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This is, John Sweeney explains in his introduction, a fairytale told in reverse. The princess Ghislaine Maxwell starts out in a palace and ends up in prison. There are two ogres in the narrative — Ghislaine’s father, Robert Maxwell, a sadistic fraudster, and her former lover Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted paedophile. “She lost everything when…
She’s much more comfortable now in her slightly more permanent digs of Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Tallahassee, the impeccably Oxford-educated 80s It-Girl and convicted felon Ghislaine Maxwell. She can bend the language to elide damning detail while seeming to offer it, she can paint an image with shadows of connotation and denotation. Mainly, though, the…
“The existing social order is a swindle and its cherished beliefs mostly delusions.” – George Orwell Human trafficking is an issue that takes many forms and typologies across the world and society. Traditionally, human trafficking is thought of as falling into one of two categories: sex trafficking, trafficking in persons for commercial sexual exploitation, or…
Ghislaine Maxwell has spoken from a US prison of her “dear friend” Prince Andrew, and told of how she “feels bad” for how he has been treated. Maxwell’s comments, published in the Mail on Sunday in her first lengthy interview since her December conviction on sex trafficking charges, will heap fresh embarrassment on the Duke…
A British cyclist is riding between several cities on the east coast of America during October to “show a red card” to people trafficking in sport. Gordon Miller, from London, began his campaign in Charlottesville, Virginia on October 5 heading south towards North Carolina. He hopes to complete the ride in Washington DC on October…
Police visited 57 premises across the Thames Valley and gave advice to over 50 people during a three-week operation targeting modern slavery. Thames Valley Police, working with the National Crime Agency (NCA) and Europol, focused activity on massage parlours under Project Aidant, an NCA-led law-enforcement response. The operation took place between 22 August and 9 September and was Europe-wide,…
Abstract Armed conflicts leave populations vulnerable to organ trafficking, a criminal enterprise with little international regulation when viewed separately from human trafficking. The Council of Europe’s Convention against Trafficking in Human Organs is the only instrument to contemplate the responsibility of actors involved in organ trafficking, but traffickers may go unpunished due to its limited…
(Getty Images) Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. It’s 2022, and five states have ballot initiatives to abolish slavery. Yes, you read that right. In the “land of the free,” the states of Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee and Vermont have an opportunity to…
Experts hope the running star’s revelations will humanize migrants’ struggles, but they don’t expect policy changes in a country that is trying to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda. LONDON — The harrowing revelation by Mo Farah, the Olympic track and field star, that he was trafficked to Britain as a young child has reverberated…
PRINCE Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell had an “intimate relationship” which gave the socialite “unrestricted access” to Buckingham Palace, a former Royal cop has claimed. Maxwell and The Duke of York’s relationship is coming under intense scrutiny as she was jailed this week for 20 years for her role in grooming girls for paedophile multimillionaire Jeffrey…
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