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Faculty and Students Working to Combat Trafficking in Persons
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Faculty and Students Working to Combat Trafficking in Persons

A variety of faculty and students across the University of New Haven have an interest in combating Trafficking in Persons and using forensic science and related technologies to fight this epidemic. Below is a sampling of the people who conduct research and do work in this area of expertise and who will serve as resources…

Faculty and Students Working to Combat Trafficking in Persons
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Faculty and Students Working to Combat Trafficking in Persons

A variety of faculty and students across the University of New Haven have an interest in combating Trafficking in Persons and using forensic science and related technologies to fight this epidemic. Below is a sampling of the people who conduct research and do work in this area of expertise and who will serve as resources…

EXECUTIVE ORDER: Enforcing Federal Law With Respect To Transnational Criminal Organizations And Preventing International Trafficking
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EXECUTIVE ORDER: Enforcing Federal Law With Respect To Transnational Criminal Organizations And Preventing International Trafficking

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: It shall be the policy of the executive branch to: (a) strengthen enforcement of Federal law in order to thwart transnational criminal organizations and subsidiary organizations, including criminal gangs, […]

What is Human Trafficking
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What is Human Trafficking

ABOUT PBJ LEARNING PBJ Learning is a leading provider of online human trafficking training, focusing on awareness and prevention education. Their interactive Human Trafficking Essentials online course is being used worldwide to educate professionals and individuals how to recognize human trafficking and how to respond to a potential victim. Their online human trafficking course is…

Agonising film SOLD shows the brutality of child trafficking | Daily Mail Online
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Agonising film SOLD shows the brutality of child trafficking | Daily Mail Online

‘Trafficking children for sex is an abomination of humanity’: Gillian Anderson admits being shocked at the scale of the slave trade in India Up to 46 million people globally live as slaves, generating an estimated $150 billion in illegal profits a year An estimated 1.8 million children are sold into the sex trade every year …

Transforming Communities, Changing Lives
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Transforming Communities, Changing Lives

Without her husband, she and her children would be thrust deeper into their cycle of debt and poverty. Without him, her family, neighbours and friends would judge, criticize and sneer. If she left him, she didn’t know how she would possibly survive. It can be difficult for us to understand why a woman would stay…

Senior UN officials seek accountability for human trafficking crimes in forced migration
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Senior UN officials seek accountability for human trafficking crimes in forced migration

“During their journey to Europe and other locations, many migrants and refugees have witnessed or been victims of crimes and human rights violations, including murder and enforced disappearance, slavery and extortion, sexual violence, torture and other forms of cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment,” said Adama Dieng, UN Special Adviser on Prevention of Genocide. Mr. Dieng…

Tools That Teach: What is Human Trafficking?
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Tools That Teach: What is Human Trafficking?

ABOUT PBJ LEARNING PBJ Learning is a leading provider of online human trafficking training, focusing on awareness and prevention education. Their interactive Human Trafficking Essentials online course is being used worldwide to educate professionals and individuals how to recognize human trafficking and how to respond to a potential victim. Their online human trafficking course is…

Security Council urges action against human trafficking, sexual abuse by ISIL and other terror groups
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Security Council urges action against human trafficking, sexual abuse by ISIL and other terror groups

The Security Council today called on all United Nations Member States to do everything in their power to combat human trafficking, especially for sexual purposes, citing the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and Boko Haram as prime perpetrators.

“Humanizing the Prisons” The Atlantic Monthly, August, 1911, issue. Vol. 108, No. 2 (p.170-179).
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“Humanizing the Prisons” The Atlantic Monthly, August, 1911, issue. Vol. 108, No. 2 (p.170-179).

August 1911Humanizing the Prisonsby Morrison I. Swift The State of Vermont contains a prison where the inmates are treated upon a novel plan. They are trusted and treated like other human beings; they come and go almost as freely as the members of the jailer’s own family; so far as possible whatever suggests punishment or…