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‘Human Trafficking’ most ‘Abhorrent Crime’
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‘Human Trafficking’ most ‘Abhorrent Crime’

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Mahadeep Singh JamwalHuman trafficking means ‘Trade of Humans’ (Men, Women including Children). Trafficking in human beings is not only one of the most abhorrent crimes challenging today but it is also one of the most complex ones. The United Nations defines ‘Human Trafficking’ as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons by means…

History of labor trafficking
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History of labor trafficking

ByEyes on Trafficking News

ARIZONA, La. (KTAL/KMSS) –   The kids ran circles around the old brick chimney, yelling “You’re it,” at one another until they tired and headed back to the front porch of the crumbling mansion—but if the children had known the truth about the chimney in the middle of that Claiborne Parish field, would they have used…

Inside Nigeria's thriving, quick-fire sale 'baby factories' – The East African
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Inside Nigeria's thriving, quick-fire sale 'baby factories' – The East African

ByEyes on Trafficking News

By MOHAMMED MOMOH Nigeria police thought they had wiped out the baby factory menace. That was until a 17-year-old was caught in homestead where he was ‘assigned’ to impregnate ten young women in Nigeria’s Rivers State. The boy was just a stud or a “breeder”. The crackdown in Obio/Akpor last month also saw two women…

John Brown’s Subterranean Pass-Way
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John Brown’s Subterranean Pass-Way

ByBilly Joe Cain

Read FERGUS M. BORDEWICH’s original post, from January 14th, 2006. JOHN BROWN believed that God himself had ordained him to bring an end to slavery. Achieving his goal hinged on a radical and deeply secret scheme: the establishment of an “Underground Pass-Way” that would extend the Underground Railroad more than a thousand miles southward through…

ERO Miami returns 2 fugitives wanted for human trafficking, sexual exploitation in Mexico
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ERO Miami returns 2 fugitives wanted for human trafficking, sexual exploitation in Mexico

ByEyes on Trafficking News

MIAMI – Two Venezuelan nationals wanted by law enforcement authorities in Mexico for human trafficking and sex exploitation were turned over to Mexican law enforcement authorities Dec. 28, by officers with Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Miami. Arianny Paola Vega-Escalona, 24, and Yubisay Delimar Sandoval Sequera, 32, departed Miami International Airport to their destination of…

Anchor House Coffee: Igniting the Power of Community to Help End Slavery
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Anchor House Coffee: Igniting the Power of Community to Help End Slavery

ByEyes on Trafficking News

About an hour outside of Seattle, in the little town of Buckley, Washington, a coffee shop makes a global impact in the fight against modern slavery. Walking into the large house-like building on Main Street, you’ll see high ceilings with chandeliers, hardwood floors, and a bright, minimalist aesthetic featuring white tile and greenery. There’s probably…

Locked Up: The prison labor that built business empires
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Locked Up: The prison labor that built business empires

ByEyes on Trafficking News

More than 150 years ago, a prison complex known as the Lone Rock stockade operated at one of the biggest coal mines in Tennessee. It was powered largely by African American men who had been arrested for minor offenses — like stealing a hog — if they committed any crime at all. Women and children,…

International efforts to end human trafficking – Lewiston Sun Journal
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International efforts to end human trafficking – Lewiston Sun Journal

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Human trafficking, also known as “trafficking in persons,” is not new. I’m particularly concerned about trafficked children. In early America, orphaned Irish children were bought to become workers on homesteads and in brothels and pubs. In the 1950s, Native American children in South Dakota were bought for ten dollars. Many were kidnapped, abused, and then…