Stable

Stable: A group of victims under the control of a pimp.

Rotary Club seeks to raise awareness of human trafficking
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Rotary Club seeks to raise awareness of human trafficking

The Central Lakes Rotary Club, as well as the other Rotary Clubs in the Brainerd lakes area, have a mission to end human trafficking. To end human trafficking, the clubs say it must be prevented before it happens. According to a news release, the Rotary’s initiative focuses on: Raising awareness, Educating children, youths and families,…

Human Trafficking–A Deep Dive
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Human Trafficking–A Deep Dive

Human trafficking means the abduction, recruitment, or harbouring of men, women, and children through force or fraud for an act of slavery, forced sexual acts, surrogacy, and the harvest of human organs. It trafficking can occur trans-nationally as well as within the bounds of a single state. The history of human trafficking is as old…

Death in search of a better life – The Express Tribune
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Death in search of a better life – The Express Tribune

By Nabil Tahir | PUBLISHED March 12, 2023 KARACHI: Everyone in this world wants to live a good life. The meaning of a good life can mean different things to different people – it is subjective and can be influenced by personal values, beliefs, and experiences. But all are in search of a better life than…

Human trafficking trial: Migrant worker describes firm's intimidation tactics | London Free Press
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Human trafficking trial: Migrant worker describes firm's intimidation tactics | London Free Press

The migrant worker paused for a moment before answering if he was ever fearful of the man who headed the agency that brought him to London from Guatemala. A Spanish interpreter translated into English what the worker, 43, who can’t be identified under a court order, said in his native language about what Jose Callejas,…

Another guilty of trafficking women in cantina backroom – Department of Justice
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Another guilty of trafficking women in cantina backroom – Department of Justice

HOUSTON – A 30-year-old man who resided in Houston has pleaded guilty to several sex trafficking crimes and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani. Edgar Botello admitted to sex trafficking with force, fraud or coercion and conspiracy to do so as well as possession of child pornography. “Sex traffickers prey on…

Guest column/Human trafficking a problem we all should be aware of – The Herald Star
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Guest column/Human trafficking a problem we all should be aware of – The Herald Star

I was visiting my two youngest daughters when they lived in North Carolina a few years ago. As I walked through the local Wally-World I was approached by a young man. He was a stranger to me, and I have no idea to this day why he chose to strike up a conversation with me….

Human trafficking has many faces | News, Sports, Jobs – Morning Journal
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Human trafficking has many faces | News, Sports, Jobs – Morning Journal

I was visiting my two youngest daughters when they lived in North Carolina a few years ago. As I walked through the local Wally-World I was approached by a young man. He was a stranger to me, and I have no idea to this day why he chose to strike up a conversation with me….

Los Angeles Official Urges City to Investigate Trafficked Homeless Youth – The Epoch Times
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Los Angeles Official Urges City to Investigate Trafficked Homeless Youth – The Epoch Times

Los Angeles Councilwoman Traci Park recently urged city departments to take measures to investigate and provide updated data on human trafficking among homeless youth, citing a 2016 Loyola University New Orleans study that found 10 percent of homeless youth in L.A. are involved in trafficking. Park, who represents the city’s 11th District, from the west…

'I had nowhere to go': Labor traffickers are taking advantage of the Massachusetts housing crisis
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'I had nowhere to go': Labor traffickers are taking advantage of the Massachusetts housing crisis

For eight months, Julio worked as a landscaper in Western Massachusetts, hauling rocks, digging ditches and pulling weeds about 70 hours a week, earning less than two dollars an hour. At night, tired and hungry, the Guatemalan immigrant would be driven back to his employer’s suburban home, where he would head down to the basement…

Needle spiking haunts the land
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Needle spiking haunts the land

I have recently read dozens of news reports on the peril of ‘spiking’ whereby young women are rendered near-unconscious by perpetrators who spike their drinks with drugs or – more recently – literally inject the women via hypodermic needle with an incapacitating substance. One victim, who lost the ability to walk, talk, or even hold…