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A recent UN report reveals hundreds of thousands of vulnerable migrants have been forced to participate in online scams. It confirms allegations made in a previous FBI report. The new report by the United Nations Human Rights Office has exposed the full scale of horrific human rights abuses taking place inside Southeast Asia’s shadowy network of…
The BBC recounts the findings from a UN report that details how hundreds of thousands of people from around the world are lured to Southeast Asia through false promises and then trafficked to run online scams under severe threat. “People who have been trafficked into online forced criminality… are subject to torture and cruel inhuman…
I’ll never forget something that advocate and former farmworker Leticia Zavala said to me during an interview. “There is slavery in the fields of North Carolina.” She said it almost in passing, as part of a larger laundry list of abusive and deadly conditions experienced by farmworkers in the state as part of the H-2A…
Human trafficking activists on the steps of the New Hanover County Courthouse on Aug. 27, 2023. (Amelia McNeese) On Aug. 27, a group of demonstrators participated in a visual performance to address human trafficking in the port city. The demonstration took place on the steps of the courthouse, and its purpose was to bring awareness…
It’s still unclear whether Turkmenistan has the political will to root out forced labor from its own cotton fields, Allison Gill, forced labor program director at the Global Labor Justice-International Labor Rights Forum, told Sourcing Journal Monday. Gill, whose organization hosts the Cotton Campaign, a multistakeholder initiative that aims to eliminate state-sponsored forced labor in…
Montana state officials praise fire crew with prison inmates; national report, ACLU question pay Keila SzpallerAugust 27, 2023 Daily Montanan (read original here) The Montana Department of Corrections deployed 15 inmates and three correctional officers to help fight a wildfire in the state earlier this month, the DOC said in a news release. The inmates…
Posted: August 23, 2023 Updated: 10:13 AM KUSI Newsroom San Diego County, known for its beauty and promise, is now marred by the grim reality of human trafficking. According to the FBI, San Diego is one of the country’s 13 hotspots for human trafficking. A study by the University of San Diego and Point Loma Nazarene…
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Portuguese maritime police investigate one of two sites where hundreds of human trafficking victims, mostly migrants from Southeast Asia, were found near Lisbon June 21, 2023. (OSV News photo/Miguel Pereira, Reuters) LONDON (OSV News) — Human trafficking doesn’t happen only in far away places where human rights are neglected. It happens around the corner. It’s…
When undocumented clients come into Mayra Rodriguez-Alvarez’s office, they discover quickly why she calls herself “the nosy lawyer.” After becoming interested in human trafficking in 2022, the Hammond immigration attorney made it a mission of hers to determine whether her clients are also being trafficked, she told a room of more than 200 during the…
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