Human Trafficking Types

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

Colorado Springs organization looks to continue the fight against human trafficking
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Colorado Springs organization looks to continue the fight against human trafficking

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) – The Lotus Foundation was established with the mission of providing services and case management to the survivors of both sex and labor trafficking. ”There are a lot of survivors in the area, not just in Colorado Springs, but in all of Colorado,” executive director of the Lotus Foundation Heather Starr…

GHRC Prison Labor Report Cited as Montana Inmates Deployed to Fight Wildfire
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GHRC Prison Labor Report Cited as Montana Inmates Deployed to Fight Wildfire

Montana state officials praise fire crew with prison inmates; national report, ACLU question pay Keila SzpallerAugust 27, 2023 Daily Montanan (read original here) The Montana Department of Corrections deployed 15 inmates and three correctional officers to help fight a wildfire in the state earlier this month, the DOC said in a news release. The inmates…

US Turns To Country Notorious For Child Labor And Unsafe Mines To Source Its EV Ambitions
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US Turns To Country Notorious For Child Labor And Unsafe Mines To Source Its EV Ambitions

US Turns To Country Notorious For Child Labor And Unsafe Mines To Source Its EV Ambitions Nick Pope on August 24, 2023 In order to facilitate electric vehicle (EV) production, the U.S. is seeking to spend taxpayer dollars to develop cobalt supply chains from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a country which is…

Walmart, Centric Brands Probe ‘Very Concerning’ Cambodia Prison Labor Allegations
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Walmart, Centric Brands Probe ‘Very Concerning’ Cambodia Prison Labor Allegations

Walmart and Centric Brands are probing their supply chains in Cambodia over allegations of the illegal use of women’s prison labor to produce garments for export in the wake of questions raised by Reuters this week and amid ongoing concerns by an apparel industry trade group that the violations were taking place. The American Apparel…

Kiran seriously concerned about child negligence
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Kiran seriously concerned about child negligence

Assistant Minister for Women, Children and Social Protection Sashi Kiran is concerned with the data of child negligence under the Child Welfare Act National Database as it shows that child abuse and neglect happens within a child’s safe space. She says according to the Child Welfare Act National Database, 68% of the 1,968 cases that…

Feds Open Probe into Biden’s Handling of Migrant Kids Being Labor Trafficked
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Feds Open Probe into Biden’s Handling of Migrant Kids Being Labor Trafficked

A federal watchdog has opened an investigation into how President Joe Biden’s Labor Department has handled a surge of migrant children being labor trafficked after having been released into the United States interior from the southern border. As Breitbart News has reported for months, Biden’s Labor Department, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Department of…

What Do China’s Neighbors Think of De-risking?
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What Do China’s Neighbors Think of De-risking?

https://youtu.be/KSjjw730ycg With the United States leading the charge, more and more countries are growing concerned about economic over-reliance on China. From supply chain disruptions to economic coercion, the risks are ever-more apparent. But for close neighbors like Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, whose economies are deeply intertwined with China’s, de-risking is not a simple proposition….

Biden admin to fund $4M study linking climate change to child labor, trafficking in Nepal, grant docs show
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Biden admin to fund $4M study linking climate change to child labor, trafficking in Nepal, grant docs show

The Biden administration is funding a $4 million project to determine a connection between child labor and climate change in the South Asian country of Nepal. The U.S. Department of Labor on Monday announced the availability of $4 million in federal taxpayer dollars to be released through its Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) “to…

TRAPPED: A VR Detective Story receives video recommendation from subject matter expert, Dr. LaTienda Pierre, from Louisiana State University
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TRAPPED: A VR Detective Story receives video recommendation from subject matter expert, Dr. LaTienda Pierre, from Louisiana State University

Appleseed Program boxes allow you to experience the immersion We are fortunate to have wonderful people taking Appleseed boxes with TRAPPED: A VR Detective Story pre-loaded on VR headsets across America. One of those headsets made it to the desk of LSU Shreveport‘s Dr. LaTienda Pierre.  Here’s the video and a transcript. “Tell me about…