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Investigators deploy new tools to fight, track human trafficking in SC – Live 5 News WCSC
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Investigators deploy new tools to fight, track human trafficking in SC – Live 5 News WCSC

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) – South Carolina’s Human Trafficking Task Force is holding its quarterly meeting Friday to discuss the next steps in how its members strategically respond to incidents of human trafficking in the state. This year, the task force is expected to receive its first round of funding from the General Assembly in the state budget,…

Man and woman arrested for human trafficking, use of child in sexual performance – WPTV News Channel 5 West Palm
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Man and woman arrested for human trafficking, use of child in sexual performance – WPTV News Channel 5 West Palm

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — An Indian River County man and a Brevard County woman have been arrested for human trafficking and use of a child in sexual performance. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) arrested Marc Phillip Dinkels, 33, of Vero Beach on two counts of human trafficking and one…

Reports and tips of Human Trafficking on the rise in Tennessee – News Channel 5 Nashville
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Reports and tips of Human Trafficking on the rise in Tennessee – News Channel 5 Nashville

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — About 40 million people are being trafficked worldwide and in 2020 there were 165 human trafficking cases reported in Tennessee. In the United States, on average, every two minutes a child is bought or sold for sex according to End Slavery Tennessee. End Slavery Tennessee reports the average age of entry into trafficking…

Dragonfly Home helps victims of human trafficking with housing program – Oklahoman.com
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Dragonfly Home helps victims of human trafficking with housing program – Oklahoman.com

Watch video here. An Oklahoma City nonprofit will open a transition home for human trafficking victims later this year with organizers hoping to serve those affected while also educating the public about sexual exploitations. “If we as Oklahomans were more aware of the crime of human trafficking, it couldn’t flourish like it is now,” Executive…

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Reality of Human Trafficking | Crozet Gazette
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Hidden in Plain Sight: The Reality of Human Trafficking | Crozet Gazette

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Reality of Human Trafficking Most people think of human trafficking as a faraway problem, a misery confined to big cities or lonely deserts where organized networks of criminals use violence and drugs to collect souls. The residents of quiet communities like Crozet might believe the buying and selling of persons…

Man gets 10-year sentence for sex trafficking a girl from Arizona in L.A. – LA Daily News
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Man gets 10-year sentence for sex trafficking a girl from Arizona in L.A. – LA Daily News

LOS ANGELES — A man was sentenced to 10 years behind bars for forcibly bringing a teenage girl from Arizona to Los Angeles to work as a prostitute, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. Jahque Dijion Williams, 21, of Los Angeles, was sentenced July 14 in federal court in Phoenix. He had previously pleaded guilty to…

Israel not doing enough to fight human trafficking, U.S. says – Haaretz
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Israel not doing enough to fight human trafficking, U.S. says – Haaretz

Israel is not doing enough to prevent human trafficking and ”does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking,” the annual U.S. State Department report on human trafficking stated for the second year in a row. Haaretz goes to Saudi Arabia: LISTEN to Ben Samuels and David Makovsky The report states that…

Man arrested in Toronto human trafficking investigation: police – Global News
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Man arrested in Toronto human trafficking investigation: police – Global News

Police in Toronto have announced an arrest following a human trafficking investigation. Toronto police said an investigation was started by its human trafficking enforcement team in February 2022. A woman was trafficked in the sex trade against her will “through a combination of deception, coercion and physical control by a man,” police alleged. Police said…

Alabama Defendant Convicted of Sex Trafficking and Offenses Tied to a Scheme to Compel Victims, Including a Minor, to Engage in Prostitution – Department of Justice
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Alabama Defendant Convicted of Sex Trafficking and Offenses Tied to a Scheme to Compel Victims, Including a Minor, to Engage in Prostitution – Department of Justice

A federal jury found defendant Lonnie Mitchell, 36, guilty of numerous offenses relating to the defendant’s involvement in coercing several victims, including a minor, to engage in prostitution over the course of several years. Following a five-day trial, the jury convicted the defendant of sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion of five victims. The…

With the support of the Pope, they promote the training of transport workers to fight against slavery through campaigns that make complaint channels visible
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With the support of the Pope, they promote the training of transport workers to fight against slavery through campaigns that make complaint channels visible

  Thursday, August 11, 2022 | 2:42 p.m. Pope Francis expressed his support for the efforts to increase prevention, detection and fight campaigns against human trafficking and smuggling, within the framework of the second international meeting of Transport Unions in the Vatican, in which Gustavo Vera, director of the Executive Committee for the Fight against…