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COLUMN: The criminal industry before us all | Columnists | swoknews.com
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COLUMN: The criminal industry before us all | Columnists | swoknews.com

ByEyes on Trafficking News

By Lance Janda Human trafficking is the second largest criminal industry in the world. It enslaves approximately 25 million people, generates more than $150 billion annually, and receives far too little attention from the media, law enforcement, or elected officials. Traffickers operate in secret and in plain sight, and can be found in every country,…

For decades, Mass. attorneys general have tried to expand the state’s wiretap law.
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For decades, Mass. attorneys general have tried to expand the state’s wiretap law.

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Massachusetts attorneys general have for decades pushed the state to modernize its 1968 wiretap law, which limits electronic surveillance to cases tied to organized crime. Attorney General Maura Healey and several of her recent predecessors have unsuccessfully called on the Legislature to broaden the law’s reach beyond suspected organized crime figures, to make it easier…

Answering the Supreme Court's Call for Guidance on the Alien Tort Statute – Just Security
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Answering the Supreme Court's Call for Guidance on the Alien Tort Statute – Just Security

ByEyes on Trafficking News

by William S. Dodge and Oona Hathaway June 3, 2022 Original article here In June 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Nestlé v. Doe that the plaintiffs, who were allegedly trafficked as children from Mali to Ivory Coast to engage in slave labor on cocoa plantations, could not sue U.S. companies that supported those plantations under the Alien…