NY Times: Migrant Children Being Abused, Trafficked After Release into U.S. Explodes Under Biden
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NY Times: Migrant Children Being Abused, Trafficked After Release into U.S. Explodes Under Biden

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Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) reported to federal officials for being subjected to abuse, neglect, or trafficking after their release into the United States has exploded under President Joe Biden’s watch. According to bombshell data from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), published in the New York Times, there has been an explosion in…

Sister Of Minor Abused By Gurugram Couple Still Missing: Police – NDTV.com
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Sister Of Minor Abused By Gurugram Couple Still Missing: Police – NDTV.com

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  Gurugram: The 17-year-old domestic help who was tortured by her employers in Gurugram has an elder sister who too was brought from her village for work and has been untraceable for the last several months, police here said on Saturday. The girl was brought for work last year by a Delhi-based agency and was placed…

U.K. statistics regulator says “no evidence” modern slavery law being abused
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U.K. statistics regulator says “no evidence” modern slavery law being abused

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The U.K. Statistics Regulator has released a statement announcing that they have not found evidence to support the Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s claims that people are abusing the U.K.’s modern slavery laws and “gaming the system”. Dangerous and unsubstantiated rhetoric Damaging rhetoric from the U.K. government has contributed to an environment that casts doubt on…

Migrant domestic workers trafficked and abused in Oman
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Migrant domestic workers trafficked and abused in Oman

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A new report has exposed how women from Sierra Leone have been trafficked into domestic work in Oman and trapped in abusive private households while the authorities fail to protect victims. Widespread abuse & exploitation Do Bold, an organization supporting migrant workers in Gulf states, interviewed 469 domestic workers from Sierra Leone working in Oman…

Mother of Victim: Were You Abused by Swami Chetanananda – Frank Report
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Mother of Victim: Were You Abused by Swami Chetanananda – Frank Report

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Editor’s note: We do not take a stance regarding these allegations. This article has been included for educational purposes to show how complicated situations like this can be for people to get justice. Find new resources after the article. Swami Chetanananda appears to have violently, sexually, and psychologically abused a young woman named Eva a…

Cry for help from abused domestic child workers – The Citizen
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Cry for help from abused domestic child workers – The Citizen

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By Doreen Parkshard Domestic workers in households have often been taken for granted. Not knowing their rights has been a loophole to the brutal treatment they are prone to experiencing from their employers. The worst part is that minors under the age of 18 years are the major victims of such despicable violence. Annastazia Peter…

Refugees risk being exploited and abused in Malaysia’s food industry
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Refugees risk being exploited and abused in Malaysia’s food industry

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Malaysian law does not recognize refugees so many are forced to work informally, thus running the risk of being subjected to exploitation. In a report by Al Jazeera, testimonies from refugees in Kuala Lumpur provide evidence of the situation. Mirron (not her real name) arrived from Somalia in 2018 and had no knowledge of what…

Abused in the Search of a Better Life – The Plight of Smuggled Migrants
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Abused in the Search of a Better Life – The Plight of Smuggled Migrants

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Puntarenas, (Costa Rica), 18 February 2022 – Migrants who are smuggled through the dangerous Darien Gap region in Central America are regularly subjected to abuse, violence, and sexual assault, and women and girls are the primary victims. This week in Puntarenas, Costa Rica, experts from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), trained…

UNODC Highlights Lack of Justice for Migrants Abused on Smuggling Routes
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UNODC Highlights Lack of Justice for Migrants Abused on Smuggling Routes

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Vienna (Austria) 28 June 2021 Migrants who use smuggling networks to flee their home countries are often subjected to extreme violence, torture, rape and kidnapping while in transit or captivity. Despite the severity of these offences, little action is taken by national authorities and, in some cases, officials are complicit in these crimes. These are…