Eyes on Trafficking

Human trafficking articles and commentary from different perspectives.

Bringing awareness to human trafficking one mile at a time
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Bringing awareness to human trafficking one mile at a time

ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – He’s at it again. Zackery Jennissen, 20, is running for a good cause. On September 1 he is running from noon to noon on September 2, so 24 hours, near RCTC’s campus. Jennissen is running to support the 30 for Freedom campaign. 30 for Freedom’s goal is to take a stand…

Disney’s Links to Human Trafficking and Sexualization of Minors – Inside the Magic
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Disney’s Links to Human Trafficking and Sexualization of Minors – Inside the Magic

Human trafficking of any kind is one of the vilest types of evil. A company as large as Walt Disney plays a significant role in child welfare. After the company was proven to have violated children’s rights, the masses and media began to connect the company to many human trafficking cases, missing persons issues, and…

Local bank donates to help raise awareness around human trafficking
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Local bank donates to help raise awareness around human trafficking

  The Union Bank Company supports She Has A Name Thanks to the continued generosity of The Union Bank Co. we can educate more kids about how to avoid exploitation that leads to human trafficking”— Courtney Schmackers, Executive Director of She Has A Name COLUMBUS, OH, UNITED STATES, August 31, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — Each month, The Union Bank Company…

China hacked Japan’s NISC, trafficking fuels cyber scams
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China hacked Japan’s NISC, trafficking fuels cyber scams

Chinese threat actors breached Japan’s cybersecurity agency Earlier this month, Japan’s National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy, or NISC, disclosed a data breach exposed emails to a third-party. The Financial Times’ sources say the Japanese government believes China’s People’s Liberation Army orchestrated the attack. It’s believed the hack took place in October 2022, but…

Oakland man charged with human trafficking of girl he met on Instagram
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Oakland man charged with human trafficking of girl he met on Instagram

OAKLAND — Weeks before his 22nd birthday, an Oakland man has been charged with trafficking a teen girl after they met on social media, according to court records. Jeremiah Means, 21, was charged Aug. 28 with human trafficking of a minor, pimping a minor and pandering by encouraging. He also faces unrelated charges of brandishing…

Agency: 100 migrants from one Indonesian province have died abroad in 2023
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Agency: 100 migrants from one Indonesian province have died abroad in 2023

Illness and overwork have been blamed for the deaths this year of 100 migrants who ventured abroad from one eastern Indonesian province, the national workers’ protection agency said Wednesday. Ninety-seven of them had died since Jan. 1 in neighboring Malaysia, while the rest died in Laos, Papua New Guinea and Gabon, according to Benny Rhamdani,…

Research Urges More Sex Trafficking Training in Healthcare
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Research Urges More Sex Trafficking Training in Healthcare

Victims’ agency and needs, independent of their desire to exit trafficking, should be the focus of healthcare services for individuals who have been sexually exploited, concludes a new study by researchers with McGill University’s Ingram School of Nursing (ISoN). “Unfortunately, we found a lack of awareness on the part of healthcare professionals and the inability…

FBI, Homeland Security discuss efforts to fight human trafficking
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FBI, Homeland Security discuss efforts to fight human trafficking

Human sex trafficking isn’t what most people think it is, according to FBI Special Agent Taylor Dervish. Dervish, who is assigned to the Atlanta Violent Crimes Against Children Task Force Program, spoke Tuesday to a joint meeting of the Carpet Capital Rotary Club and the Rotary Club of Dalton. “The task force is the largest in…

Hundreds of thousands trafficked into cyber scamming in Southeast Asia, UN says
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Hundreds of thousands trafficked into cyber scamming in Southeast Asia, UN says

More than 200,000 people are being forced to carry out cyber scams in Southeast Asia, the United Nations estimates. A report published Tuesday by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights documents the monumental scale of trafficking into an illicit industry that took off following the pandemic and shows no sign of slowing…

179 victims of human trafficking rescued in Wakiso
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179 victims of human trafficking rescued in Wakiso

Police on Wednesday arrested a suspect on charges related to human trafficking and rescued 179 victims who had been recruited and were supposed to be taken to Kenya for employment. Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson, Patrick Onyango, said the victims comprised of 99 males and 80 females. He said the victims were taken to Kakiri Police…