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LISTEN: Lisbeth Iglesias-Ríos on advocating for migrant farmworkers’ rights
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LISTEN: Lisbeth Iglesias-Ríos on advocating for migrant farmworkers’ rights

Dr. Lisbeth Iglesias-Ríos joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss why we must advocate for better workplace conditions for the people who grow our food.  Iglesias-Ríos, researcher at the University of Michigan and a co-investigator of the Michigan Farmworker Project, also talks about being raised by two strong women, her winding…

Q&A: California’s uninterrupted history of slavery
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Q&A: California’s uninterrupted history of slavery

Slavery is often associated with the South. A new book shifts the narrative West. “California, a Slave State,” details 250 years of slavery and slave revolts in California. KPBS reporter Katie Hyson spoke with the book’s author, Jean Pfaelzer, a public historian and University of Delaware professor, about slavery throughout the state’s history, and how…

Valentine’s Day and Human Trafficking: Love Weaponized for Exploitation
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Valentine’s Day and Human Trafficking: Love Weaponized for Exploitation

From zip ties to car seats to perfumed roses, there are a lot of scary rumors out there about how people get recruited into human trafficking. None of them are true – at least that is what we have learned after 15 years of operating the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline. But the reality is,…

Child sex trafficking report shows cases tied to half of Mecklenburg's zip codes – WCNC
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Child sex trafficking report shows cases tied to half of Mecklenburg's zip codes – WCNC

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In the halls of Present Age Ministries‘ Concord offices, portrait after portrait lines the walls. At first, the pictures are unassuming — each one shows a girl, holding flowers. In some, the flowers cover the girl’s face. In others, the girl has her back turned to the camera. To the viewer, they…

Officials Allege Illegal Child Labor at JBS Slaughterhouses – PETA
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Officials Allege Illegal Child Labor at JBS Slaughterhouses – PETA

Warning: images of animal processing BREAKING: Federal officials found that at least 31 children as young as 13 were allegedly employed illegally as night sanitation workers at slaughterhouses in the Midwest—including JBS Foods slaughterhouses in Grand Island, Nebraska, and Worthington, Minnesota. The children were allegedly working in hazardous conditions. Investigators found that some worked at…

LETTERS: Expert to speak on human trafficking | Palm Coast Observer
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LETTERS: Expert to speak on human trafficking | Palm Coast Observer

Expert to speak on human trafficking Dear Editor: January is National Human Trafficking Awareness month, and the Flagler Tiger Bay Club welcomes Tomas Lares, award-winning advocate and leader of United Abolitionists, as our luncheon speaker at the Hammock Dunes Club on Thursday, Jan. 19. We don’t see much human trafficking in Flagler County, just like…

Odisha Government Provide Rs 367.19 Cr For Production Of Button Mushroom and High Value Flowers
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Odisha Government Provide Rs 367.19 Cr For Production Of Button Mushroom and High Value Flowers

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Cabinet today approved a provision of Rs 367.19 crore for five years from 2022-23 to 2026-27 for implementation of the State Sector Scheme-“Empowerment of Women in Agriculture-Promotion of Entrepreneurship for Women SHG”, said an official press release. The scheme has been introduced with the objective to double the mushroom production across the State…

Innocence Sold: ‘Kidnapping, human trafficking, murder.’ What happened to missing teen Sophie Reeder?
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Innocence Sold: ‘Kidnapping, human trafficking, murder.’ What happened to missing teen Sophie Reeder?

Third of four parts. It was after midnight, and her father was asleep. Fifteen-year-old Sophie Reeder slipped out of her Fort Lauderdale home wearing a short black skirt, high-top sneakers, a leopard-print coat and headphones. Her hair was neatly twisted into side buns. She took nothing with her. In her bedroom, she left a stack…

The dark side of the flower sector: the growing exploitation of women in Kenya
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The dark side of the flower sector: the growing exploitation of women in Kenya

03 November 2022 In our latest blog, Eunice Waweru from Workers’ Rights Watch (WRW) – Anti-Slavery International partner in Kenya – exposes the exploitation of women in the flower industry in Kenya. Image credit: SL-Photography vis Shutterstock. Buying flowers can be a great way to express love and friendship, or to simply brighten up a…