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AAHOA supports enhanced reporting to end human trafficking – Asian Hospitality AAHOA supports enhanced reporting to end human trafficking
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AAHOA supports enhanced reporting to end human trafficking – Asian Hospitality AAHOA supports enhanced reporting to end human trafficking

AAHOA IS ENDORSING passage of the National Human Trafficking Hotline Enhancement Act that aims to improve reporting of suspected human and sex trafficking. The association also will continue training its 20,000 members to prevent and intercept trafficking in their hotels. The National Human Trafficking Hotline Enhancement Act would require entities that contract with the National…

AAHOA Backs Best Practices, Enhanced Reporting Requirements to End Human Trafficking
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AAHOA Backs Best Practices, Enhanced Reporting Requirements to End Human Trafficking

ATLANTA, Ga. – Hotels and motels are on the front lines of preventing and intercepting human sex and labor trafficking. AAHOA (Asian American Hotel Owners Association), the largest hotel owners association in the world, has been working with its 20,000 members to promote awareness and prevention strategies for trafficking. As the owners of 34,000 hotels…

‘Reach every victim’ and ‘leave no one behind’: Sisters combat human trafficking
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‘Reach every victim’ and ‘leave no one behind’: Sisters combat human trafficking

July 30 is the United Nations’ World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. The theme for this year is “Reach every victim of trafficking, leave no one behind.” Our sister panelists shared what their congregations are doing to eliminate this grave offense against human dignity by responding to the question: What have you or your congregation…

Human trafficking ring in metro Atlanta | Conyers man wanted, accused of trafficking 3 girls
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Human trafficking ring in metro Atlanta | Conyers man wanted, accused of trafficking 3 girls

Terry Florence is on of 11 men indicted in a trafficking ring uncovered after a missing 17-year-old Missouri girl was rescued in a US Marshals operation in Atlanta. ATLANTA — As the Attorney General‘s Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit continues to get indictments on suspects accused of buying and selling victims for sex across metro Atlanta,…

Global Center Raises Awareness Of Human Trafficking – Montclair State University
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Global Center Raises Awareness Of Human Trafficking – Montclair State University

February 3, 2023 Legislative breakfast caps slate of events designed to educate community Elected officials, survivors of human trafficking and other guests including First Lady Tammy Murphy, Assemblywoman Shanique Speight, Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle and Senator Nellie Pou gathered at Montclair State University on February 3 to discuss human trafficking law and policy in New…

RWJBarnabas using $500K federal grant to fight human trafficking – NJBIZ
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RWJBarnabas using $500K federal grant to fight human trafficking – NJBIZ

January is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month, and RWJBarnabas Health used the designation to kick off a program funded by a $500,000 federal grant aimed at combating the practice.  The funding – announced in October 2022 by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families’ Office on Trafficking in Persons –…

Hard Rock announces expanded efforts to prevent human trafficking in the industry
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Hard Rock announces expanded efforts to prevent human trafficking in the industry

Hard Rock International marked January 11 as the National Human Trafficking Awareness Day by expanding action to strengthen the industry’s role in combating and preventing human trafficking.  Human trafficking, which includes commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor, is “a complex challenge for the entire global hospitality industry because it intersects a range of organized criminal…

Congress Passes, President Signs Partial Reauthorization of Trafficking Victims Protection Act
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Congress Passes, President Signs Partial Reauthorization of Trafficking Victims Protection Act

January 6, 2023 • 5:05 pm • Terry FitzPatrick WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden this week signed two bills passed in December during the final days of the 117th Congress to reauthorize portions of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). ATEST applauds enactment of these bipartisan measures and calls on the current Congress to complete…

How Louisiana’s Human Trafficking Prevention team is working to save lives
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How Louisiana’s Human Trafficking Prevention team is working to save lives

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – Human Trafficking remains a significant issue for Louisiana. In January, Governor John Bel Edwards joined Dr. Dana Hunter in officially announcing the state’s first Human Trafficking Prevention Resource Center and advocacy campaign. Sheri Combs, the Senior Human Trafficking Program Manager of Covenant House told BRProud, “I grew up in foster care,…

ATEST Applauds Senate Confirmation of Cindy Dyer as J/TIP Ambassador
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ATEST Applauds Senate Confirmation of Cindy Dyer as J/TIP Ambassador

December 21, 2022 • 5:00 pm • Terry FitzPatrick WASHINGTON – The Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking (ATEST) thanks the U.S. Senate for confirming Cindy Dyer to become the next director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (J/TIP), with the rank of ambassador. Her appointment by President Biden earlier this…