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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…
SEATAC, Wash. – Homeland Security agents rescued nine victims of a sex trafficking operation near the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport early February. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the investigative armed of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, identified several commercial sex trafficking victims and suspects through an undercover operation with the King County Sheriff’s Office, City of…
1. Mayhem “Everybody who works at Hickman’s, get up! Pack your stuff—you’re being moved today!” Corrections officers swarmed the Santa Rosa Unit at the Perryville women’s prison in Goodyear, Arizona, barking orders and handing out trash bags for belongings. Many women were alarmed. We’re being moved to Hickman’s? How? The officers weren’t sharing a lot…
02/10/2023 11:23 AM SOMERVILLE, NJ – Learn about human trafficking in New Jersey and how to help prevent it through education and advocacy. Somerset County’s Office of Youth Services division will host the webinar “Human Trafficking 101” on Friday, Feb. 24, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Professional development credits are available. Registration is required in…
Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Tuesday, Feb. 14. I’m Suhauna Hussain, a reporter on the L.A. Times business desk. I write about issues affecting workers. I have a heavy topic to cover today: Dalit caste discrimination. Formerly known as untouchables, Dalits fall at the bottom of a centuries-old South Asian…
“Human trafficking is an enormously prevalent form of human rights abuse happening in the United States right now,” said Myriah Mhoon, CEO of New Life Center, one of Arizona’s largest domestic violence and sexual assault shelters. “It takes many forms including forced labor, debt bondage, domestic servitude, forced child labor, sex trafficking and child sex…
As in legislative sessions past, The Nevada Independent is publishing a series of profiles featuring the new lawmakers in the state. This is the ninth installment of more than a dozen. Check back in coming days for additional stories on new legislators’ backgrounds, interests and policy positions. ASSEMBLYMAN TOBY YUREK The freshman Republican born in…
More than a decade after being indicted for allegedly being in possession of possessing child sexual abuse material, a 51-year-old Lynn man was arrested in the Dominican Republic on Friday, said the U.S. Attorney’s office for Massachusetts. Melchor Datu, who is originally from the Philippines, was arrested in a joint effort between special agents and…
Joint Statement 11 February 2023 The Eighth Ministerial Conference and Third Government and Business Forum of the Bali Process on People Smuggling, Trafficking in Persons and Related Transnational Crime (Bali Process) co-chaired by the Foreign Ministers of Indonesia and Australia were held in Adelaide, Australia, 10 February 2023. The meetings reviewed developments in the Bali…
TULSA, Okla. — Sex trafficking is a crime that happens all over the world, and right here in Tulsa. FOX23 Investigative Reporter Janna Clark looks into how it can look different here than in other countries, and what as parents you need to look out for. Janna is part of a Tulsa team that just…
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