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The Value of Collaboration in Addressing Commercial Sexual Exploitation, from Prevention and Awareness to Supporting Healing and Everything in Between
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The Value of Collaboration in Addressing Commercial Sexual Exploitation, from Prevention and Awareness to Supporting Healing and Everything in Between

ByBilly Joe Cain

From the Office of the Texas Governor | Greg Abbott | Child Sex Trafficking – Archived Webinars Presented on January 24, 2023 Lubbock organizations One Voice Home, Open Door, and Voice of Hope as they discuss how they have partnered to elevate awareness about Human Trafficking in the area and through this partnership are providing…

What the survivors of human trafficking deserve – New York Daily News
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What the survivors of human trafficking deserve – New York Daily News

ByEyes on Trafficking News

In our adversarial legal system, prosecutors and public defenders don’t often see eye to eye. But as the Manhattan district attorney and veteran attorneys for the Legal Aid Society, we agree on this: Survivors of human trafficking should not be criminalized. A 2021 state law gives judges wide discretion to free trafficking survivors from the…

NYC human trafficking victims forced into prostitution, fraud desperately seek a way out of the shadows
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NYC human trafficking victims forced into prostitution, fraud desperately seek a way out of the shadows

ByEyes on Trafficking News

What they have in common are tragically similar circumstances that primed them for victimization: They were vulnerable, desperate, and fell under the control and manipulation of human traffickers who …

Missing Girl, 17, Likely Victim of Sex Trafficking, Located in Wakefield Motel
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Missing Girl, 17, Likely Victim of Sex Trafficking, Located in Wakefield Motel

ByEyes on Trafficking News

By SÍLE MOLONEY A NONPROFIT REPRESENTATIVE located a 17-year-old girl, who police say had been reported missing from Brooklyn, in the Metro Motel, located at 691 East 241st Street in the Wakefield section of The Bronx, on Saturday, July 23, 2022. According to the nonprofit representative, the teen is a likely victim of sex trafficking….

Guest Worker Visas and Labor Trafficking: Weaknesses in the H2 Visa Programs
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Guest Worker Visas and Labor Trafficking: Weaknesses in the H2 Visa Programs

ByAdam Zarnowski

Exploitation is practically written into immigration and foreign labor policy Original document: March 12, 2022 We offer this article in audio form. It’s generated by a program; apologies for any weirdness. Introduction Where immigration policy and anti-human trafficking initiatives meet, loopholes are often created that allow for the continued exploitation and trafficking of foreign laborers…

New York is using prison labor to make emergency hand sanitizer
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New York is using prison labor to make emergency hand sanitizer

ByEyes on Trafficking News

“This is nothing less than slave labor and it must end.” 100,000 Gallons New York governor Andrew Cuomo has an idea to tackle a hand sanitizer shortage, The New York Times reports: use prison labor to make more of the stuff. Cuomo has enlisted the help of Corcraft, New York’s prison-based product company to produce about…