Enterprise

In the context of human trafficking, Enterprise refers to any organized operation involved in the exploitation of individuals for profit or gain. This can include organized crime syndicates, trafficking networks, or businesses that engage in exploitative practices, such as labor or sex trafficking.

Enterprise-based human trafficking can involve a wide range of industries and sectors, such as agriculture, construction, hospitality, and domestic work. Often, traffickers will use legitimate businesses as a front for their illicit activities, making it difficult for authorities to detect and investigate the exploitation.

Enterprise-based trafficking can also involve transnational criminal networks, which operate across borders and may use sophisticated methods to evade detection and prosecution. These networks may be involved in multiple forms of criminal activity, such as drug trafficking, arms smuggling, and money laundering, in addition to human trafficking.

Efforts to combat enterprise-based human trafficking require a coordinated response, involving law enforcement agencies, government authorities, civil society organizations, and businesses. This can include initiatives to strengthen legal frameworks and law enforcement capabilities, as well as measures to increase transparency and accountability in business practices and supply chains. By targeting the financial incentives that drive trafficking and exploitation, we can work towards dismantling these criminal enterprises and preventing the harm they cause to vulnerable individuals and communities.

 

 

Tarrant County 5 Stones November 2023 Meeting
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Tarrant County 5 Stones November 2023 Meeting

Here is our recorded meeting link and chat notes for our November 2023 TC 5 Stones meeting! Our 5 Stones meeting this November consisted of some law enforcement updates, a year-end review, and an awards presentation celebrating some of our amazing community influencers. Link to the recorded meeting: The chat log is how our online audience is able to introduce…

Nonprofit to screen human trafficking documentary – Restoration NewsMedia
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Nonprofit to screen human trafficking documentary – Restoration NewsMedia

https://youtu.be/OJayGhvkmkk Editor’s note: Above is the documentary’s trailer from YouTube. “Human Trafficking in North Carolina” is a documentary featuring three survivors discussing their experiences with labor and sex trafficking. This film also features experts in the anti-human trafficking field in North Carolina. This documentary addresses the vulnerabilities of individuals and communities, how to identify human…

5 Cumberland County massage parlors busted in human trafficking sting
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5 Cumberland County massage parlors busted in human trafficking sting

Complaints from the public led police to investigate the five massage parlors and discover that they were all connected to Min Dong. CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. — One person was arrested yesterday in a human trafficking investigation that linked five Cumberland County massage parlors offering illegal services, the county’s District Attorney’s office announced. OPERATION: Closed2Trafficking sought…

Does Prison Labor Pervert What it Means to Say ‘Made in the USA?’
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Does Prison Labor Pervert What it Means to Say ‘Made in the USA?’

The federal government awards contracts for a vast majority of its textile production needs to factories that employ federal prisoners. Many of these prisoners make barely more than a dollar an hour and most of their earnings go back to the prison where they reside or to any child support or restitution still outstanding. This…

Hundreds of thousands trafficked into cyber scamming in Southeast Asia, UN says
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Hundreds of thousands trafficked into cyber scamming in Southeast Asia, UN says

More than 200,000 people are being forced to carry out cyber scams in Southeast Asia, the United Nations estimates. A report published Tuesday by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights documents the monumental scale of trafficking into an illicit industry that took off following the pandemic and shows no sign of slowing…

UN report links SE Asia crypto scams to human trafficking
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UN report links SE Asia crypto scams to human trafficking

A recent UN report reveals hundreds of thousands of vulnerable migrants have been forced to participate in online scams. It confirms allegations made in a previous FBI report. The new report by the United Nations Human Rights Office has exposed the full scale of horrific human rights abuses taking place inside Southeast Asia’s shadowy network of…

GHRC Prison Labor Report Cited as Montana Inmates Deployed to Fight Wildfire
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GHRC Prison Labor Report Cited as Montana Inmates Deployed to Fight Wildfire

Montana state officials praise fire crew with prison inmates; national report, ACLU question pay Keila SzpallerAugust 27, 2023 Daily Montanan (read original here) The Montana Department of Corrections deployed 15 inmates and three correctional officers to help fight a wildfire in the state earlier this month, the DOC said in a news release. The inmates…

Laundry company owners guilty of trafficking migrants, minors for labor
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Laundry company owners guilty of trafficking migrants, minors for labor

The manager of a laundry business in Virginia was accused of pulling a 13-year-old girl’s hair while ordering her back to work. Other teenagers told investigators they were forced to toil through grueling 11-hour overnight shifts before school. And a new mother was grabbed by the arm and shaken when she asked for help taking…

Hidden Traffic : New Human Trafficking and Child Labor Regulation in Canada with Sean Stephenson | JD Supra
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Hidden Traffic : New Human Trafficking and Child Labor Regulation in Canada with Sean Stephenson | JD Supra

The global landscape of human trafficking and forced labor is evolving, and no country is immune. In this episode of Hidden Traffic, Gwen Hassan sits down with Sean Stephenson, an accomplished attorney based in Toronto. Sean works for the multinational law firm Dentons, and has extensive experience in trade and investment. The growing concern for…