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Biden admin to fund $4M study linking climate change to child labor, trafficking in Nepal, grant docs show
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Biden admin to fund $4M study linking climate change to child labor, trafficking in Nepal, grant docs show

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The Biden administration is funding a $4 million project to determine a connection between child labor and climate change in the South Asian country of Nepal. The U.S. Department of Labor on Monday announced the availability of $4 million in federal taxpayer dollars to be released through its Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) “to…

‘America’s Darkest Secret’: Sex Trafficking, Child Abuse and the Biden Administration
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‘America’s Darkest Secret’: Sex Trafficking, Child Abuse and the Biden Administration

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The criminal practice of trafficking and abusing hundreds of thousands of migrant children who cross the southern border is now, thanks to the open-border policy of the Biden Administration, apparently “normal” inside the US: “According to Customs and Border Protection, since January 2021 when Biden took the oath of office, there have been 5,118,661 encounters…

History of labor trafficking
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History of labor trafficking

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ARIZONA, La. (KTAL/KMSS) –   The kids ran circles around the old brick chimney, yelling “You’re it,” at one another until they tired and headed back to the front porch of the crumbling mansion—but if the children had known the truth about the chimney in the middle of that Claiborne Parish field, would they have used…

Q&A: California’s uninterrupted history of slavery
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Q&A: California’s uninterrupted history of slavery

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Slavery is often associated with the South. A new book shifts the narrative West. “California, a Slave State,” details 250 years of slavery and slave revolts in California. KPBS reporter Katie Hyson spoke with the book’s author, Jean Pfaelzer, a public historian and University of Delaware professor, about slavery throughout the state’s history, and how…

Was that made by Arizona prison labor? Prisoners make many everyday items
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Was that made by Arizona prison labor? Prisoners make many everyday items

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Your child is sleeping on a mattress made from prisoners’ clothes. At state universities, the bedding used in your kids’ dorm rooms comes from T-shirts and other clothing confiscated from prisoners during quarterly “contraband searches.” If a prisoner has too many T-shirts (they’re allowed just a few), or if the “D.O.C.” screenprint wears off, it’s…

Child Labor Is on the Rise as Republicans See an Answer to Labor Shortages
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Child Labor Is on the Rise as Republicans See an Answer to Labor Shortages

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A grim truth underlies U.S. industry: the appalling practice of child labor, widely perceived as an anachronism, is far from a thing of the sooty industrial past. U.S. consumers may have a hazy sense that children labor somewhere in foreign sweatshops to manufacture their goods — but such faraway tragedies are too easily forgotten at…

Advocates say big events like Super Bowl are good time to raise awareness of human trafficking
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Advocates say big events like Super Bowl are good time to raise awareness of human trafficking

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SILVER SPRING (OSV News) — The Feb. 12 Super Bowl, which kicks off at 6:30 p.m., “sadly serves as a danger zone for sex trafficking, labor trafficking and domestic violence,” said the executive director of the National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, based in the Washington suburb of Silver Spring. “An…

Human trafficking – Debt bondage – Forced labour – GLAA
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Human trafficking – Debt bondage – Forced labour – GLAA

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Human trafficking is the movement of a person from one place to another, within a country or across borders, into conditions of exploitation against their will. It consists of three basic parts: An action – the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of a person A means – the threat or use of force or…

6-Year-Old Finds Message Alleging Chinese Prison Labor In Box Of Christmas Cards
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6-Year-Old Finds Message Alleging Chinese Prison Labor In Box Of Christmas Cards

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Six-year-old Florence Widdicombe was writing notes on Christmas cards to her school friends in South London when she discovered one had already been written on. “We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qingpu prison China,” it said in English, written in all capital letters. “Forced to work against our will. Please help us and notify human…