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Human Trafficking is Modern-Day Slavery That Can Happen Just Around the Corner, Say Advocates for Victims – The Tablet
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Human Trafficking is Modern-Day Slavery That Can Happen Just Around the Corner, Say Advocates for Victims – The Tablet

Portuguese maritime police investigate one of two sites where hundreds of human trafficking victims, mostly migrants from Southeast Asia, were found near Lisbon June 21, 2023. (OSV News photo/Miguel Pereira, Reuters) LONDON (OSV News) — Human trafficking doesn’t happen only in far away places where human rights are neglected. It happens around the corner. It’s…

Tri-Cities event aims to protect children from human trafficking
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Tri-Cities event aims to protect children from human trafficking

Mar. 3 — A family-friend Tri-Cities event is planned Saturday to raise money to protect children from human trafficking. The Shine a Light Through the Night fundraiser includes s’mores, hot beverages, a fire truck, games and prizes. The Columbia Center Rotary event is 4 to 6:30 p.m. at the club’s parking lot and event center…

RG24seven to run human trafficking courses
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RG24seven to run human trafficking courses

RG24seven, the training platform for gaming employees, has partnered with the US Department of Homeland Security Blue Campaign to provide a series of human trafficking awareness training courses. These training courses – and all of RG24seven’s training content – are entirely free to use for gaming company employees. Wendy Anderson, CEO of RG24seven, stated: “We…

Operation Underground Railroad Works with Abuse Relief Corps to Fight Sexual … – EIN News
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Operation Underground Railroad Works with Abuse Relief Corps to Fight Sexual … – EIN News

Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R) partners with the Abuse Relief Corps (ARC) to fight sexual abuse and child sex trafficking in Ghana. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, UNITED STATES, March 9, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ — Abuse Relief Corps (ARC), a non-governmental organisation committed to fighting sexual abuse and child sex trafficking in Ghana has officially become Operation Underground…

Hospitality, tourism, sports industries come together to fight human trafficking – KGUN 9
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Hospitality, tourism, sports industries come together to fight human trafficking – KGUN 9

PHOENIX — Alicia Tucker, a survivor of human trafficking and a mother, stood in front of a room full of individuals all fighting for the same thing: eradicating human trafficking. Tucker told her story to a crowd for the first time last week, recalling being 15 years old working at a hair salon and being…

Senate Passes 'National Trafficking and Modern Slavery Prevention Month' Resolution
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Senate Passes 'National Trafficking and Modern Slavery Prevention Month' Resolution

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….

MAKE A DIFFERENCE: Sidewalk Soldiers fight human trafficking
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MAKE A DIFFERENCE: Sidewalk Soldiers fight human trafficking

It’s big news that in February, this organization is opening Miami Valley’s first drop-in center to serve folks being sexually exploited or participating in survival sex. The Drop In Center is in the heart of its outreach area on Xenia Avenue. “Sidewalk Soldiers operates on a meager budget, because it can be a challenge rallying…

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…

Interactive Virtual Reality (VR) training teaches human trafficking prevention in Wyoming
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Interactive Virtual Reality (VR) training teaches human trafficking prevention in Wyoming

Uprising’s Terri Markham explains how she uses TRAPPED: A VR Detective Story to train everyone from children to legislators using an interactive virtual reality experience Radical Empathy Education Foundation and Uprising began their relationship early in 2022, when Terri Markham was looking for unique ways to teach people about human trafficking. We caught up with…

Erkut Sogut plans on exposing the ugly side of the beautiful game in his upcoming books – Daily Mail
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Erkut Sogut plans on exposing the ugly side of the beautiful game in his upcoming books – Daily Mail

Erkut Sogut has seen it all after 20 years in football representing the likes of Mesut Ozil… now he’s taking up the pen to expose the ugly side of the beautiful game from human trafficking to the nepotism at Europe’s top clubs threatening livelihoods Erkut Sogut wants to shine a light on issues often ignored…