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False Promise is a common tactic used by traffickers to lure victims into trafficking situations. This can involve promises of employment, education, or other opportunities that are not fulfilled, or promises of a better life in another country that turn out to be false. Once the victim is under the trafficker’s control, they may be subjected to forced labor or other forms of exploitation.
Homelessness can expose people to all kinds of challenges: violence, disease, the freezing cold. Now a Colorado Project report by the Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking has added a new danger for those living on the streets of Denver: forced labor and sex trafficking. “Housing instability and homelessness is a top challenge,” says AnnJanette Alejano-Steele,…
On 23 May, Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) issued an arrest warrant for Wycliffe Onguti Magara. Magara had been identified as the head of a local human trafficking network that recruits East Africans online with the promise of job opportunities in Southeast Asia. But once they arrive, victims are forced to work for cybercrime…
Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a package of bills into law Wednesday that aim to combat human trafficking and expand the state’s anti-human trafficking task force and length of duty. The group of six bills will require Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, commercial service airports and bus stops, MTA facilities, truck stops and…
The BBC recounts the findings from a UN report that details how hundreds of thousands of people from around the world are lured to Southeast Asia through false promises and then trafficked to run online scams under severe threat. “People who have been trafficked into online forced criminality… are subject to torture and cruel inhuman…
Human trafficking is the act of compelling someone to work, for little or no pay, through force, fraud, or coercion. It is a multidimensional problem that disproportionately impacts marginalized communities across the United States and around the world. While human trafficking can happen anywhere, systemic injustices like racism, homophobia, sexism, economic inequality, and more lead…
In the hushed corners of our society, a sinister industry flourishes, largely hidden and unspoken of. It’s an issue so shocking and perplexing that people tend to ignore it when brought to light. This is the pandemic of sex trafficking and child sex trafficking. One might presume that in a civilized, developed nation like the…
Do you know what human trafficking looks like? Myths and misconceptions make the crime difficult to spot. Human trafficking involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act. Every year, millions of men, women, and children are trafficked worldwide – including right here in the United…
There are more slaves today than at any other time in our history, even when slavery was legal. Did you know that? I didn’t until I saw the must-see movie of summer: “Sound of Freedom.” Movie reviews have been glowing: “It’s based on an incredible true story and it shines a light on the darkest…
Capitalising on poor people’s dreams of making life colourful, a number of criminal gangs are committing reckless human trafficking in the name of jobs. The gangs continue to cheat people by promising them good jobs in different countries. Despite strict laws against human trafficking, the gangs remain undetected. Besides, the low conviction rate in trafficking…
SINGAPORE: For the past several years, INTERPOL has been closely observing a growing crime phenomenon: large-scale human trafficking where victims are lured through fake job ads to online scam centres and forced to commit cyber-enabled financial crime on an industrial scale. The crime trend, which has seen tens of thousands trafficked in Southeast Asia and…
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