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Prevention Cohort LIVE Ep 6: AMP Model Discussion; Social Media “Human Trafficking Panic” Posts
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Prevention Cohort LIVE Ep 6: AMP Model Discussion; Social Media “Human Trafficking Panic” Posts

ByBilly Joe Cain

Come learn about new tools to end human trafficking through prevention education. We go through the AMP Model to teach the definition.

Ahead of TIP Report, Labor Rights Activists Urge U.S. to Call for Thailand and Taiwan to Protect Migrant Workers and End Forced Labor in Seafood Industry
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Ahead of TIP Report, Labor Rights Activists Urge U.S. to Call for Thailand and Taiwan to Protect Migrant Workers and End Forced Labor in Seafood Industry

ByEyes on Trafficking News

WASHINGTON, DC (June 5, 2023) – Greenpeace USA, Global Labor Justice – International Labor Rights Forum (GLJ-ILRF), and allies in the Seafood Working Group (SWG) today announced their findings of labor rights violations, forced labor, and human trafficking of migrant workers in Thailand and Taiwan and called on the U.S. Department of State to downgrade…

Govt bent on reaching TIP Tier 1 this year – Bangkok Post
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Govt bent on reaching TIP Tier 1 this year – Bangkok Post

ByEyes on Trafficking News

The government has affirmed its determination to achieve an upgrade from Tier 2 to Tier 1 in the US’ Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP report), said Boonchob Suthamanuswong, the permanent secretary for labour. Mr Boonchob made the remark during a discussion with James L Wayman, a political adviser to the US ambassador to Thailand, on…

Expanding Our Anti-Trafficking Work into Indonesia
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Expanding Our Anti-Trafficking Work into Indonesia

ByEyes on Trafficking News

A young tattooed girl stood in line for the ticket booth with two older women. The sun at its peak looked down through a hazy sky. Great hulking vessels waited lazily in the shipyard while people milled about over the docks, dragging luggage and readying for departure. This port in Indonesia is a hotspot for…

52 women, girls fall victim to human trafficking in Namibia
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52 women, girls fall victim to human trafficking in Namibia

ByEyes on Trafficking News

This has been revealed by a global report on human trafficking released late last month. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 2022 report on human trafficking shows 52 women and girls were trafficked in Namibia between 2017 and 2020, while 43 men and boys were trafficked. Overall 95 Namibians were trafficked during…

Why our thinking on human rights at sea should not end with seafarers
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Why our thinking on human rights at sea should not end with seafarers

ByEyes on Trafficking News

It is generally accepted that human rights apply at sea, although there is no convention recognizing or proclaiming the existence and extent of such rights. However, the rights of those at sea continue to be abused. In recent years, much of the focus has rightly been on seafarers and the situation is improving, although there…

The disturbing links between climate change and modern-day slavery
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The disturbing links between climate change and modern-day slavery

ByEyes on Trafficking News

© Provided by The Hill On Sept. 12, a disturbing new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO), Walk Free and International Organization for Migration (IOM) revealed that the number of people in modern slavery has risen by approximately 10 million since 2016. Fifty million women, children and men are exploited through forms of slavery like forced labor and…