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COVID-19, Climate Change, Impunity & Conflicts Aggravating Human Trafficking – IDN-InDepthNews
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COVID-19, Climate Change, Impunity & Conflicts Aggravating Human Trafficking – IDN-InDepthNews

By Aurora Weiss VIENNA (IDN) — The COVID-19 pandemic has increased human trafficking using social networks and the Internet as a platform, Lead Author of the UNODC Global Reports on Trafficking in Persons, Fabricio Sarrica, told IDN. He was highlighting some salient aspects of the 2022 UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, the seventh…

Ending January recognizing Human Trafficking Prevention Month – Seymour Tribune
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Ending January recognizing Human Trafficking Prevention Month – Seymour Tribune

The National Human Trafficking Hotline website showed that at any given time in 2021, approximately 27.6 million people were in forced labor. While January is coming to a close, it is a month that spreads awareness and educates others on human trafficking prevention. Human trafficking is defined as the use of force, fraud or coercion…

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Reality of Human Trafficking | Crozet Gazette
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Hidden in Plain Sight: The Reality of Human Trafficking | Crozet Gazette

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Reality of Human Trafficking Most people think of human trafficking as a faraway problem, a misery confined to big cities or lonely deserts where organized networks of criminals use violence and drugs to collect souls. The residents of quiet communities like Crozet might believe the buying and selling of persons…

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Reality of Human Trafficking – The Crozet Gazette
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Hidden in Plain Sight: The Reality of Human Trafficking – The Crozet Gazette

Most people think of human trafficking as a faraway problem, a misery confined to big cities or lonely deserts where organized networks of criminals use violence and drugs to collect souls. The residents of quiet communities like Crozet might believe the buying and selling of persons can be happening only somewhere else, not here, but…