killed with weapons,” Raed Fares said [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/prachi-vidwans/","name":"Prachi Vidwans"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/prachi-vidwans/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/prachi-vidwans/"},"name":"Prachi Vidwans","jobTitle":null,"description":"Vidwans is a research associate at the Human Rights Foundation.","url":"https://time.com/author/prachi-vidwans/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```