Human Trafficking Types

Super category for all types of trafficking, from child marriage to organ harvesting.

Missouri prisoners say food went from bad to worse when contractor took over • Missouri Independent
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Missouri prisoners say food went from bad to worse when contractor took over • Missouri Independent

Missouri volunteer prison labor tends gardens that yield about 100 tons of fresh produce a year. For the most part, that food goes to local charities. The prisoners who grow it complain they get little fresh food. Instead, they get a lot of bologna. They say they’re served portions they consider too small and unappetizing….

Pakistan Police Bust Organ Trafficking Ring That Surgically Removed Kidneys From Hundreds
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Pakistan Police Bust Organ Trafficking Ring That Surgically Removed Kidneys From Hundreds

Police in Pakistan have busted an organ harvesting ring run by an infamous doctor, a report in CNN said. Eight people have been arrested for surgically removing kidneys from hundreds of patients for wealthy people needing a transplant. The police identified the kingpin as “Dr Fawad”, who is accused of carrying out 328 such surgeries…

Everstream Analytics World’s First Slave-Free Alliance-Validated Modern Slavery and Forced Labor Risk Management Solution
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Everstream Analytics World’s First Slave-Free Alliance-Validated Modern Slavery and Forced Labor Risk Management Solution

SAN MARCOS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Everstream Analytics, the global supply chain insights and risk analytics company, announced today that it has been recognized as the world’s first Slave-Free Alliance-validated modern slavery and forced labor technology provider. The issue of modern-day slavery and child labor is one of the most significant challenges of today’s supply chains, with recent…

Tarrant County 5 Stones September 2023 Meeting
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Tarrant County 5 Stones September 2023 Meeting

Here is our recorded meeting link and chat notes for our September 2023 TC 5 Stones meeting! Our 5 Stones meeting this September consisted of some law enforcement updates and a presentation by Carrie Grace, Executive Director of Freedom Shield Foundation, as she discussed the importance of self-care and avoiding burnout as service providers. Link to the recorded meeting: https://youtu.be/5OzWyCSuUHw…

UN Report Urges End to Forced US Prison Labor—a ‘Contemporary Form of Slavery’
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UN Report Urges End to Forced US Prison Labor—a ‘Contemporary Form of Slavery’

A report published Thursday by United Nations human rights experts condemns systemic racism in the U.S. criminal justice system and policing, while describing “appalling” prison conditions and decrying forced unpaid convict labor as a “contemporary form of slavery.” The U.N. International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in the Context of Law…

A ‘culture war’ threatens legitimate political participation
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A ‘culture war’ threatens legitimate political participation

Editor’s note: we feel it’s important to cover opinions with regard to culture. Do additional research and form your own opinions. Get the latest Syracuse news delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our newsletter here. It’s no secret that the United States is more or less defined by its own culture war, and has…

“Dead Man Walking” at Sing Sing
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“Dead Man Walking” at Sing Sing

Photograph by Karen Almond / Courtesy Met Opera The epigraph to Sister Helen Prejean’s book “Dead Man Walking,” published in 1993, is from “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”: “I went right along, not fixing up any particular plan, but just trusting in Providence to put the right words in my mouth when the time come:…

Court Rejects Claim That Wife Was Civilly Responsible for Her Husband’s Raping Other Women
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Court Rejects Claim That Wife Was Civilly Responsible for Her Husband’s Raping Other Women

From today’s decision by Judge Jeffrey Helmick (N.D. Ohio) in Doe 1 v. Gupta: On March 19, 2020, Manish Raj Gupta was indicted by a federal grand jury on one count of sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1591(a) and (b)(1), and one count of illegally dispensing a…

Study examines cost of child marriage over life cycle of girls, women
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Study examines cost of child marriage over life cycle of girls, women

AMMAN – Child marriage has repercussions on human development throughout all stages of women’s lives, according to a recent study by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). The study, titled “The cost of child marriage over the life cycle of girls and women”, was published in September 2023. Its findings are…

CR Ep 094: Human Trafficking Preventucation with Billy Joe Cain and NASA UAP Report with Mike Turber
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CR Ep 094: Human Trafficking Preventucation with Billy Joe Cain and NASA UAP Report with Mike Turber

Posted on September 20, 2023 Read the original on CuriousRealm.com here. In the first part of this episode of the Curious Realm host Christopher Jordan welcomes founder of Radical Empathy Education Foundation and co-founder of PBJ Learning, Billy Joe Cain. We discuss recent developments in the cause of human trafficking prevention, and how groundbreaking technologies like Virtual Reality can…