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By Louisa Borg Haviara Human trafficking is divided into forced labour and sex trafficking. According to the latest Global Slavery index (2018) over 40 million men, women or children, are current victims of modern slavery with women and girls being disproportionately vulnerable, accounting for 71 per cent of all victims. The Cyprus justice ministry welcomed the upgrading of…
By Ryan Michaels The Birmingham Times The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations says 34 arrests were made for commercial sex and six arrests for human trafficking during The World Games, which ended Sunday in Birmingham. The task force also made eight arrests of adults seeking online enticement of a minor and/or traveling to meet a…
This research has culminated in their first report, “Esports: Exploring the Risks of Human Trafficking and Exploitation of Children in the Gaming Industry”. It contains a thorough review of the pertinent discussions around the trafficking and exploitation of children online, the vulnerabilities and susceptibilities that children and the field of sports face, and a review…
There has been an increase in reported human trafficking cases in the country, a study by ActionAid Ghana has indicated. It found an 46-per cent increase in reported human trafficking cases between 2020 and 2021. The study, titled: “Baseline study on combatting modern slavery in Ghana project (CMSP)”, also showed that 80 per cent of…
Human trafficking is a horrific crime and “an all-out assault on people’s rights, safety and dignity,” Secretary-General António Guterres said on Friday, the eve of World Day Against Trafficking in Persons.
The U.K. is failing to provide adequate support for trafficking victims, according to the 2022 Trafficking in Persons report. The report is particularly critical of how the government penalizes victims who […]
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While it may seem incomprehensible today, some 40 million people worldwide fall under a modern definition of slavery. Chattel slavery, where one person owns another person, is illegal worldwide, but modern slavery includes such practices as forced labor, debt bondage, human trafficking, and forced marriage. Nearly 62% (24.9 million) of people living in modern slavery…
World Day Against Trafficking in Persons is recognized annually on July 30. Since its inception in 2013, the day has been sanctioned as an opportunity for “raising awareness of the situation of victims of human trafficking and for the promotion and protection of their rights” (United Nations resolution). The fastest-growing criminal industry in the world…
A recent report has shed new light on how temporary work visa programs providing migrant laborers with employment in the United States are ripe for abuse, often leading to forced labor and other forms of human trafficking. Between January 2018 and December 2020, the Polaris Project’s National Human Trafficking Hotline identified almost 16,000 labor trafficking…
SAN ANTONIO – A new report by the Human Trafficking Institute in Washington, D.C., a non-governmental organization that has issued trafficking reports every year since 2000, is giving insight into the fluctuating numbers of victims and cases across the nation. The reports include every single human trafficking case brought to federal courts nationwide. “We seek to decimate…
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