Congressional Research Service

All you need to know about the TIP Report
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All you need to know about the TIP Report

ByEyes on Trafficking News

If you’ve been in the fight against trafficking for a little while, you may have heard of the Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP Report hereafter). This provides rankings like we have on our site, listing Cambodia as “Tier 3” and Belize as “Tier 2”. You may be new to this fight and have no idea…

Inside the $1.7 billion global organ trafficking industry – Businessday NG
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Inside the $1.7 billion global organ trafficking industry – Businessday NG

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Recently, there have been uproars on and off social media about Ike Ekweremadu, former deputy senate president and his wife, Beatrice, who were arrested by the United Kingdom Police over alleged child trafficking and conspiracy to harvest an organ of a child. Organ trafficking sometimes known as transplant tourism describes the commercialism that drives the…

Guest Worker Visas and Labor Trafficking: Weaknesses in the H2 Visa Programs
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Guest Worker Visas and Labor Trafficking: Weaknesses in the H2 Visa Programs

ByAdam Zarnowski

Exploitation is practically written into immigration and foreign labor policy Original document: March 12, 2022 We offer this article in audio form. It’s generated by a program; apologies for any weirdness. Introduction Where immigration policy and anti-human trafficking initiatives meet, loopholes are often created that allow for the continued exploitation and trafficking of foreign laborers…

Migrant minors dispute pits Florida against Catholic Church
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Migrant minors dispute pits Florida against Catholic Church

ByEyes on Trafficking News

MIAMI (AP) — The debate over whether to deter or accommodate minors arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border without their parents has pitted Florida’s Catholic governor against the state’s highest-ranking Roman Catholic. The Archbishop of Miami, Thomas Wenski, and other faith leaders have implored the governor to reconsider an order that suspends renewals of state licenses…