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More Than 50 Million People Globally Are Now Trapped in Modern Slavery: ILO Report
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More Than 50 Million People Globally Are Now Trapped in Modern Slavery: ILO Report

“Forced me to clean or else she will kill me.“ “I had to leave the situation or be killed. I know I can never return home because I am considered a dead person for breaking the culture and bringing shame to the families. According to my father, I am dead.“ The first account voices the…

Agricultural Labor Trafficking | State | willistonherald.com
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Agricultural Labor Trafficking | State | willistonherald.com

When many people think of human trafficking they think of it in terms of human trafficking for sex, but there are also growing concerns about labor trafficking. The Bakken Human Panning Summit Committee chaired by Shaun Schatz of the McKenzie County Sheriff’s Office and Marcia Hellandsaas with NDSU Extension/McKenzie County always ask communities when preparing…

Organ Harvesting’s Troubled Past — and Complicated Present
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Organ Harvesting’s Troubled Past — and Complicated Present

At an international conference on kidney transplantation in 1963, a disagreement broke out about exactly when a patient should be considered dead enough to become an organ donor. One doctor stood up, angrily declaring that he was not “going to just wait around for the medical examiner to declare the patient dead. I’m just going…