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Survive and Thrive honors 6 for efforts to end human trafficking in – Tallahassee Democrat
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Survive and Thrive honors 6 for efforts to end human trafficking in – Tallahassee Democrat

The Survive and Thrive Advocacy Center (STAC) recently honored six local changemakers and their teams for helping strengthen the community against sex and labor trafficking. Founded in 2015, STAC assists human trafficking survivors and empowers communities with the tools to recognize, report and prevent trafficking. As a member of the National Human Trafficking Hotline, STAC…

Low wages for prison inmates ‘remnants of slavery,’ says lawmaker seeking to outlaw practice
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Low wages for prison inmates ‘remnants of slavery,’ says lawmaker seeking to outlaw practice

Nevada inmates may be working for as little as 35 cents an hour and having significant portions of their checks withheld by the Nevada Department of Corrections. State Sen. Dina Neal, D-North Las Vegas, wants to change that, the Nevada Current reported. Neal has introduced Senate Bill 187, which would require the Nevada Department of…

How 5G can be misused for drug trafficking, money laundering, terror financing
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How 5G can be misused for drug trafficking, money laundering, terror financing

The papers were written by Indian Police Service officers, were submitted at the just-concluded conference of director generals of police (DGPs) and inspector general of police (IGPs), attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The papers noted that the 5G network is built on easily accessible and open Internet protocols and it inherit all the vulnerabilities…

Skill training and entrepreneurship – inroads to alternate and well-paying livelihoods for …
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Skill training and entrepreneurship – inroads to alternate and well-paying livelihoods for …

Human trafficking has disproportionately impacted marginalized communities, with more than 50 million people estimated to be in situations of modern slavery across the world. The problem is alarming, with almost 1 in every 150 people susceptible to being entrapped in forced labour in the post Covid-19 world, according to ILO’s Global Estimates of Modern Slavery…

Epstein’s sex trafficking was aided by JPMorgan, a U.S. Virgin Islands lawsuit says
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Epstein’s sex trafficking was aided by JPMorgan, a U.S. Virgin Islands lawsuit says

The government of the U.S. Virgin Islands alleges in a lawsuit filed this week that JPMorgan Chase “turned a blind eye” to evidence that disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein used the bank to facilitate sex-trafficking activities on Little St. James, the private island he owned in the territory until his 2019 suicide. In a more than…

US Virgin Islands suing JPMorgan Chase over Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking
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US Virgin Islands suing JPMorgan Chase over Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking

Documents accuse bank of ‘turning a blind eye’ to illegal activities committed by their client The US Virgin Islands is suing the bank JPMorgan Chase, accusing it of helping Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking of women and girls, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court in New York. The documents submitted by the US Virgin…

A woman who planned to donate part of her liver to get her son a job has been fined $2,300, report says
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A woman who planned to donate part of her liver to get her son a job has been fined $2,300, report says

The liver donation plan was found to violate South Korea’s organ transplant act, a court found. A Korean woman who planned to donate part of her liver in exchange for a job for her son was fined. A nurse became suspicious of the woman and reported her to authorities, The Hankyoreh reported. She asked a…

“One Nation Under Blackmail” author Whitney Webb Interview
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“One Nation Under Blackmail” author Whitney Webb Interview

Editor’s note: her claims are backed by significant documentation that deserves to be taken very seriously. Whitney Webb has been a professional writer, researcher and journalist since 2016. She has written for several websites and, from 2017 to 2020, was a staff writer and senior investigative reporter for Mint Press News. She currently writes for…