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Members of the Housing and Opportunity Foundation of Kern and nonprofit leaders held a check presentation Thursday, to honor the fundraising achievements of Mukul Anand, a Stockdale high school senior …
Jan. 11—LEWISTON — Gathered at Dufresne Plaza on Wednesday afternoon, nearly 100 people huddled against the cold, shivered and heard some hard truths about human trafficking. It’s not just for far-flung countries or major U.S. cities anymore, they were told. It’s happening here. Over the past year, Safe Voices alone has served more than 100…
Washington—The Senate today passed unanimously a bipartisan resolution introduced by Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) designating January as “National Trafficking and Modern Slavery Prevention Month.” “We can’t ignore the fact that, even in our modern society, sexual exploitation and forced labor continue,” said Senator Feinstein….
Human trafficking is the fastest growing source of profit for organized crime worldwide. Here is how the Commonwealth plans on addressing it. RICHMOND, Va. — The Commission on Human Trafficking Prevention and Survivor Support in Virginia has released its report with recommendations on how to end human trafficking for good in the Commonwealth. Its recommendations focus…
NEW BEDFORD — The 70-year-old cab driver was a friend to her when she needed one. He listened to her and didn’t want anything from her in return. Over time, she felt safe enough to tell him her name and that she was from Massachusetts. He urged her to call her aunt back home, and…
Federal investigators are looking into whether 50 children — some as young as 13 — who were allegedly illegally employed cleaning Midwestern slaughterhouses were victims of labor trafficking, three officials from the Department of Homeland Security told NBC News. Homeland Security Investigations agents have interviewed children who worked cleaning a JBS Foods slaughterhouse in Grand…
Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL) and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) have introduced a bipartisan piece of legislation known as The Human Trafficking and Exploitation Prevention Training Act. The bill looks to “combat human trafficking by educating students about how to properly identify the warning signs. Children account for more than half of all trafficking victims.”…
CLEVELAND — Rachel Socorro is a human trafficking and labor trafficking survivor. “It’s happening right here in our communities; I was trafficked in an upper middle-class community right here in Northeast Ohio,” said Socorro. She was 19 years old, a new mother and was vulnerable when she said a family member trapped in a human…
Author Melissa Hope Ditmore suggests that current political attention on human trafficking is performative rather than practical. In her new book, she makes the case for enforcing and expanding labor laws. There’s an ugly truth about what powers the United States economy, says Melissa Hope Ditmore. Our economic system depends on exploited labor and forced…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Metro Nashville is addressing a rising need for more services for abuse and human trafficking survivors. Councilmembers recently voted to fund more $300,000 to resources for the Office of Family Safety. The funds are coming from the American Rescue Plan Act. It comes at a time when they need more funds…
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