Risk Factor

A risk factor is something that increases the likelihood of an individual or population experiencing a particular outcome or event. Risk factors can be related to a wide range of issues, including health, safety, and financial security. For example, some common risk factors for developing heart disease include high blood pressure, obesity, and a sedentary lifestyle. Risk factors can be used to identify individuals or populations who are more likely to experience a particular outcome, and can help guide efforts to prevent or mitigate that outcome.

Bringing awareness to human trafficking
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Bringing awareness to human trafficking

HENDERSON — Whether through her work as a founder of the local nonprofit Gang Free Inc. or serving as a Henderson city councilwoman, Melissa Elliott has become one of the most publicly visible figures in the area when it comes to raising awareness for issues that impact disadvantaged communities especially. With a reputation for outspokenness,…

IOM and Microsoft release first-ever differentially private synthetic dataset to counter human trafficking
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IOM and Microsoft release first-ever differentially private synthetic dataset to counter human trafficking

Microsoft is home to a diverse team of researchers focused on supporting a healthy global society, including finding ways technology can address human rights problems affecting the most vulnerable populations around the world. With a multi-disciplinary background in human-computer interaction, data science, and the social sciences, the research team partners with community, governmental, and nongovernmental organizations…

Understanding, Preventing, and Responding to Human Trafficking
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Understanding, Preventing, and Responding to Human Trafficking

Listen to the original podcast here. Justice Today Podcast Human trafficking is an issue without a simple solution, but research on this problem is helping victims and developing tools and information to help better understand, prevent, and respond to trafficking. NIJ Scientist Mary Carlton joins host Josh Mondoro, Communications Assistant at NIJ, for a discussion…

Enhancing the fight against human trafficking in the Granite State
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Enhancing the fight against human trafficking in the Granite State

   Darlene Pawlik vividly remembers the moment her 14-year-old self was taken to Plaistow, N.H., by a physician – not for medical treatment, but for sex. Pawlik had just been bought by this older man. “So, why are you doing this?” he asked. “Uh – just bored, nothing else to do,” Pawlik said. But it was not boredom that…

COUNTY THE FIRST TO OFFER PREVENTION TRAINING FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING
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COUNTY THE FIRST TO OFFER PREVENTION TRAINING FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING

November 3, 2022 4:00 a.m. Douglas County will be the first county in the state to have the ability to offer human trafficking prevention instruction to all of its 6th to 12th grade students A Mercy Foundation release said of the thousands of applications, in 2019, the Douglas County Human Trafficking Task Force was one…

AG Moody launches 2022 Human Trafficking Summit, registration still open
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AG Moody launches 2022 Human Trafficking Summit, registration still open

Other 2022 Human Trafficking Summit related articles here. (The Center Square) – A Florida-led virtual 2022 Human Trafficking Summit launched Tuesday nationwide, engaging experts from across the country to collaborate on ways to more effectively combat human trafficking. More than 2,300 attendees registered and registration remains open at HumanTraffickingSummit.com. The summit provides over 16 hours…

New Efforts Emerge to Combat Human Trafficking in Houston – USA Herald
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New Efforts Emerge to Combat Human Trafficking in Houston – USA Herald

Many people think most cases of trafficking involve masked men pulling an unwilling woman or girl into a van against her will. In actuality, this is not the most common means by which human trafficking occurs. Oftentimes, traffickers form bonds with their victims before coercing them into sexual servitude, forced labor, etc. Victims of trafficking…

A21 Hosts "Walk For Freedom" to Raise Awareness About Human Trafficking – USA Herald
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A21 Hosts "Walk For Freedom" to Raise Awareness About Human Trafficking – USA Herald

Traffickers feed on fear and ignorance to commit their crimes against humanity. Furthermore, these predators are turning to the internet to find victims. Traffickers will often pose as friends or even romantic partners before revealing their true colors. The only thing standing between slavery and freedom are the actions of ordinary people like us–doing our…

Home Office makes modern slavery an illegal immigration issue in ‘highly regressive’ move
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Home Office makes modern slavery an illegal immigration issue in ‘highly regressive’ move

The Home Office has reclassified modern slavery as an immigration issue instead of a safeguarding concern in what Hope for Justice describes as a “highly regressive” move. It follows claims from the Home Secretary last week that modern slavery laws are being abused and “derailing the UK’s policy on illegal migration.” The Home Office has…

Fighting slavery: Human trafficking is target of NCSU computer modeling project
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Fighting slavery: Human trafficking is target of NCSU computer modeling project

  Editor’s note: Each week WRAL TechWire focuses its Innovation Thursday report on companies, people and technology that could make a big difference in our collective future. +++ RALEIGH – Researchers from North Carolina State University collaborated with a counter-human trafficking organization, Global Emancipation Network, to develop computational models that can help fight human trafficking. The models…