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OAN’s Taylor Tinsley 2:10 PM – Wednesday, July 12, 2023 The Justice Department has made changes to what it considers are areas of concern. The DOJ made recent modifications to its website under the section that listed the department’s subject areas of concern regarding ‘‘Child Sex Trafficking’.” “International Sex Trafficking of Minors,” “Domestic Sex Trafficking of…
A bill which establishes penalties for attempted human trafficking passed the Legislative Yuan Friday, with offenders to face up to seven years in prison. The newly passed amendments to the Human Trafficking Prevention Act stipulate that those who attempt to use force, threats, intimidation or fraud, to recruit, trade, take into bondage, transport, deliver, receive,…
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…
South Africa, according to a United States (US) Department of State report, does not fully meet minimum standards to eliminate human trafficking but makes “significant efforts” to do so. The plus side of the equation includes convicting and sentencing people found guilty of trafficking to substantial jail sentences. These include government officials complicit in trafficking….
More broadly, framing slavery as something which people lie about to gain an advantage will affect the way in which victims are treated, and categorising slavery as an immigration matter risks changing the understanding of who can be trafficked. It makes it less likely that UK nationals will be identified, or that they will engage…
Although the number of recorded victims of human trafficking in the Netherlands decreased by around 22% between 2020 and 2021, experts say this only means the victims are less visible and claim that now human traffickers are targeting Dutch people the most. In 2021, the Netherlands identified 791 new victims of trafficking compared to 1013…
According to the Global Slavery Index 2018, 10 countries with the largest estimated absolute numbers of people in modern slavery include some of the world’s most populous were these 10 countries – India, China, Pakistan, North Korea, Nigeria, Iran, Indonesia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Russia, and the Philippines – account for 60 percent of…
Editor’s note: Our Human Trafficking Essentials course promotes the average age of entry into sex trafficking as 17, based upon the below research. The below makes clear there are no studies that demonstrate that age in a truly measurable manner. Our materials make clear that the statistics in the human trafficking field are difficult to…
Turks and Caicos Islands was mentioned three times in the US State Department’s 2022 Trafficking in Persons Report, but the country has not been accused therein of human trafficking. The report, which was released in July 2022, mentioned Turks and Caicos Islands in relation to Colombia, Haiti and Cuba. In relation to Cuba, the report…
As the United Nations prepares to commemorate World Day Against Trafficking in Persons July 30, a team of U.S. federal investigators from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) are in Frankfurt, Germany, this week to train German law enforcement counterparts on the latest investigative techniques to combat human trafficking. U.S. Mission Germany hosted…
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