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How torture, inaction underpin UAE’s thriving sex trafficking industry African women trafficked into the UAE are forced into debt and subjected to threats and violence, as they are kept in sexual slavery. The case of Christy Gold, who has been charged with sex trafficking in Nigeria, highlights the torment endured by these women in the…
Recent stories of migrant children working long hours and under dangerous conditions in the United States have shed light on how pervasive migrant child labor has become in this country. In December, Reuters published the third part of a year-long investigation about migrant children as young as 12 working in Alabama chicken plants and in…
Read our campaign field report. In a win for the Freedom United community, this week the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Bill comes into force, criminalizing child marriage in England and Wales. A win for the Freedom United community With our partners at IKWRO, Forward, Karma Nirvana, Independent Yemen Group and Girls Not Brides,…
Last year, voters in Vermont, Oregon, Tennessee and Alabama approved historic ballot measures that removed slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for crime from their state constitutions, which could lead to limitations on forced prison labor. They joined a growing list of states that passed similar initiatives in recent years, including Nebraska, Utah and Colorado….
“Survivor leaders are too often viewed as incapable of learning or doing effective anti-trafficking work, and they are tokenised in ways that deny them the opportunities and respect afforded to other anti-trafficking professionals,” says Chris Ash, the Survivor Leadership Program Manager at the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking. In their powerful article for…
Mega-influencer Andrew Tate is once again back in the news as he battles charges of organised crime and human trafficking in Romania. Tate gained infamy last year after being banned on most major social media platforms for promoting a variety of aggressively misogynistic positions designed to stir controversy and draw attention to his brand. But…
Eva Dickerson has spent her life thinking about food. Not just about what to eat, but more specifically what it means to have access to food, to groceries and space to grow crops. “Food access might ask why there isn’t a grocery store in someone’s neighborhood,” Dickerson, 26, said, “but food apartheid might ask who…
A 42-year-old Long Beach man was arrested and charged with human trafficking and pimping two women, authorities announced Thursday. Darrell Elder was arrested Jan. 31 after a weeklong investigation in Anaheim, according to a news release from the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force. Authorities said they contacted a woman believed to be a sex worker…
By Paula Peterson SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – The topic of human trafficking becomes a common headline during Super Bowl week and a recent social media post in South Lake Tahoe has unveiled the need for a better understanding of the topic. The Polaris Project is a non-profit dedicated to the support of human trafficking…
Louis Weathers didn’t know what to think when he heard he was going to receive reparations for slavery. He had listened to people talking about reparations — people such as Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton — during the two decades he’d lived in Washington DC. But it was always couched as a demand, or an aspiration:…
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