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After more than a quarter-century of battling human trafficking in Canada, Joy Smith has seen and heard it all. She’s seen and heard enough. At the national launch of an awareness and education campaign two years in the making at Winnipeg Police Service headquarters on Wednesday, which is Human Trafficking Awareness Day, Smith implored people…
A Canadian youth advocacy group is raising awareness of the realities of human trafficking and how easily children and youth can be made victims in the digital age. Human trafficking operations can target people of all ages for various reasons, however the most common form in Canada is sexual exploitation, particularly among young women and…
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…
Author: Kearrin Sims, James Cook University Laos experienced compounding social and economic pressures in 2022. The headline news story of the year was the country’s dire external debt. 2022 was also significant as it marked the 10th anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Sombath Somphone — a community development worker who provided successful alternatives to…
Human trafficking is the second-largest criminal activity in the world and the fastest-growing. Awareness in the United States has increased, but human trafficking continues to go underreported due to its nature of isolation, the misconception of the definition of human trafficking and the lack of awareness of its signs and indicators. Human trafficking occurs when…
HOUGHTON — The goal of National Human Trafficking month is to raise public awareness of its prevalence. However, Michigan is not immune. According to the Upper Peninsula Human Trafficking Task Force (UPHTTF) website, human trafficking affects individuals across the world and right here in Michigan. It is commonly regarded as the second largest criminal enterprise…
The DCPCR’s early warning system has supported over 33,000 students chronically absent from schools to resume their formal education, a statement said. The early warning system, a collaboration between the Directorate of Education (DoE), the Delhi government and the Delhi Commission For Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) aims to protect the ‘at-risk’ children and bring…
THE CHALLENGE Ukraine has been a source, transit, and destination country for human trafficking since the early 1990s. Men, women, and children are trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and begging and sexual and other forms of exploitation. The main countries of destination for trafficked Ukrainians have been the Russian Federation, Poland, and Turkey,…
Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen on Thursday human trafficking is like a societal cancer that not only jeopardises the lives of individuals but also the prospects of their families and tarnish the image of the country. Bangladeshis are one of the top ten nationals who crossed the Mediterranean during 2014-2022, and such statistics goes against…
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said the Government is strengthening inter-agency cooperation to deal with unscrupulous recruitment agencies using unethical means to recruit desperate job seekers and ultimately subjecting them to human trafficking and exploitation. He said regional mechanisms to deal with issues of unfair and unethical recruitment in the Sadc region, particularly personnel from the health…
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