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Organ harvesting: How Daniel di organ harvesting victim & family dey live in fear of revenge – BBC News Pidgin
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Organ harvesting: How Daniel di organ harvesting victim & family dey live in fear of revenge – BBC News Pidgin

Article information Author, Mark Lobel, Kate West and Melanie Stewart-Smith Role, File on 4 27 June 2023 Di decision of one man wey dey experience tough time to waka go one police station near Heathrow Airport, go lead to UK first prosecution of human trafficking for organ removal. Di Metropolitan Police team don give di…

Sara Boyns, Workplace Law: Human trafficking awareness posting and training requirements
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Sara Boyns, Workplace Law: Human trafficking awareness posting and training requirements

Question: As a new small business owner in the hospitality industry, I heard I might have to comply with training, reporting and posting requirements concerning human trafficking. Is this true? If so, what are my legal obligations? Answer: In California specific businesses and establishments are required to post a notice in a conspicuous place near…

Migrants seeking sponsors find questionable offers online – NY1
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Migrants seeking sponsors find questionable offers online – NY1

Pedro Yudel Bruzon was looking for someone in the U.S. to support his effort to seek asylum when he landed on a Facebook page filled with posts demanding up to $10,000 for a financial sponsor. It’s part of an underground market that’s emerged since the Biden administration announced it would accept 30,000 immigrants each month arriving by air…

Local agencies work together to assist human trafficking survivors
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Local agencies work together to assist human trafficking survivors

HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) — There is a renewed push to stop human trafficking in Hampton Roads. January is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month. The Hampton Roads area is high risk for human trafficking since so many people come here for work, coupled with the tourism opportunities. Shannon Taylor, Transitions Family Violence Services anti-human trafficking director, said the signs look…

Home Office unlawfully detains survivor of sexual exploitation
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Home Office unlawfully detains survivor of sexual exploitation

Hope for Justice is a charity working to bring an end to modern slavery and human trafficking, and to protect the human rights of victims and survivors. They are active in the United Kingdom, United States, Cambodia, Norway, Australia, Ethiopia and Uganda. Their multi-disciplinary model is based on four pillars: preventing exploitation; rescuing victims; restoring lives;…

FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Hires Ghislaine Maxwell Defense Lawyer
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FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Hires Ghislaine Maxwell Defense Lawyer

Sam Bankman-Fried, the embattled co-founder of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, has retained New York defense attorney Mark Cohen to represent him. Sam Bankman-Fried, the embattled co-founder of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, has retained New York defense attorney Mark Cohen to represent him, according to Bankman-Fried’s spokesperson Mark Botnick. Cohen was previously part of the team…

The UK government is undermining decades of anti-slavery efforts
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The UK government is undermining decades of anti-slavery efforts

More broadly, framing slavery as something which people lie about to gain an advantage will affect the way in which victims are treated, and categorising slavery as an immigration matter risks changing the understanding of who can be trafficked. It makes it less likely that UK nationals will be identified, or that they will engage…

Couple awarded £20k over police failure to investigate trafficking
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Couple awarded £20k over police failure to investigate trafficking

Hope for Justice is a charity working to bring an end to modern slavery and human trafficking, and to protect the human rights of victims and survivors. They are active in the United Kingdom, United States, Cambodia, Norway, Australia, Ethiopia and Uganda. Their multi-disciplinary model is based on four pillars: preventing exploitation; rescuing victims; restoring lives;…

Legal aid funding system fails trafficking survivors
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Legal aid funding system fails trafficking survivors

A new report by the Anti Trafficking Labour and Exploitation Unit (ATLEU) published this week reveals the devastating consequences of the lack of access to legal aid for many survivors of trafficking and modern-day slavery.   Legal aid exists to help those who cannot afford to pay for legal costs to access legal advice, family mediation…

The third stage of the New Labor Justice System in Mexico begins – Lexology
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The third stage of the New Labor Justice System in Mexico begins – Lexology

Editor’s note: 7.4 is key information (From below) 7. It will not be necessary to exhaust the previous conciliation stage in matters in which the workers’ claim is based on: Discrimination in employment and occupation due to pregnancy, as well as for reasons of sex, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnic origin, social status or harassment…