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Gardai said they are stepping up efforts to tackle human trafficking across the country, after it carried it out two days of action targeting crime gangs. Properties in Dublin, Waterford, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Longford, Galway, Kildare, Donegal and Louth were searched. As part of the operation, 46 people were identified as having allegedly purchased sexual…
We urgently need a new UK law to hold companies and the public sector to account when they fail to prevent human rights abuses and environmental harms in their global value chains. Nothing illustrates how broken the global procurement system is better than examining who gets what and how, at the top and the bottom…
U.S. District Court Judge R. Austin Huffaker Jr. of the Middle District of Alabama sentenced defendant Lonnie Mitchell, 36, of Montgomery, Alabama, to 60 years in prison for coercing several victims, including a minor, to engage in prostitution over the course of several years. The judge also ordered the defendant to pay over $950,000 in…
Authorities in Portugal have arrested a total of 35 people on human trafficking charges in addition to allegations of money laundering and falsifying documents. Dozens of migrants were reported to have fallen prey to the trafficking ring. The suspects reprimanded by the police include both Portuguese nationals and others from other parts of Europe. They…
Thirty-five people suspected of involvement in human trafficking have been arrested in a massive operation that mobilized around 400 officers in Portugal’s southern Alentejo region, Portuguese police said on Wednesday. A total of 65 raids were carried out, resulting in the arrest of alleged members of a human trafficking ring that illegally brought migrants to…
Foreign workers (migrant workers) for defense contractors on at least four U.S. military bases in the Persian Gulf are trapped in their jobs by abusive employment practices that they say prevent them from returning home or even looking for better work in the region, more than 30 current and former workers said in interviews. Many…
Tampa, FL – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the results achieved to date by the Middle District of Florida to combat human trafficking. This includes trafficking of minors, forced labor, and sex trafficking of adults by force, fraud, or coercion. During fiscal year 2022, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of…
Editor’s note: the term “illegal” should be “undocumented,” as a person cannot be illegal. Being without documentation is a potential red flag of human trafficking, so in each case, these people may be in need of help. The sordid, sophisticated, and profitable business of illegal migration is exposed in the indictments of several people who…
The Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP Office) is pleased to announce seven new awards under the Program to End Modern Slavery (PEMS). Starting October 1, 2022, these programs will implement innovative and transformative approaches to combat human trafficking, including a focus on financial inclusion in Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe; climate and displacement…
Samantha* wants her name on the mortgage for the home she is planning to buy with her partner. It doesn’t seem like too much to ask. She went to college, has a steady six-figure income, and has worked hard to earn this house. But Samantha is a survivor of human trafficking and like many survivors,…
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